Army Mom Confined To Base After Skipping Deployment To Care For Baby
Single-mother Alexis Hutchinson refused to deploy to Afghanistan on Nov. 5, she said, because she didn't have anyone to take care of her infant son. N...
Single-mother Alexis Hutchinson refused to deploy to Afghanistan on Nov. 5, she said, because she didn't have anyone to take care of her infant son. N...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.16.2009 | World
Development and humanitarian assistance can no longer be an afterthought; they must be central to any strategy the U.S. government puts forward in Afghanistan.
HuffPost | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact
Veterans Day was last week, but our troops are still in harm's way, with many more likely on their way overseas. Fortunately, efforts continue to sup...
Posted 11.13.2009 | Impact
On Veterans Day, First Lady Michelle Obama announced the launch of Mission Serve, a network that links veterans to community service groups, calling u...
AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
WASHINGTON — Powerful scans are letting doctors watch just how the brain changes in veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and concussion-...
Michael Shaw | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media
Azam Nizamuddin | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
In the Ft. Hood aftermath, we shouldn't allow right-wing hooliganism, wherever it stems from, to dictate how we view tragedies and interpret human beings with cultures and religions separate from our own.
Dana Ullman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
Our medical thinking has become totally militaristic. It is not just happenstance that doctors proudly assert that they seek to attack illness, combat disease, kill infective agents, and create a war on cancer.
AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Home
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A Palm Springs man who was never in the military has been charged with wearing the Navy's highest honor. Federal prosecu...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact
While embedded with Marines during the invasion of Iraq, journalist Mercedes Gallego was cautioned that it was not safe to be alone. The reason, the servicewomen explained, was fear of being raped.
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
I present the transcript of President Obama's remarks at yesterday's memorial service for those killed in the tragedy at Fort Hood in Texas.
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.
Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
Looking for additional ways to show your gratitude to the men and women serving our country on Veteran's Day? Donate your unused frequent flier miles ...
AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.11.2009 | Impact
WASHINGTON — Dozens of volunteers and passers-by are stopping by an American Red Cross building on Veterans Day to sign holiday greetings cards ...
Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Golden Corral will be holding its 9th annual Military Appreciation Monday dinner on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. in all Golden Corral r...
Posted 11.11.2009 | Home
Veteran's Day Quotes are not hard to come by, but here's a compilation of some of the best and most famous in one place. "Freedom is never free." -...
BJ Gallagher | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
The biggest price I paid, along with other military kids, was enormous anxiety. For you see, Death was always lurking around in the background, but no one ever talked about it.
Joanne Doroshow | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The Feres doctrine prevents military personnel from suing over injuries "incident to military service." That has come to mean not just combat-related injuries but also harm caused by medical negligence in U.S. military hospitals.
Posted 11.10.2009 | Home
Today, November 10, the United States Marine Corps celebrates its 234th birthday, and social media is commemorating the historic date. The official...
Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living
A well trained psychiatrist or psychologist is not driven into violent frenzy by dealing with the trauma of soldiers, nor do they acquire those soldiers' emotional wounds vicariously.
Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home
My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...
McClatchy | Jonathan S. Landay | Posted 11.07.2009 | World
President Barack Obama is nearing a decision to send more than 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan next year, but he may not announce it unti...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics
The pack of shrill rightist bloggers and talk radio chatterers jumped all over the shooting and gleefully fanned anti-Muslim passions. It didn't take much to get the anti-Muslim hate juices flowing.
Kamran Pasha | Posted 11.06.2009 | World
I spoke today with a friend who is a Muslim soldier stationed at Fort Hood. He and Hasan prayed side-by-side at the mosque the morning of the massacre. He agreed to share his story with me if I granted him anonymity.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
Nidal Malik Hasan is a frightening example of the army's miserable failure to get a handle on the nightmare stress-related violence that has claimed so many of its own.
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics