The father of a Camp Pendleton Marine whose road rage was caught on video has talked to "Inside Edition."
Dr. Peter Brightman said in an interview that his son, Sgt. Joshua Brightman, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder triggered by two deployments to Afghanistan.
Dr. Brightman said the road rage incident prompted Sgt. Brightman to seek counseling for his issues.
Brightman said of his son's behavior on the video...
“I ...
It was on April 10, 2012 that Army Sgt. Travis Mills stepped on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan and lost all four limbs. Today Mills and his family are celebrating his "Alive Day" - along with the release of the trailer for a documentary about his life.
Mills is one of only five quadruple amputees to survive the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was on his third tour of ...
Camp Pendleton officials say the Marine Corps sergeant caught on tape in a road rage incident is being investigated for "potential legal or administrative proceedings."
Base spokesman Sgt. Christopher Duncan said in a statement released to CNN:
"...any further legal proceedings regarding this incident would be at the discretion of his unit, which is still gathering information."
As Home Post reported last week, a female Marine who is paralyzed from ...
Camp Pendleton officials this week issued blood-alcohol testing devices to unit commanders as part of the Marine Corps Alcohol Screening Program that was implemented January 1, according to a base news release.
The program requires Marines to be tested randomly twice a year.
Marines who test positive for a blood alcohol content of .01 percent will be referred for screening and treatment.
Commanders will be required to refer Marines and ...
A road rage incident caught on video at Camp Pendleton is making national headlines - and raising some questions about the effectiveness of mental health care provided to troops returning from combat.
First, some background: A female Marine who'd been paralyzed from the waist down shot video of a Marine sergeant verbally attacking her (and her caregiver brother) after a fender bender on base. In the video, the sergeant screams ...
Army Chief Warrant Officer Curtis S. Reagan, 43, died March 29 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, from a non-combat related illness, according to the Department of Defense.
The Pentagon has not specifically named the illness that killed Reagan.
Reagan was from Summerville, South Carolina. He was assigned to the 603rd Aviation Support Battalion, 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield in Georgia.
Colonel Allan Pepin, Commander, Task ...
The Marine Corps Times has put out a call to Camp Pendleton Marines looking for free dunk tests to measure their body fat.
According to the Gannett Company-owned newspaper and website, dunk tests are a more accurate way to measure body fat than tape testing.
To prove it, the Times wants male and female Marines...
...who have scored at least 280 on their PT tests yet were forced to take ...
From the U.S. Department of Defense:
The Army released suicide data today for the month of February 2013. During February, among active-duty soldiers, there were 11 potential suicides: three have been confirmed as suicides and eight remain under investigation.
For January 2013, the Army reported 19 potential suicides among active-duty soldiers; however, subsequent to the report, another case was added bringing January's total to 20: seven have been ...
Navy officials say a 19-year-old female sailor was found aboard the San Diego-based USS Essex with a gunshot wound Thursday. She was later pronounced dead at University of California, San Diego Trauma Center.
Navy spokesman Rick Chernitzer told U-T San Diego he could not surmise as to whether the shooting was self-inflicted or perpetrated by another:
“Since an investigation is being conducted, it would be inappropriate for me to speculate ...
The surgical staff at Naval Medical Center San Diego recently performed an Ex-utero Intrapartum Treatment - the first time the groundbreaking procedure has ever been conducted at that hospital.
The revolutionary surgery is performed on a fetus to clear his or her airway.
The patient was little Charlie Bardos, son of Alina Bardos and Marine Sgt. Brandon Bardos. Sgt. Bardos is assigned to Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe Bay.
Prenatal imaging ...
There are nearly one million Americans who are charged with taking care of an injured service member - and almost all of them are women, according to a new Rand report.
The study finds military caregivers fit a different profile than civilian caregivers; the average military caregiver is a young mother with children at home to care for:
Military caregivers are younger and tend to live with the individual they care ...
Jayce Odin Boelk came into this world weighing only 13 ounces, making him the smallest newborn in Naval Medical Center San Diego's history.
Jayce was born on October 11 to Marine Corporal Monica Lovings and former Marine Corporal Allen Boelk. The Micro Preemie spent the last four months in the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), gaining enough weight and strength for his homecoming on February 14.
Pentagon officials say military pay and benefits would not be affected by sequestration.
President Obama used his legal authority - according to The Pentagon Channel - to exempt military personnel funding from sequestration cuts, although he does not have the same authority to protect civilian pay.
Scientists are working on developing artificial blood platelets that could better help troops injured in combat survive their wounds, according to news out of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
A group of researchers from Georgia Tech and Emory University, both in Atlanta, have a project in the works that could one day give service members with traumatic injuries the ability to treat their own wounds:
[T]hey're developing new ...
Military women who face combat in deployment after having a baby face an increased risk of depression, according to a new study from San Diego State University, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, and Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda.
The study finds most of the 16,000 service women on active duty who have babies each year return to service 6 weeks after giving birth, and can be ...
