Wednesday's Wall Street Journal reports on a longstanding White House policy that Presidents do not send condolence letters to families of U.S. soldie...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Soldier suicides this year are almost sure to top last year's grim totals, but a recent decline in the pace of such incidents could...
Amy Goodman | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Gregg Keesling said that when he and his wife went to Dover Air Force Base to greet their son's coffin, a master sergeant said: "I'm greeting a suicide body almost every day. There's something going on."
Dr. Tian Dayton | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Soldiers in Iraq face deployment after deployment without rest or time for recovery. They suffer from PTSD and depression.
Dahr Jamail | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics
In addition to small numbers of outright public refusals to deploy or redeploy, troops are going absent without official leave (AWOL) between deployments, and actual desertions may once again be on the rise.
Joe Peyronnin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Tragically, the suicide rate among U.S. Army soldiers increased last month. In fact, Army suicides are up significantly over the previous month, and they are now on a record pace for the year.
Colleen Perry | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics
VA docs are diagnosing PTSD as Adjustment Disorder instead. That's like saying the soldier who shot up his comrades at an Iraqi mental health clinic was just having a bad day.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.11.2009 | Politics
The slaughter of five comrades by a "stressed out" U.S. soldier today in Baghdad is a true tragedy -- but should not come as a shock.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
What caused Alyssa Peterson to put a bullet in her head in September 2003 after just a few weeks in Iraq? And why were the press and the public not told about it?
Kayla Williams | Posted 04.06.2009 | Living
I went into the psychiatrist's office and tried to explain my fears -- that I would never get better, never readjust, never make it in the civilian world.
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Soldier suicides this year could surpass the record rate of last year, Army officials said Thursday, urging military leaders at all...
Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics