The latest suicide statistics from the Department of Defense show 52 percent of troops who took their own lives between 2008 and 2011 were never deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Roughly 34 percent who committed suicide were deployed, but didn't see combat.

The Los Angeles Times broke down the numbers provided to the paper by the Pentagon. Between 2008 and 2011, just 14 percent of the service members who ...

Quadruple amputee Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, who lost all four limbs in an April 2012 IED blast in Afghanistan, gave advice to J.P. Norden - Boston Marathon bomb blast survivor - as Norden visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Wednesday.

Norden lost a leg in the Boston bombing. Norden's civilian surgeon, Dr. E. J. Caterson, told American Forces Press Service he hoped fellow amputees like Mills wound inspire ...

An investigation is underway as to why a K-MAX unmanned helicopter crashed in Afghanistan on June 5. The aircraft was delivering cargo to Marines near Camp Leatherneck when it went down.

2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (Forward) spokesman Capt. Matthew Beers told the Military Times that the K-MAX was in autonomous mode at the time of the crash:

It was delivering cargo to a predetermined location without the input of a ...

Army Staff Sgt. Jesse L. Thomas Jr., 31, died in Helmand, Afghanistan on June 10. The incident that caused his death is under investigation, according to the Pentagon.

Thomas was from Pensacola, Florida. He was assigned to the 39th Transportation Battalion, 16th Sustainment Brigade, 21st Theater Sustainment Command, Kleber Kaserne, Germany.

The Department of Defense has released no further information on the circumstances surrounding Thomas's death.

The third American killed when an Afghan soldier turned his gun on his trainers has been identified by the Pentagon as Maj. Jaimie E. Leonard, 39, of Warrick, New York.

Leonard was killed in the same insider attack as Army Lt. Col. Todd Clark and civilian law enforcement professional Joseph Morabito, as Home Post reported earlier this week.

According to Newsday, Leonard was a graduate of the United States Military ...

Camp Pendleton Marine Staff Sgt. Luis Del Valle wasn't able to make his daughter's graduation from eighth grade several years back because he was deployed to Afghanistan. Del Valle wanted to make sure that when his daughter graduated from high school, he would be front and center.

Del Valle had to get special permission to make his daughter's graduation ceremony, which took place at Chicago's Field ...

Army Lt. Col. Todd Clark and civilian law enforcement professional Joseph Morabito were killed June 8 when the Afghan soldier they were training shot and killed them.

Family members of both men told Albany, New York television station WNYT-TV of their deaths. The Department of Defense has yet to officially release the names of those killed, including a third American whose identity has not been publicly released.

Clark, 40, leaves ...

From 1st Marine Division:

MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – As "Taps" sounded, Marines serving with 5th Marine Regiment saluted in honor of their fallen brothers during the regiment's Operation Enduring Freedom Memorial Dedication ceremony here, June 6.

More than a hundred Marines, veterans and Gold Star Mothers gathered at the San Mateo Memorial Garden to join the regiment in honoring the dedication ceremony as the monumental memorial was ...

The parents of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said this week they received a letter they believe was written by their son. Bergdahl has been a prisoner of war since 2009, when he disappeared near his base in Afghanistan.

The Associated Press reports Bob and Jani Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, released a statement Thursday through the International Committee of the Red Cross that read, in part:

“Our family is ...

Six U.S. troops have lost their lives in Afghanistan since the month of June began, according to iCasualties.org.

On June 1, Army Staff Sgt. Job Reigoux was killed when his unit was hit by a rocket propelled grenade in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan.

Reigoux, 30, was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart in Georgia.

Reigoux's sister ...

The Pentagon has named the two U.S. soldiers killed, along with nine Afghan school children, when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives on June 3 in Tsamkani, Afghanistan. They were 2nd Lt. Justin L. Sisson, 23, of Phoenix, Arizona, and Spc. Robert A. Pierce, 20, of Panama, Oklahoma.

As Home Post reported Tuesday, the suicide bomber's target was believed to be a U.S. military delegation attending a ...

Army Warrant Officer Sean W. Mullen, 39, died in Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan on June 2nd. The Department of Defense reports Mullen was killed when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device.

Mullen was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.

According to the Associated Press, Mullen was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He was a graduate of Caesar Rodney High School ...

Nine Afghan children walking home from school and two U.S. troops were killed Monday by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle in Paktia province, Afghanistan.

The Associated Press reports the suicide bomber's target was a U.S. military delegation attending a security briefing...

...but children were the main victims. A local school had just let pupils, between 10 and 16 years old, out for the day. Nine students ...

The first day of June was a deadly one for U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Three soldiers died in three separate incidents, including Army Spc. Kyle P. Stoeckli, 21, who was killed in an IED attack.

According to the Department of Defense, Stoeckli died June 1 in Maiwand, Afghanistan, from injuries sustained when his unit was attacked by an improvised explosive device.

Stoeckli was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 36th ...

The Department of Defense announced it is investigating the death of Army Pfc. Mariano M. Raymundo, 21, who died in Sharan, Afghanistan on June 1.

The Pentagon has not released any further information on the circumstances surrounding Raymundo's death.

He was assigned to the 210th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum in New York.

Raymundo was from Houston, Texas. According to his ...