Thousands of veterans seeking help for the first time for mental health problems are waiting longer than the government’s goal of counseling them within two weeks, Department of Veterans Affairs data show. At a time when an estimated 22 veterans commit suicide daily, the agency in 2013 failed to schedule a third of new mental […]
The United States has likely reached a grim but historic milestone in the war on terror: 1 million veterans injured from the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. But you haven’t heard this reported anywhere else. Why? Because the government is no longer sharing this information with the public. All that can be said with any […]
EDMONTON — Pre-deployment training given to soldiers to help them handle the stresses of a mission overseas is going far in preparing them for the job, says a University of Alberta researcher. Dr. Ibolja Cernak, the Canadian military and veterans’ chair in clincial rehabilitation at the U of A, recently returned from a month-long trip […]
Drone pilot life isn’t just lampooned as not real combat, it’s so mind-numblingly mundane that “One bored pilot even calculated the number of farts each cockpit seat was likely to have absorbed,” wrote Matthew M. Power in his epic GQ profile of Air Force drone operator Brandon Bryant. The profile is pretty stunning and definitely […]
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