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Lawmakers press for more outside help in stopping veteran suicides
Some want to expand a $174 million grant program which funds suicide prevention efforts run by community groups.
Biden plan to shelve Trump-era sea nuke comes under fire
U.S. President Joe Biden’s plans to cancel the Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear program have emerged as an early political brawl in a brewing fight over next year’s defense budget.
By Joe Gould
‘We are alarmed’: Lawmakers seek answers on troubling Walter Reed base barracks conditions
Navy Times exposed the years-long problems earlier this month.
Book excerpt: ‘Bullets Not Ballots: Success in Counterinsurgency Warfare’
In “Bullets Not Ballots,” Jacqueline L. Hazelton challenges the claim that winning “hearts and minds” is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns.
By Jacqueline L. Hazelton
Book excerpt: ‘No Wider War: A History of the Vietnam War 1945-1975, Volume 2’
"No Wider War" is the second volume of a two-part exploration of America's involvement in Indochina from the end of World War II to the Fall of Saigon.
By Sergio Miller
Pentagon announces nominees for 3 combatant commands
Two women are positioned to take over TRANSCOM and SOUTHCOM, doubling the number of female combatant commanders in DoD history.
By Aaron Mehta
Payroll tax deferral bill fails unanimous Senate hurdle
The bill's Senate cosponsor, Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., called the decision to not pass legislation allowing feds and servicemembers to opt out of the program 'political cowardice.'
By Jessie Bur
Soldier’s badass Van Halen tribute goes viral
A soldier performed a tribute in honor of the late Eddie Van Halen.
By Sarah Sicard
Seeking the Military Suicide Solution Podcast, Episode 26: Barbara Van Dahlen, executive director for PREVENTS
Barbara Van Dahlen is the executive director of the task force to create the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS).
Coast Guard officer appeals prison sentence
He pleaded guilty in October to possessing unregistered and unserialized silencers, being a drug addict in possession of firearms and illegal possession of tramadol, an opioid painkiller.
By Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press