This Soldier Was Born into a Life of Crime. Somehow, He Became a Medal of Honor Recipient. Charles Barger and his assistant automatic rifle gunner, Jesse Funk, received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the...
A Mississippi Monkey Sanctuary Helps Veterans with PTSD Find Peace In the embrace of a cheerfully chittering spider monkey named Louie, an Army veteran who grappled for decades with post...
Burn Pit Exposure Linked to Higher Rates of Mental Health Disorders, Brain Injury A new study also confirms earlier research on a connection between burn pit exposure and suicide.
A Navy Veteran Is Determined to Find His Own Way Through PTSD—Without VA Each appointment with VA was another nail sealing the coffin shut, suffocating any hope that they could help me.
Train Vets to Treat Vets - Program Becomes Law in MA Massachusetts' "Train Vets to Treat Vets" program is a behavioral health career development program for returning veterans.
Veterans with Mental Health Conditions Face Challenges Getting Care Outside VA, Study Finds New research says that veterans with mental health conditions report worse overall experiences with community care than vets...
How ‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ Reflects its Director’s Real-Life Military Experiences "My Dead Friend Zoe" -- now available on several streaming services -- is inspired by the experiences of director and co...
How Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Can Help Trauma Patients If you have experienced trauma and aren't achieving the desired outcomes with your current treatment, you might consider...
'My Dead Friend Zoe' Delivers an Eye-Opening Message for Military Veterans In "My Dead Friend Zoe," a female Afghanistan veteran -- engaged in a mysterious relationship with a wise-cracking (and dead)...
'The Dog Chooses the Human.' He Is the Anchor that Brings Me Back from the Demons of War According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, 16% of Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans suffer from post-traumatic stress...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
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...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
