What started as a fan page on Facebook for author and military wife Shawn Gourley's upcoming book "The War At Home: One Family's Fight Against PTSD," has turned into a support group for families nationwide that are dealing with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Veterans, spouses, family members, and friends are all evidently using the page to talk to others and ask questions about dealing with PTSD. It's ...
One of the most interesting aspects of my job as a journalist who's covered the military for so many years is the reaction I get when I tell troops or veterans that I'm a cancer survivor.
It doesn't come up all the time, of course, but when it does come up in conversation, or when warriors already know my history from my books about cancer or something ...
Doubling of night raids backfired in Kandahar - During a round of media interviews last month, Gen. David Petraeus released totals for the alleged results of nearly 3,000 "night raids" by Special Operations Forces (SOF) units from May through July: 365 "insurgent leaders" killed or captured, 1,355 Taliban "rank and file" fighters captured, and 1,031 killed. But a direct correlation between the stepped up night raids in Kandahar ...
