The Other Victims of Battlefield Stress; Defense Contractors’ Mental Health...
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica – February 26, 2010 REDDING, Calif. — Wade Dill does not figure into the toll of war dead. An exterminator, Dill took a job in Iraq for a company contracted to do...
View Article1 in 3 women raped in military- Pentagon protects perps
ACLU lawsuit: Military won’t release rape records JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN – The Associated Press – December 13, 2010 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Sexual assault pervades the military, but the Pentagon refuses to...
View ArticleSSG David P. Senft Memorial in California
by Jeff Ackerman – December 29, 2010 A memorial service is slated for Staff Sgt. David Paul Senft, who died in Afghanistan on Nov. 15, 2010. He was 27. Friends and family will remember him at a special...
View ArticleFailing those who protect our freedom…Again
Up to 18 veterans commit suicide everyday, many of them while awaiting a health care referral that can take months, according to the ruling.
View ArticleSupporting our troops, Veterans Day and other news
…While the majority of our country has moved on or ignored what is happening, or has happened in these wars, bright and brave twenty-somethings are coming home paralyzed, maimed, severely burned and...
View ArticleNot so fast and other news
Contractor linked to mistaken deaths After deaths of 15 Afghans in 2010, Army learned that U.S. civilian played a role using drone video feeds. David S. Cloud – (STL Today) – WASHINGTON – December 31,...
View ArticleWho’s sorry now and other news
Deportation likely for porn man Dan Oakes – (Sydney Morning Herald) – March 12, 2012 – An Australian man facing up to 10 years in prison for a child pornography offence in the United States could be...
View ArticlePTSD diagnoses at Lewis-McChord reexamined
It is home base not only of the soldier accused in this weekend’s shooting of civilian women and children in Afghanistan, but also Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, who was recently convicted of killing Afghan...
View ArticleMilitary Flies Shooting Suspect Out of Afghanistan
A congressman asked the Pentagon on Tuesday to explain why the soldier accused in the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers was sent back into combat after earlier suffering a traumatic brain injury in Iraq,...
View ArticleGone Fishin’ and other news
We imagine the lobbyist stalking the halls of Congress trying to use cash to influence important people. But it doesn’t always work that way. Often, the Congressman is stalking the lobbyist, asking for...
View ArticleArrested developments and other news
Report: TRC Folded In Inquiry Haines City firm faced accusations of supplying Army with bad gyroscopes. Kyle Kennedy – (The Ledger) – HAINES CITY – May 20, 2012 – When Technology Research Consultants...
View ArticleReturning War Contractors Face Second Battle, Against AIG
After his rig bottomed out in a bomb crater, AIG made former KBR trucker David Boiles of Willis suffer through 14 months of agonizing back pain and sciatica before they authorized surgery. – Photo...
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