On June 23, Sean Webster's body was found in an isolated part of his base. The Naval Criminal Investigate Service is probing the death as a "probable" suicide.
Mona Ackerman | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
Q: My niece just committed suicide. She is the 20-year-old daughter of my older sister. Needless to say, my sister is devastated and doesn't unders...
AP | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics
The Supreme Court's landmark ruling on gun ownership last week focused on citizens' ability to defend themselves from intruders in their homes. But re...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics
"I'm not going back to Iraq," Army Sgt. Benjamin Miller, 24, told friends back home in Minnesota. And, indeed, he is not. Three days ago, he was buri...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics
Another young U.S. soldier, this one age 19, has apparently killed himself in Iraq, and at least two other reports of "noncombat" deaths in the past week may fall in the same category.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama showed again today that he is determined to get and keep the Iraq vet vote and the ballots of those who care about them.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
Jeffrey McKinney's family believes that if his chain of command had paid closer attention to the symptoms, his death might have been avoided.
Stamford Advocate | Jeff Morganteen | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business
View the eBay listing for Samuel Israel III's business card. An eBay seller is looking to cash in on the saga of Samuel Israel, the 48-year-old hedge...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics
An issue I have been writing about for years has finally hit center stage -- the disturbing rate of PTSD among veterans, the surging suicide epidemic and new revelations about the high number of soldiers on meds.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics
Unlike most of the cases of mysterious non-hostile deaths that I have chronicled, this one will likely continue to grab some national attention.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
The roll call of Iraq and Afghanistan vets who have committed suicide (which I have been chronicling for years) continues to grow in an utterly distur...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics
In recent months, the issue of suicides among troops in Iraq, and returnees at home, has -- after long being ignored -- earned wide attention in the U...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics
As press reports proliferate concerning Iraq vet suicides, officials are encouraging troops to get help, even if they go to civilian therapists and don't report it to the military.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics
Family members say Chad Oligschlaeger, age 21, was taking eight different types of medications to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder after serving two tours in Iraq.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Last week in this space I wrote about yet another Iraq vet suicide - in the extreme. This poor fellow, named Travis Twiggs, ended up shooting himsel...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics
He loved his country so much he named his son America. And this week he killed himself and his brother after a long police chase in Arizona.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics
A V.A. spokeswoman says the department now has more than 17,000 mental health workers -- and needs to hire 3,700 more, making the VA the largest mental health provider in the nation.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.10.2008 | Politics
A week of hearings on the official cover-up of the alarming spike in suicides among veterans of the Iraq war has ended with both the Veterans Affairs chief and the V.A. mental health director still holding their jobs.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
As the scandal of suicide attempts by Iraq veterans expands -- in the face of VA denials -- another horrific case has emerged, once again only gaining attention because of a local newspaper.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
I don't know yet how Christy died, but this comes on the heels of a Veterans Administration cover-up of the shockingly high number of suicide attempts by vets.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
As I have posted here previously -- numerous times -- I have followed the scourge of U.S. soldier suicides ever since the start of the Iraq war more t...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics
In what has become a regular ritual, a local newspaper has reported the death of a U.S. soldier in Iraq -- officially described by the military as a "...
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics
Word emerged yesterday of another mysterious, non-hostile fatality in Iraq. His name is Jeremiah Hughes.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
The scourge of suicides among American troops in Iraq is a serious and seriously underreported problem.
Greg Mitchell | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
She is still officially listed among the "nonhostile -- accident" victims. So the mystery remains.
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Greg Mitchell | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics