There are an estimated 1.8 million female veterans in the United States right now. Roughly 25,000 of them live in San Diego County. Women leaving the service have unique needs, and the Department of Veterans Affairs is working to keep up with those challenges.
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When veteran Tara Wise needs to let go of the stress of her hectic day, she heads ...
Homeless U.S. Army veteran Rusty Reed lost his best friend in the world this summer, when his dog Timber ran away during a camping trip in Utah. Through the power of the internet, and the devotion of friends, Rusty and Timber were recently united.
According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, an estimated 130,000 and 200,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. Homeless vets make ...
Amazon is donating 2,000 Kindles to wounded warriors across the country, with 150 of the reading devices going to injured service members and their families in Oceanside.
Representatives from the online retailer will be at the Operation Homefront Village in Oceanside on Thursday morning to hand out the Kindles.
Operation Homefront Village gives injured veterans recently discharged from service a place to live, emotional support, and help with finding ...
A record 1,062 homeless men, women and children sought help at this year's Stand Down for military veterans. It started in San Diego 25 years ago. Now, more than 200 communities across the country put on a similar event. Organizers say one thing's apparent -- more vets from Iraq and Afghanistan are ending up on the streets.
Arturo, a veteran of the Marine Corps, overcame physical injuries, nightmares ...
Some 8,600 homeless veterans will benefit from $15 million in grant money for job training through the U.S. Department of Labor’s Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said today.
The Labor Department has awarded the money to 64 organizations that help America’s veterans, DOL officials said. The grant, officials added, will go to state and local workforce investment boards, local public agencies ...
Former Camp Pendleton Marine and accused serial killer Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo now faces the death penalty if he is found guilty of the six counts of murder with which he's charged.
Prosecutors say Ocampo is responsible for the stabbing deaths of four homeless men in Orange County in a "serial thrill-kill spree," as well as the murders of the mother and brother of one of his friends, according to ...
"What's wrong with me? Got PTSD. These pills ain't working, man, I still can't think."
Those are the words of Iraq War veteran Leo Dunson, a former Sergeant in the United States Army, who has found rapping about his inner war wounds helps him heal.
According to the Associated Press, Dunson was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when he was discharged from the Army in 2008 ...
Great Britain’s Prince Henry of Wales, commonly known as Prince Harry, urged the U.S. and British publics last night to unify in supporting wounded warriors and families of the fallen, particularly as the drawdown of military operations in Afghanistan takes the media spotlight off their continuing needs.
Prince Harry accepted the Atlantic Council’s Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership Award for charitable work he and his brother, Prince William, Duke ...
Should post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, be renamed post-traumatic stress injury? Would a different moniker reduce the stigma attached to the word "disorder"? These are some of the questions a group of psychiatrists will grapple with today at the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting.
According to the Washington Post, the phrase "PTSD" first became part of the nation's vernacular back in 1980, when it was published in the ...
Former Marine Mike Hanes fought in the Iraq War. When he returned to San Diego in 2004 he found himself searching for a purpose in life. He wasn't able to hold down a job because of anger issues that stayed with him after combat. Hanes was homeless for two years while he attended college.
But Hanes used what he learned in the Marine Corps' Survival, Evasion,Resistance and Escape ...
When you walk past a homeless person on the streets of Anytown, USA, there's at least a 1-in-10 chance that human being is a veteran who served our country. A new government report finds roughly 76,000 veterans are sleeping on the streets on any given night.
The study is the result of a first-time collaboration between the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Veterans ...
The "60 Minutes" piece on Sunday about the Veterans Village of San Diego's annual Stand Down event for homeless veterans reported that the number of homeless young veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is already 9,000. It's a staggering number and one that unfortunately is likely to grow substantially as more of our troops come home physically and emotionally damaged and ill-equipped to deal with ...
"When I Came Home" is a powerful 2006 documentary about homeless veterans in America: from those who served in Vietnam to those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The film looks at the challenges faced by returning combat veterans and the battle many must fight for the benefits promised to them from the Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration.
The film, which Variety called "angry and urgent," and New York ...
Excellent piece from IPS on this week's 'Stand Down' in Northern California. Stand Downs are events where homeless veterans are given access to good food, clean clothes, showers and beds, and even access to lawyers and judges to address outstanding warrants and other legal problems.
Nationally, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) estimates that on any given night more than 100,000 veterans are homeless, with double that number ...
