This weekend, relatives of many of the U.S. troops who have killed themselves in the suicide epidemic gripping the American military are gathering in San Diego. They’re coming together to support one another and figure out how to move on with life. It’s the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors’ National Military Suicide Survivor …
Army
$8.5 Billion
“My Daughter Was Scared of Me”
Army Major Andrew March has pulled three combat tours – a pair in Iraq and his most recent, in 2010 and 2011, in Afghanistan. In this recently-posted June interview with the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, March details his role keeping aircraft flying – and spying – as part of Task Force Odin.
The MRAP: Brilliant Buy, or Billions Wasted?
A Visit With General Dana Pittard
I just returned home from my third trip to Fort Bliss in two months. I made the first two trips so that I could learn about the installation and the leadership’s approach to preventing soldier suicide. On this most recent visit …
Return to Pur Chaman
The Trust Deficit
COMBAT OUTPOST GARDA, WARDAK PROVINCE — Increasingly, coalition troops feel they cannot trust the Afghan soldiers and police with whom they live and serve. The increasing toll of “green-on-blue” killings drives a wedge of …
The Lariam Mystery Continues
In March 2012, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales allegedly massacred 16 Afghan villagers. I posted a blog then, wondering if he could have been on mefloquine (Lariam), an anti-malarial agent.
The silence from the Defense …
$2.6 million
For Gold Star Mothers, a War Without End
Gold Star Mothers are women who have literally borne the troops that have made the ultimate sacrifice.
“My Husband is a True American Hero”
My husband, Staff Sergeant Jeremy Breece, is a True American Hero.
In 2008, my husband and I thought it would be best that I separate from the Air Force because of two reasons. One being I was pregnant and two, my husband had …
Standing Guardian Angel
