Author: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

The alarming surge comes after the Army sent more than 40 counselors and chaplains to Alaska earlier this year and required counseling sessions.

Ashton Carter, who served as Defense secretary in the final two years of the Obama administration, died on Monday after a ‘sudden cardiac event.’

The Department of Defense estimates sexual assaults among women service members surged 35% from 2018 to 2021, despite promises to curb the problem.

The Pentagon’s “senior mentor” program, left for dead more than a decade ago, is once again flourishing. Critics blast it as an ol’ boys network.

The retired officer, Gary Volesky, responded to a tweet Jill Biden sent about abortion. “Glad to see you finally know what a woman is,” he wrote.

Suicide devastates more than the service member and their family. It reverberates among the soldier’s peers, eroding morale and readiness.

The Pentagon will send 3,000 troops to Germany, Romania and Poland this week. They are separate from the 8,500 troops put on alert last week.

There were 17 suspected suicides among soldiers in Alaska in 2021, more than previous two years combined. The Army is rushing resources there.

Sexual assault survivors win: “Provisions included in this year’s NDAA are the most transformative military justice reforms in our nation’s history.”