Veterans Still Waiting For GI Bill Payments, Colleges Unpaid
WASHINGTON — Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school...
WASHINGTON — Universities and colleges are still waiting for tuition payments for thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who attended school...
Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact
Have something to say to a special someone serving abroad or to our U.S. military in general? NBC is collecting letters, photos and video submissions ...
AP | SUE MANNING | Posted 12.17.2009 | Impact
LOS ANGELES — For several years, Jude Stringfellow and her Lab-chow mix have toured the country with a simple message: Faith walks. Born withou...
Jon Soltz | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics
The Army reported that suicides are yet again at an all time high. This isn't to say every soldier deployed frequently and for long periods will kill him or herself. But there's a "significant link" for many of those who do.
AP | Posted 12.10.2009 | World
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Gunmen killed a university student in the deadly Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, prosecutors said Wednesday. Chih...
Don McNay | Posted 12.08.2009 | Business
America ships soldiers off to Afghanistan and Iraq for free. If you come back in a body bag, they ship that back for free, too. However, we make families who send soldiers socks, food and underwear pay shipping costs.
AP | Posted 12.05.2009 | World
MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 13 people were killed Friday in shootouts in northern Mexico between Mexican troops and gunmen, authorities said. ...
Ryan McDermott | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics
Ordering the drafting of an implementation plan would be a tangible step forward in the right direction -- the President could make such an order today.
AP | BEN DOBBIN | Posted 12.03.2009 | New York
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A Fort Drum soldier was arrested at a hotel in southern Ohio early Wednesday on a warrant charging him in the stabbing deaths ...
David Quigg | Posted 11.24.2009 | Media
Citizen journalists must not give in to the urge to un-take a photo, to click delete and banish the evidence for the parts of a story that shame them, their cause, their friends, their country, their species.
AP | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week whe...
AP | MIKE BAKER | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
RALEIGH, N.C. — The U.S. Army will allow the media limited coverage of Sarah Palin's appearance at Fort Bragg, but will bar reporters from inter...
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...
ABC News | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
Rates of PTSD, which may or may not have played a role in Hasan's case, along with traumatic brain injuries, are soaring, and are a leading cause of s...
David A. Love | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
As a repository for violence, the military is not dealing with untreated mental illness among its ranks. The fact that Hasan was a mental health professional underscores the problem.
Brian Ross | Posted 11.11.2009 | Media
When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."
William Astore | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
On this Veteran's Day, what if we began to measure our national success and power not by our military arsenal or number of recruits, but rather by the very opposite of that?
Washington Post | Dana Priest | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
The Army psychiatrist believed to have killed 13 people at Fort Hood warned a roomful of senior Army physicians a year and a half ago that to avoid "a...
Brian Levin, J.D. | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
The horrific shooting at Fort Hood, allegedly by Nidal Malik Hasan, a disgruntled yet devout Army psychiatrist, puts the spotlight back on the lone-wolf offender who sits at the crossroads of crime, terrorism and mental distress.
CO. Independent | CO Independent | Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Friday afternoon KHOW talk-radio host Peter Boyles, referring to the shooting-spree murder of 12 soldiers and 1 civilian at Fort Hood in Texas ...
Jon Soltz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Media
FOX and Friends hosts twice implied on their show that this is some kind of Muslim problem. There are thousands of American Muslims serving in the military right now, and many have given their lives.
Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
In the wake of the massacre there will be a tendency to say one man snapped. The truth is anyone could have snapped -- and we need to de-stigmatize PTSD and mental health before someone else does.
Allen McDuffee | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
If you want to draw attention to a problem, try hiding it. That's the strategy of several military bases when it comes to the H1N1 vaccine.
Wall Street Journal | By YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
The Army's top generals worry that surging tens of thousands more troops into Afghanistan could increase the strain felt by many military personnel af...
Jon Soltz | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Here's an idea: Let's just keep our best troops, no matter what their background or orientation. Momentum is picking up in Congress behind that notion, but we still need the President to make his move.
AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 12.22.2009 | Politics