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  • Enlisted leaders focus on suicide prevention

    The most senior enlisted leaders from each branch of service and the combatant commands focused on the health of the force, and specifically on suicide prevention, during a conference here this week, the military's top enlisted member said today.Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Bryan B. Battaglia, senior

  • Top enlisted leaders focus on troop, family wellness

    The military needs to "eviscerate" societal problems plaguing the force with an unmatched and unyielding effort, the Marine Corps' top enlisted leader said today.Problems such as drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, criminal mischief and suicide are the "insurgents inside our wire," Sgt. Maj. of the

  • Employment conference highlights wounded warriors, spouses

    Four services joined forces recently to conduct the second Wounded Warrior Employment Conference at the Fort Belvoir Officers' Club in Virginia.The theme for the two-day event was "Educate-Empower-Employ."Representatives from the Army Warrior Transition Command, Marine Corps Wounded Warrior

  • Military kids can apply for free summer camps

    With the temperature rising and the school year drawing to a close, parents across the nation are starting to think about summertime plans. Military families can get a head start on their planning today by applying for the National Military Family Association's Operation Purple Summer Camp  program.

  • DOD, VA partnership key in treating brain trauma, panelists say

    The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments are using their partnered programs to identify and treat traumatic brain injury, representatives of both departments said March 19 during a roundtable discussion on new advances in the field.Kathy Helmick, deputy director for TBI at the Defense Centers of

  • AF extends retroactive Stop Loss application window

    Airmen eligible for the Retroactive Stop Loss Special Pay Program who did not apply before the fall deadline will have another opportunity to do so, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.The Retroactive Stop Loss program benefits retired and former Air Force members who were involuntarily held

  • Health system seeks savings while retaining excellence

    Iraq and Afghanistan have been dangerous places over the past decade, but deployed troops often passed a saying on to new arrivals: "If you've got to get shot, this is the best place to do it."The saying spread because the medical care for wounded service members was state-of-the-art, with the

  • Veteran job prospects brighter, Panetta says

    Veteran unemployment numbers are encouraging, but the need for jobs will increase as the services trim their ranks, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta told reporters here March 15.The unemployment rate for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans is down from last year's high of 12.5 percent to 7.6 percent,

  • Military leads in brain injury care, specialists say

    Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps medical specialists are working closely together and with civilian experts to develop the best prevention, diagnosis and treatment practices for traumatic brain injuries, service representatives said March 14."[The Defense Department] is in the lead in making

  • Troops, veterans will benefit from housing settlement, Obama says

    Thousands of service members and veterans whose mortgages were wrongfully foreclosed on, or who were improperly denied lower mortgage interest rates in the national housing crisis, can receive "significant relief," President Barack Obama announced March 6."It is unconscionable that members of our

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