Media and official reports on prevalence rates of military war stress injury have focused almost exclusively on escalating rates of well-known war stress injuries such as PTSD, depression, generalized anxiety, substance abuse, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the true impact from war trauma cannot be reduced to a handful of psychiatric diagnoses, as some [...]
When I first began to develop EMDR therapy back in 1987, I experimented with everyone who was willing to volunteer. One of the things I found very interesting was that often the problem they were concentrating on would spontaneously connect in their minds to earlier memories that were related in some way. That’s how I [...]
Many veterans never dreamed of needing help coping with life following combat deployments. While the impact of surviving in a combat zone has left many veterans seeking help in overcoming posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there have been significant advances in treatment. Read more: PTSD Veterans, War Veterans, Ptsd for Veterans, Mental Health, Military, Veterans With [...]
Political appointees serving as chief operating officers at five departments named their top accomplishments at a panel hosted by the nonprofit National Academy of Public Administration on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama today continued his commitment to improving employment among veterans by introducing an initiative to hire them as the country’s first responders.
The latest Quarterly and Semiannual Report of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction was released January 30. What follows are relevant excerpts of some of the more noteworthy contractor related activities. Read more: Fraud, Oversight, Private Military Contractor, Iraq, State Department, Sigir, Business News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military Family News [...]
The media coverage on Iran is mirroring the coverage in the lead-up to the Iraq war: grand claims about a smoking gun that doesn’t exist. Read more: Iran, Iraq, Iaea, Peace, Dennis Kucinich, Weapons of Mass Destruction, War, Media News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military Family News Veterans News
Permitting the United States to fly drones wherever it wants is the price a country may have to pay for friendship with the United States. Some countries may think that price too high. Read more: Surveillance, Spying, Air Space, War in Iraq, Iraq-Drones, US Drones, World News Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military [...]
Mitt Romney just made it clear: While the president will begin to transition us out of Afghanistan, a President Mitt Romney would keep us there in an open-ended commitment. Read more: GI Bill, Iraq War, Counterterrorism, Afghanistan Surge, Afghanistan, Veterans Care, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Counterinsurgency, Veterans, Afghanistan War, Politics News
HONOLULU — A second Marine is going to trial for allegedly hazing a fellow Marine who later fatally shot himself in Afghanistan. Iraq news Military News Military Breaking News Military Family News Veterans News
