More Vets Who Are Coping With PTSD From Sexual Assaults Get Honorable Discharges
Sexual assault is still a major issue for the military. Reports rose by 10 percent last year , though there is some discussion about whether that is an increase in the number of assaults or an...
View ArticleMarine Corps' Top General Joins Ramadan Meal
The commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller, stopped by a mosque outside Baltimore on Thursday evening for Iftar, the fast-breaking meal during the month of Ramadan, when practicing...
View ArticleNoncitizens Recruited For An Army Program Are At Risk For Deportation
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: We're going to hear now about a U.S. military recruitment program. It is for noncitizens, and it's designed to take advantage of professional...
View ArticleTrump Wins Pledge From Kim To Return Remains Of Americans From Korean War
One of the four key points agreed to by President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is to help repatriate the remains of Americans killed in action during the Korean War. "The United States and...
View ArticleNorth Korea To Help Identify, Return Remains Of U.S. Troops From Korean War
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Let's zoom in now on that last commitment that President Trump and Chairman Kim made in their joint statement, to recover and repatriate the...
View ArticleICE Drops Deportation Threat Against Chinese Student Joining U.S. Army
The Army has long had shortages of health care workers and speakers of certain languages , and in 2009 it started doing what other industries, including the medical field have done: It looked to...
View ArticleWhat To Know About Trump's VA Secretary Nominee Robert Wilkie
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: President Trump is trying again to fill the post of secretary of Veterans Affairs. The president fired his first VA secretary. His second...
View ArticleTrump's Uncontroversial VA Pick Sails Through Confirmation Hearing
Back in March, President Trump fired his first VA secretary, David Shulkin. His first nominee to fill the post, White House physician Ronny Jackson, withdrew after charges of professional misconduct....
View ArticleSenate Confirms Pentagon Official To Head Veterans Affairs Department
President Trump's second VA secretary, Robert Wilkie, was confirmed 86-9 by the Senate on Monday. He takes the helm of the second largest department in the U.S. government, with more than 350,000...
View ArticleTrump Faces Friendly Crowd At VFW Convention
President Trump delivered a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention in Kansas City, Mo., offering many of his regular talking points about everything from tariffs to immigration to the...
View ArticleNorth Korea Turns Over 55 Boxes Of Possible Remains Of U.S. Serviceman
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It's been 65 years to the day since an armistice ended the Korean War. And this morning at Osan Air Base in South Korea, American and allied...
View ArticleRobert Wilkie Sworn In As Secretary Of Veterans Affairs
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: In the Oval Office this afternoon, President Trump swore in Robert Wilkie to be the next secretary of Veterans Affairs. Wilkie's worked for...
View ArticleAn Iraq Veteran, Heroin Addict, Bank Robber And Debut Novelist
Nico Walker is in jail for robbing banks. He can use the pay phone for 15 minutes at a time, and then he has to wait a half-hour. It took a while to do an interview. That's also sort of the way he...
View ArticleWhy The Number Of U.S. Visas Being Granted To Afghan And Iraqi Allies Are Down
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AILSA CHANG, HOST: For 17 years, Afghan and Iraqi interpreters have served alongside U.S. soldiers at war. They face not just the danger of combat but death...
View ArticleVA Hospital Aims To Do Better After Veteran's Suicide
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Every day in this country, according to the federal government, about 20 military veterans die by suicide. The U.S. Department of Veterans...
View ArticleA Vet's Suicide Pushes The VA To Do Better
Your kid can grow up, even join the Army and go to war, and you'll still do dad things when he comes back. David Toombs would make his son lunch. "I always made him extra, just in case he got hungry or...
View ArticleMurder Trial Of Blackwater Guard Ends In Mistrial
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: The private military contractor Blackwater changed its name years ago after the name became virtually synonymous for reckless mercenary...
View ArticleVA Will Try Again To Make Its Health Records Compatible With Pentagon's
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: The Department of Veterans Affairs wants to coordinate its electronic health records with health records at the Pentagon. This makes sense...
View ArticleMaj. DJ Skelton Retires From Army, Leaving Behind A Legacy Of Helping Wounded...
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: An Army major named DJ Skelton retired on Monday at a ceremony in Arlington, Va. In attendance were family, friends and fellow soldiers,...
View ArticleKansas City Mayoral Candidate Jason Kander Drops Out, Citing PTSD
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Jason Kander, a Missouri politician seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party and a favorite in the Kansas City mayor's race, is dropping...
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