TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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Battleland Diary, March 10-16
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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Army Policy: Deferring Mental-Health Diagnoses in War Zones
Some Army mental-health professionals say official instructions urging them to avoid declaring a soldier mentally ill in war zones keeps too many such ailing troops in combat. It’s part of a stretched Army’s quest to keep …
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Battleland Diary, March 3-9
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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Battleland Diary, Feb. 18-24
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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PTSD…And Cash
The Army removed Colonel Dallas Homas, commander of Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state, on Tuesday from his post because of an investigation into whether post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnoses were reversed …
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Battleland Diary, Feb. 11-17
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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A Daughter’s Plea: “Daddy, Please Don’t Leave…”
The other day I was sitting in my office when my 3-year-old daughter came running in. She was sobbing, unable to catch her breath or tell me what was wrong. Her face flush, with red circles emanating from her swollen eyes, she was inconsolable. In tow came my wife, somber-faced and also on the verge of tears. “What’s wrong?” …
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Battleland Diary, Jan. 28-Feb. 03
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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Battleland Diary, Jan. 21-27
TIME’s photo editors bring you the best pictures from the front lines and home.
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The Winter Set Up: Counter-Insurgency in Kandahar
The fighting season in Afghanistan is in full swing, and the early reports indicate this one will be tough. After last year’s surge, American units, and the Afghan Army and police they’re partnered with, will be fighting to hold the areas they paid for dearly a year ago. One of the key provinces will be Kandahar.
In the months …
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Up On the Net
Before I introduce myself, I want to thank all of the readers of this column for your kind words about my first post. David Self was a wonderful person and a dedicated NCO. Men and women like him are the backbone of our armed forces; they do the tough business in training and in combat. We lose them far too often and it’s always …
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For God and Country
Wait, the chaplains are in the news… again? Military chaplains never make the headlines. Weird!
According to a letter written on Monday by retired chaplains and religious agencies to the services chiefs of chaplains, gays getting married in base chapels “creates an environment that is increasingly hostile to many chaplains – …