Psychiatrist Honored for Treating Spec Ops Troops A Navy psychiatrist was presented the U.S. Special Operations Command Patriot Award for treating 68 Special Forces operators.
Mental Health Issues Accounted for One-Third of Military Medevacs from Middle East in 2020 Among the evacuations, 27%, or 328, were for mental health conditions, and 19% were for non-battlefield injuries.
Since 9/11, Suicide Has Claimed Four Times More Military Lives Than Combat A study estimates that 30,177 troops and veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their own lives over the...
PTSD Myths Persist in the Military Community, New Survey Finds A poll found that members of the military community are twice as likely as civilians to believe persons with PTSD are violent...
Navy Needs More Mental Health Specialists, Top Civilian Says Sailors would get easier access to mental health providers in their own units under a new plan from Acting Navy Secretary...
Free Health Care for All Troops Is Key Priority, National Guard General Tells Congress Lack of easy access to mental health services may be compounding the suicide issue in the National Guard, its top officer...
Why We Need Mental Health Providers Who Understand the Military Should every counselor who works with military families be required to have first-hand experience of military life?
Depressed? 8 Resources for Military Spouses Finding resources to help you or your friends who are suffering from depression is not something to be ashamed of. Here are 8...
Military Deaths by Suicide Jumped 25% at End of 2020 The number of deaths by suicide among military service members increased alarmingly in the fourth quarter of 2020, according...
Retired Two-Star Opens Up About Mental Health Crisis That Ended His Career Army Maj. Gen. Gregg Martin was at the top of his game until an undiagnosed bipolar disorder cost him his 36-year career.
How the Government Shutdown Impacts Veterans and the VA While most vets won't be impacted by the ongoing government shutdown, concerns may ramp up the longer it persists.
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration from Sending National Guard Troops to Oregon A federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration...
As Hegseth Orders Changes to the Pentagon Watchdog, Advocates Say It Will Silence Complaints Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accused the independent watchdog for the Pentagon of being “weaponized” and says he’s...
