BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Nira Williams is a woman – an Army vet, now 25 –crushed by the nation she sought to serve.
But as the Pentagon‘s latest Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, makes clear, she is only one among hundreds of thousands. Back to …
“Standing” is a legal concept that may come into play as the high court hears arguments in March. And it may limit the effect the justices have on one of the fastest moving civil rights campaigns in U.S. history
Here’s a bit of news that may come as a surprise: the National Institute of Mental Health, analyzing survey data from more than 10,000 13- to 18-year-olds, has found that — contrary to popular belief — American teens are …
On the heels of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, a partnership spearheaded by the 92nd Street Y in New York City launched Giving Tuesday, turning the idea behind all those one-day consumer events on its head.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) helps alcoholics to become sober, but the program may affect men and women differently.
Lots of questions still need to be ironed out but recreational marijuana smoke now wafts legitimately through the air of the Evergreen State
BattlelandMilitary History
The attack on Pearl Harbor was brought home to most Americans in grainy black-and-white photographs. The photos galvanized the nation’s will, in LIFE magazine and elsewhere. The picture magazine also covered what happened in …
Last week the Secretary of the Navy dismissed the top officials at my school – one of the sadder events in its century-plus history.
How did this happen?
And more broadly, just what goes on at the Naval Postgraduate …
BattlelandPacific
CAMP SENDAI, Japan – For evidence that the U.S. rebalancing in Asia is more than rhetoric, take a look at the shoulder patches that U.S. troops are wearing at a major war exercise here this week: the 25th Infantry Division, 8th …
The “infamy” of December 7, 1941, is deeper than most Americans have ever imagined. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was almost certainly the result of a Soviet plot—“Operation Snow”—carried out by Harry Dexter …
Lt j.g. Marquette Leveque gets her “dolphins” from husband Luke making her one of the Navy’s first fully-qualified female submariners.
Who says Washington can’t get anything done?
BattlelandNavy
What is happening in the 7th Fleet, homeported in Japan, but which includes the entirety of the Pacific Ocean and the Far East — including naval personnel stationed in Guam, Singapore and South Korea — is just one of those …
