Long deployments overwhelm a strained Navy mental health system, personnel say
Navy therapists and sailors cited long wait times and inadequate services as hurdles to getting mental health help aboard deployed ships.
By Riley Ceder
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VA facilities struggle to staff mental health, nursing, safety positions, watchdog finds
More than half of the Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers have reported severe staffing shortages, the Office of Inspector General finds.
By Patricia Kime
Navy families evacuated from Bahrain are still trying to retrieve their belongings
Months after the evacuation of 1,300 dependents from NSA Bahrain, some families remain separated from household goods, vehicles and pets.
Americans mark 25 years since September 11 attacks amid enduring grief, reflection
Twenty-five years after the deadliest attack on U.S. soil, Americans paused to remember those killed and wrestle with the reverberating consequences.
By Maria Tsvetkova, Idrees Ali and Joseph Ax, Reuters
Pentagon codifies fitness standards across branches
The new regulations spell out testing timelines, standards for troops in combat arms specialties and guidelines for pregnancy and postpartum fitness.
By Eve Sampson
They served through America’s post-9/11 wars. 25 years later, what did that service mean?
Nearly 3 million Americans served in the wars that followed Sept. 11. Three veterans reflect in The War Horse about what they saw, lost and still carry.
By David Roza, The War Horse