Not everyone is fit for the Army, but a loophole overlooks that.
Suicide
Posted inNewsroom
Answering the Call for Veterans and Military Families ‘Suffering in Silence’
Vets4Warriors, a mostly donations-based phone support program, seeks to end the stigma of vets getting help and the shame of asking for it.
Posted inReflections
Military Suicide a Different Kind of Plague
After two men from the same unit killed themselves, maddening questions about life take their place for those who remain.
Posted inReflections
My Battle Buddy Was Always Smiling Before Losing His War to Suicide
J.P. Lawrence thought he knew his happy-go-lucky friend from deployment until he learned that Belland had struggled with addiction and died by overdose.
Posted inReflections
Hold My Housing Until I’m Ok—”I Don’t Trust Myself”
David Chrisinger learned to treat a writer’s words with the proper care before publication after a student veteran was pushed to the brink of suicide.
Posted inReflections
Twelve Marines, Dress Blues, and Triple C’s
Scott Reel learned quickly that he could resist the Corps’ structure and suffer, or he could play the part of the good Marine, do his time, and then leave.
Posted inReflections
A Coast Guard Officer Runs Home After A Marathon Of Funerals
Sarah Holzhalb endured a marathon of funerals shortly after separating from the Coast Guard. All these years later, the month of March still sucks.
