The Marine Corps should immediately stop prosecuting Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, on trial now for illegal killings in Haditha; and also release Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins, convicted of premeditated murder arising from Hamdaniya.
As a religious program specialist, Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class James Vanzella protects chaplains and helps them with their daily duties and coordinates religious services.
I began this series of articles on the forty facts you should know about why many see America as being on the decline.
In physics there’s a phenomena known as the “Observer Effect” in which the mere act of watching atoms and other sub-atomic matter actually changes their actions.
President Barack Obama today announced a defense strategy he said will allow the military to defend the United States and its national interests while cutting military spending in a responsible, balanced manner.
I seldom get moved about a movie, or a cause, beyond the confines of my own home, where I take time for my own kids every day, day after day, week after week.
The season of giving has come and gone, and like a lot of you, I walked by the bell ringers of the Salvation Army every day during my shopping and the requests for my charity dollars came pouring in from the United Way, the American Red Cross and even UNICEF.
With a government that can’t seem to get its act together this is a scary situation, particularly when just in the last five years the number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold and doubled since President Obama took office, a USA TODAY analysis finds, and yet they seek budget cuts in the VA system.
I’m torn between the pleasure of having just read a brilliant and moving first-person stream-of-consciousness account of a true story of one woman’s childhood, and the deep sadness that comes from learning about the absolutely horrific hell that this woman is extremely lucky to have survived — a hell that many others have known and will know, despite the ease with which it might be prevented.
Defense Department officials today released the “Annual Report on Sexual Harassment and Violence at the Military Service Academies,” covering the academic year from June 1, 2010, to May 31, 2011.
Opposition to the VA San Diego Healthcare System opening a veterans’ treatment center in Old Town has turned ugly.
Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital received the prestigious Seven Seals Award from the Illinois Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), today in a special ceremony.
Government, business, social service and military leaders are working together on strategies to insure that the nearly 10,000 children of active-duty military in Connecticut get help and support when they need it, particularly children of members of the National Guard and Reserves.
Sometimes there is meaning even in worse-case scenarios
What was intended to be a demonstration of power turned into the most costly boomerang in history, in both blood and treasure. by George Galloway
The last time I saw Matt Hevezi was six years ago. He was bunking behind a skateboard shop in a hardscrabble Oceanside neighborhood.
We have paid an obscene price for the so-called war on terror, which has benefited none other than 1) Israel and 2) American energy corporations.
Veterans Today is the continual recipient of intelligence, much of which is quite unreportable. There is enough chaos without us making it worse. Thus, we are censors, though unlike Wikileaks, we don’t take direction from the New York Times or the Israeli ambassador.
I admit upfront that I know even less than you do (the reader), about the twisted and fragmented history of Israel and it’s interactions with Arab and non-Arab neighbors in the middle east.
The economy doesn’t help the warrior’s transitioning challenge
War is a racket, Afghanitan the worst in our history. The “War is a Racket” part I borrowed from Smedley Butler and will continue to do so. As for Afghanistan, I am supposed to be an expert on the region, have been brief and have briefed top military experts on the region.
Scandal’s are a dime a dozen nowadays, each getting its 15 minutes of notoriety and soon to be forgotten.
Our morally wounded veterans and rising suicide rate is the canary in the mineshaft warning America of the true human moral and economic cost for our continuing imperialistic agenda and unjust wars.
US armed forces rely on drones to attack and spy on enemies without risking American lives. Since President Barack Obama assumed office, approximately 30 drones controlled by the Central Intelligence Agency have hit targets in Pakistan more than 230 times.
Figures lie, some groups are counted, some are not. But the lowest figures available have one in three families, this includes active duty serving overseas, reservists and National Guard and veterans losing their homes since 2008. Two thirds of those are now “split up” with at least one member “homeless.”
If our sane military leaders make it clear that they will “just say no” if ordered to commit more war crimes – especially if the war crimes in question are part of a treasonous and suicidal attack on Iran for Israel.
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