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PTSD: Fort Hood Shooting Shines Spotlight

ABC News | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Illness, Fort Hood, Mental Health, Army, Troops, US Soldiers, Veterans PTSD, Crime, Ptsd, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Veterans, Living News

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...

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Veteran's Day: Your Stories and Memories

Matthew Palevsky/Zach Dorfman | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Marines, US Soldiers, Mental Health, Vietnam War, Veterans Day, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Iraq, Veterans, Politics News

In honor of Veteran's Day, the HuffPost asked readers to send in stories and videos about those who served and how war has impacted your life. You can...

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Missing US Soldier's Body Found In Afghan River

AP | ELENA BECATOROS | Posted 11.12.2009 | World

Read More: US Troops, Us Casualties, Afghanistan, US Soldiers, World News

KABUL — Military divers have found the body of a U.S. paratrooper who disappeared last week along with another soldier as the two tried to retri...

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Number of wounded troops in Afghanistan increasing

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan War, Military Wounded, Veterans Day, US Troops, Us Soldiers Afghanistans, US Soldiers, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Far from winding down, the numbers of U.S. soldiers coming home wounded have continued to swell. The problem is especially acute am...

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Is Ft. Hood Like Columbine? By Columbine's Dave Cullen

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 11.09.2009 | Home

Read More: Dylan Klebold, Islam, Ft. Hood, Columbine Book, Crime, Eric Harris, Ethnicity, Bullying, Terrorism, Fort Hood, Fort Hood Victims, 9/11, Virginia Tech, Guns, Colorado, Texas, Columbine, Religion, Soldiers, Military, Fort Hood Analysis, Psychiatrist, US Soldiers, Nidal Hasan, Ptsd, Home News

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...

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Obama Visits Wounded US Soldiers At Walter Reed

AP | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Soldiers, Walter Reed Hospital, Barack Obama Walter Reed, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama spent nearly two hours visiting wounded U.S. soldiers Friday afternoon. The president met with 19 soldiers ...

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Obama's Dover Salute Is an Iconic Image of His Presidency

Tom Matzzie | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Dover Air Force Base, Obama, US Soldiers, Iraq, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Dover Photographs, Iraq War Funerals, Obama Dover, Obama Salute, Politics News
Tom Matzzie

Obama didn't have to go to Dover. Bush never went we're told. He could've stayed at the White House and kept some distance from the war. But instead he put himself firmly in front as commander in chief.

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The Life And Death Of Army Spec. Kevin O. Hill

thebrooklynink.com | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Warwire, Army, US Soldiers, Military Deaths, Afghanistan, Brooklyn, War Wire, Kevin Hill, Mara Zepeda, New York News

The minute Olsen Hill saw the uniforms at his door, he knew. He had served in the military. No words were necessary. His son, Kevin O. Hill, was de...

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Reflections on Suicide

Christopher Lukas | Posted 10.12.2009 | Books

Read More: Iraq PTSD, US Marines, Survivor, Afghanistan, General Mark Graham, Army Suicide, US Soldiers, War, Suicide, Iraq, Ptsd, Suicide Prevention, US Army, War on Terror, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Books News
Christopher Lukas

The rate of death by suicide in the armed forces is increasing at alarming rates. Death is terrible, no matter how it comes. But death by suicide leaves those left behind, asking Why? How?

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Afghan War: 8th Anniversary Photo Retrospective

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

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Wednesday marks the eighth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. The notable date comes as the United States fiercely debates the future of...

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iPods In Iraq: Soldiers' MP3s An Instrument Of War

guardian.co.uk | Posted 09.29.2009 | Technology

Read More: Metallica, Ipod, Eminem, Gulf War, US Soldiers, Ipod Iraq, Iraq, Iraq Soldiers, Afghanistan War, mp3, Iraq War, Apple, Afghanistan-Soldiers, Music War, US Soldiers Iraq, Technology News

Professor Pieslak is a music theorist at the City College of New York. Over the past few years he has interviewed US soldiers about the music they lis...

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Mass Therapy for Depressed Soldiers

Thomas Scheff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Depression, Therapy, US Soldiers, Politics News
Thomas Scheff

My research proposes two basic causes of depression: Hidden emotions, and no secure bond with another person. These ideas lead to a practical therapy for depression that might be effective for the Army.

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Gut Feelings: Soldiers Make Good Use Of Intuition

nytimes.com | Benedict Carey | Posted 08.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Soldiers, Battle, US Soldiers, Brain, Iraq War, Intuition, Psychology, Battle Intuition, The Inner Life, Living News

The sight was not that unusual, at least not for Mosul, Iraq, on a summer morning: a car parked on the sidewalk, facing opposite traffic, its windows ...

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Gates and Trucks

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Dod, Marines, Public Defender, Gates, Pennsylvania, Department of Defense, US Soldiers, Robert Gates, Afghanistan, M-Atvs, Mraps, Bob Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

For once, American manufacturers are producing the best weapons ahead of schedule, and will save lives of men who would die without them.

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US Stops Giving Militant Death Tolls In Afghanistan

AFP | Posted 08.25.2009 | World

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The US military in Afghanistan has stopped releasing figures showing how many militants have been killed in fighting with US-led forces, officials sai...

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Taliban Video Shows Captive US soldier: AP sources

AP | PAMELA HESS and LOLITA BALDOR | Posted 08.18.2009 | World

Read More: American Soldiers, Taliban, War in Afghanistan, Defense Department, War on Terror, US Soldiers, World News

WASHINGTON — The American soldier who went missing June 30 from his base in eastern Afghanistan and was later confirmed to have been captured, a...

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Forget Michael Jackson, Forget Mark Sanford, Remember This

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

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Mark Goulston, M.D.

Pass this message on so that all may know the price of freedom

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Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military

Dahr Jamail | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Soldiers, US Soldiers, Awol, Soldier Suicides, Courage to Resist, Iraq, Iraq Soldiers, Politics News
Dahr Jamail

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.

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Tragedy and Compassion in Iraq

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

Read More: Sectarian Tension Iraq, Iraq War, Iraq Surge, Redeployment, Shia-Sunni-Alliance, US Soldiers, Gulf War, Iraq-Sectarian-Violence, Us-Iraq Security Agreement, Iraq Sofa, Shia, Iraq, Sectarian Violence, Iraq Security Iraq Violence, Iraq Withdrawal, Iraq Pullout, World News
Firas Al-Atraqchi

The fireworks fired into the air and the pomp and circumstance of so-called Sovereignty Day cannot mask the grief felt by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who lost loved ones in the past six years.

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Kirkuk Bomb Kills Dozens As Iraq Celebrates US Troop Withdrawal

AP | HAMZA HENDAWI | Posted 07.31.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — Not a single American soldier was in sight. Gone, too, were the American helicopters whose buzz has for years defined Baghdad's backgr...

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Afghanistan War: 2 US Troops Killed By Roadside Bomb

AP | NOOR KHAN | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, US Troops, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan US Troops, US Troops in Afghanistan, Us Troops Killed, Roadside Bomb, US Soldiers, Us Soldiers Afghanistan, US Soldiers Killed, US Soldiers in Afghanistan, World News

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan killed two U.S. troops Friday, the U.S. military said. The explosion occu...

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Paging Team America: Who Will Save Laura & Euna?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, Stephen Colbert, Public Plan Trigger, Congress, US Soldiers, Blaise Nutter, Public Option, Iraq War, Wilshire and Washington, Mandates, Ted Johnson, Teresa Valdez Klein, Maegan Carberry, Health Care, Politics News
Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

When two American journalists are sent to prison in a foreign country, shouldn't the news organization at least support them and assuage public outrage by acknowledging and covering the situation on its own site?

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US Soldier In Iraq Killed By Grenade

AP | Posted 07.05.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, US Soldiers, US Soldiers Iraq, US Soldiers Killed, Us Soldier, Kirkuk, War Wire, Iraq War Wire, World News

BAGHDAD — The U.S. military says an American soldier was killed in a grenade attack in northern Iraq. A statement says the Multi-National Divis...

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Breaking News in San Diego: The Marines are Looking for A Few Good Men

Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Autistic, Autism, Military, Camp Pendelton, Pvt. Joshua D. Fry, Marine Corps, Recruiting, San Diego, Court-Martial, Military Recruiting, US Soldiers, Iraq, Living News
Chantal Sicile-Kira

My son - who is non-verbal and severely impacted by autism - has been heavily recruited by the military.

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Lessons Learned

Cheryl Saban | Posted 06.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Iraq War, Vietnam, US Soldiers, Memorial Day, Veterans, Living News
Cheryl Saban

This weekend I'll bow my head and offer my respect, admiration, and gratitude to our service men and women, past, present, and future. And as a peacenik, I will also be praying that one day, we'll find another way to resolve our differences.

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