BattlelandSuicide
The 4th Annual Department of Defense-VA suicide-prevention conference was a big deal here in the capital last week, with three days of presentations by top officials from the Pentagon and the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services. I put together the first military suicide-prevention conference, back in 2002. A …
BattlelandMilitary Mental Health
Battleland contributor Bingham Jamison, a Marine who saw action in Iraq and came home the worse for wear, is the subject of a new video by Veterans Healing Initiative. That’s a nonprofit group dedicated to getting veterans treatment for substance abuse and PTSD. “VHI offers support to veterans from all conflicts, of all ages, men and …
BattlelandDon't Ask Don't Tell
The top enlisted sailor aboard a nuclear submarine was fired in March for not taking action against crew members who spent months harassing a fellow sailor they suspected of being gay. It marks the first known case of alleged anti-gay abuse since the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” last September, which allowed openly gay men and …
BattlelandClose-up
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines from around the world, and the home front.
BattlelandTerrorism
Virginians living just outside of Washington, D.C., are up in arms because of the constant drone of 230 high-velocity fans atop an unmarked office building on the fringe of their neighborhood. The CIA originally occupied the three-story building, but the spies left, only to be replaced by the FBI.
The FBI’s landlord gutted the …
BattlelandCyber
The wily computer code has died, only weeks after the New York Times told us, not amid its birth announcements, that it was the bastard child of the U.S. and Israel.
Designed to screw up Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, the software – which ultimately made its way into 130,000 computers around the world – contained a couple of …
BattlelandMilitary Spending
Battleland gets ticked off when people working for him can’t answer straight-forward questions about how much of his and other taxpayers’ money is paying for something.
Take the Defense Department’s Uniformed Services …
BattlelandMilitary Benefits
OK – Battleland admits it. The Quadrennial Reviews of Military Compensation make for tough, dry reading, but we like them, anyway. Kind of like GAO reports, but without the violence and sex. The Pentagon issued its 11th edition Thursday. Once again, it makes clear our troops are paid fairly for their sacrifices:
Military compensation
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BattlelandMarines
The Marines are spending $10 million on a squad battle course down at Camp Lejeune. When you read Thursday’s contract announcement, it becomes clear pretty quickly that a squad battle course isn’t simply a battlefield …
BattlelandAfghanistan
OK…these emails come into Battleland’s inbox at all hours of the day and night. This latest has just arrived, shortly after 9 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, Thursday, June 21, 2012.
We have read each one, for more than 10 …
BattlelandSpecial Operations
BattlelandPacific
TOKYO – For the first time ever, warships from the United States and its two closest Asian allies have come together in a joint military training exercise. But if the Americans can just keep the South Koreans and Japanese from …
