Conservative America's fears are unfounded. As long as you can shoot straight -- or speak Arabic or Pashto -- it's shouldn't matter whether or not you are straight.
Deb Jospin | Posted 04.15.2009 | Living
This time last year, college seniors across the country were madly interviewing for jobs on Wall Street, evaluating offers that included unbelievable salaries and beautiful offices. What a difference a year makes.
AP | ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Army fired 11 soldiers in January for violating the military's policy that gay service members must keep their sexuality hidden...
Justin Callaway | Posted 04.11.2009 | Entertainment
Forget all of the violent video game psycho-babble and nanny state talk, let's just teach the kids how to become scalpel-wielding, precision self-defenders.
Norman Bussel | Posted 03.13.2009 | World
Survivor guilt is a problem for many combat veterans returning from Iraq. It is rare for someone deployed there to complete a combat tour without losing a friend.
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Army is investigating an unexplained and stunning spike in suicides in January. The count is likely to surpass the number of co...
Hal Donahue | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Sgt. Ryan Maseth, a highly decorated Army ranger, stepped into the community shower of his Iraq building, reached out to turn on the water and died, a victim of electrocution.
R. B. Stuart | Posted 03.06.2009 | Living
Although SSG. Steven Ochs seemed impenetrable, he could not sidestep the invisible weapon that would course through his bloodstream five months after his third tour ended.
Mike Papantonio | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics
The congressmen and advocacy groups that are trying to shut Blackwater down are being branded as un-American, unpatriotic liberals by the Prince family loyalists.
CNN | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
President Obama stopped by the Commander In Chief Ball this evening, which was thrown for military service personnel. After he finished his speech h...
Helen Benedict | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics
Iraq War veterans seem to be killing and hurting themselves and others more than veterans of any other war in American history.
AP | SUSANNE M. SCHAFER | Posted 02.12.2009 | Living
FORT JACKSON, S.C. — The Army has been dismissing so many overweight applicants that its top recruiter, trying to keep troop numbers up in warti...
S.D. Liddick | Posted 02.11.2009 | World
The Syrian Desert is cold in December. I knew from similar country in Southern California and Nevada it would be like this. But I wasn't prepare...
Brandon Friedman | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
The Army screwed up and then they did what leaders and professionals do: They stepped up and took responsibility. Imagine if the Bush administration ever had the guts to show such leadership.
Christian Science Monitor | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics
The waistlines of America's youth are expanding, shrinking the pool of those eligible to join the US military. But an Army program is giving overweigh...
Times Online | Adam Sage | Posted 01.19.2009 | World
The six volunteers struggled to make their beds on their first night at the regiment and struggled even more to get out of them at 6.30am the followin...
Sophie Brickman | Posted 01.07.2009 | Style
Years ago, my father let it slip that his cousin had invented the powdered egg in the late 1930s, thereby contributing the war effort. Aha! A fellow Brickman inventor and culinary whizz!
Washington Times | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homos...
Salon | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
Last month, Salon ran an article that featured video of an American tank appearing to fire on American troops, despite the army's denials regarding th...
Sean Gilfillan | Posted 12.12.2008 | Entertainment
Just as our artists have given us great music to listen to since my return from Iraq, we are now using this music to help the hundreds of thousands of troops who face a host of struggles upon returning home.
VetVoice | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Well that didn't take long. Polls across America had been closed for less than 24 hours and Army Career Counselors were already exploiting Barack Oba...
Sean Gilfillan | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
The one thing that all US Army personnel have in common is their choice to wear the uniform and volunteer to serve the nation, regardless of who is in charge and regardless of if they agree.
Brandon Friedman | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics
Polls across America had been closed for less than 24 hours and Army Career Counselors were already exploiting Obama's victory in an effort to recruit former soldiers back into units.
Matt Mendelsohn | Posted 11.24.2008 | Entertainment
Remember the war in Iraq? Sadly, I didn't think so. Between all the truly grave dangers facing our country -- the economic crisis, the election, Sara...
Vivian Gembara | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics
The ugly issue of the misconduct of some U.S. troops in a war zone must be addressed before sending more soldiers and Marines into Afghanistan.
Brandon Friedman | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics