New solutions, such as those put forth by the Brandon Act or a Crisis Response Plan, are needed immediately to help with the military suicide crisis, says the author of this commentary.
Army Capt. Clevy Muchette Nelson-Royster, 27, was arrested Oct. 15 and charged with murder in the death of Capt. Malcolm X. Perry, El Paso police said. Both were logistics officers with the 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss.
Current and former soldiers have taken to social media with their own accounts of sexual assault and harassment at the base following the disappearance and slaying this year of Spc. Vanessa Guillen.
An affidavit alleges that Brandon M. Olivares shot Pfc. Brandon S. Rosecrans at close range while he slept in his Jeep after the two men argued about the sale price of a gun.
A fourth lawsuit has been filed involving the sudden deaths of patients at a West Virginia veterans hospital where a former nursing assistant admitted giving them wrongful insulin injections.
Authorities said Wednesday that a Fort Hood soldier found dead last week near the Texas Army base where he was stationed is believed to have drowned, according to the Bell County Sheriff’s Department.
Two men have been kicked out of the Army National Guard after liberal activists uncovered their membership in a religious group with white supremacist ties.