Long deployments overwhelm a strained Navy mental health system, personnel say
Navy therapists and sailors cited long wait times and inadequate services as hurdles to getting mental health help aboard deployed ships.
By Riley Ceder
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Navy must ‘start killing manned programs,’ defense official says
The Navy needs to get a lot more ruthless to bring the fleet into the future, a top leader of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit said Wednesday.
By Hope Hodge Seck
Navy not doing enough to study long-term brain damage in aviators, lawmakers say
A House committee found that the Navy was at fault for not doing more to research long-term brain damage in aviators, despite knowledge of suicides.
By Riley Ceder
Suicide prevention efforts at Fort Hood lack ‘professional expertise,’ Army says
A contract request from III Armored Corps admits that existing "resources do not provide the specialized professional expertise" in suicide prevention.
By Michael Peck
Pentagon upgrades awards for 3 Marines at Abbey Gate attack
The awards come five years after a suicide bomber killed 13 U.S. service members and around 170 civilians at Abbey Gate in Kabul, Afghanistan.
By Eve Sampson