After I posted a rant on my Facebook about post partum disorders and how the “breast is best” mentality can affect new moms, I got...

This month three sailors assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush committed suicide all within a week, two of them on the same day.[i] As of...

We all have bad days. You woke up late for work, one of the kids spilled something on the carpet, the boss is on a tirade, or all the...

All I wanted to do was to save Marines from having to go through the same thing my husband and I did. Whether you did your four and got...

“I can’t do this anymore.” I said those ugly words to my husband of only a year and a half, together even longer, I’d been with him...

My first exposure to veteran suicide happened not while, or after, my time in the Army, but years earlier, when I was an 11 year old boy,...

I joined the United States Army at the age of 17. I was a junior at Central Valley High School when I joined. I wanted the privilege and...

It’s been almost 7 years since returning from Afghanistan... Today is hard. Nothing prompted it, nothing startled me, and nothing can...

For 7 long years I struggled with the notion that I got my best friend killed. Mark and I were inseparable. He became a brother to my...

TEST ARTICLE (shamelessly borrowed from OAF) The most common question asked of a service member is, “why did you join?” The most common...

“Get help” I bet your face just scrunched up, and you pulled your head back. “Who’s this fucking dude? He doesn’t know me. I’m fine” ...