In the United States, veterans face a 58% higher risk of suicide, according to the national nonprofit ‘Stop Soldier Suicide.’ But a new, Emmy Award-winning suicide prevention video campaign titled ‘Face Your Dragon’ has generated 500 million views on YouTube and counting for its message promoting secure firearm storage as…

Written by  Jim Stewart Published on Aug 29, 2026, 7:40 AM EDT If you are at the point of losing your home to foreclosure, selling your home may be able to help you limit the damage to your credit, preserve equity that you have built up, avoid additional costs, and allow…

Taking the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) is the first major step toward launching your military career. Your test performance directly impacts your eligibility for enlistment through your Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) score and determines which specific jobs you qualify for across the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine…

Some military quotes survive because they captured a decision made under fire. Others lasted because they explained war, leadership or sacrifice in a sentence short enough to carry across generations. This list favors lines with strong historical sourcing. A few are preserved through later eyewitness accounts, which is noted where…

The Department of Veterans Affairs hit 2 million processed disability claims by June of this year — weeks ahead of any prior record — with average wait times cut nearly in half and the backlog under 75,000. Veterans advocates say speed matters, but accuracy matters more. The Department of Veterans…

On May 18, 1917, six weeks after the United States declared war on Germany, Congress passed the Selective Service Act. It was the first national draft since the Civil War, and it changed the daily reality of nearly every young man in the country almost overnight. If you want to…

Most people assume the World War II draft began the day after Pearl Harbor. It didn’t. The United States started conscripting men more than a year before it entered the war, and the rules that governed who got called up changed dramatically once it did. Whether you’d have gone depends…

A Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II crashed Friday morning at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, sending black smoke above the base and igniting a brush fire near the flight line. The pilot ejected before impact and reached a local hospital in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries. The…

One of the most consistently underused benefits available to service members and their families is also one of the simplest to access: free, confidential, nonmedical counseling through Military OneSource, up to 12 sessions per issue, with no referral, no diagnosis and no reporting back to anyone’s chain of command. What…

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