American soldiers are taking their own lives in the largest numbers since the military began keeping records, and the Department of Defense has enlisted the help of The Florida State University in waging the war against suicide.
Symposium highlights how experiences in Iraq may provide insight for effectively treating post traumatic stress disorders and other serious psychological conditions.
After returning from deployment, military personnel are screened for mental health and other health-related concerns. But the effects of injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury can surface three to six months later, says Mary Beth Dunkenberger, senior program director with Virginia Tech’s Institute for Policy and Governance.
A device developed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers that shoots a blade of water capable of penetrating steel is headed to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to help them disable deadly improvised explosive devices, or IEDs — the No. 1 killer and threat to troops in Afghanistan, according to the Pentagon.
Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company.
An antibacterial peptide looks to be a highly-effective therapy against infections in burn or blast wounds suffered by soldiers.
Research from the University of Washington finds that digital media, such as mobile phones and the Internet, have become all but essential in building democracies.
U.S. Army Helps contractor produce graduation video for father’s commencement at Nova Southeastern University.
Since returning home, some 100,000 veterans from the first Gulf War have reported chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) similar to fibromyalgia, and a new study in The Journal of Pain, published by the American Pain Society, shows that acute exercise can exacerbate the pain but long-term exercise has the opposite outcome and reduces it.
Once stationed in Afghanistan, Army Reserve Officer and University of Houston College of Optometry alumnus Dr. Ben Uhl soon realized that he was not the only Houston Cougar serving in the war-torn country.
One of the world’s leading scholars about the Kurds, Michael Gunter, a Tennessee Tech University political science professor, has strong opinions about drawing down of U.S. troops in Iraq. Reporters interested in the topic are invited to interview Gunter on how this affects Iraq, the Kurds, U.S. policy in Afghanistan and domestic issues, including upcoming elections and the economy.
Recent research at Washington State University (WSU) suggests that, for many U.S. veterans, combat is a defining experience that often sets the trajectory of the balance of their lives.
Brian F. Carso, Jr., J.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of history and director of the pre-law and Government, Law & National Security programs at Misericordia University, is an expert on treason and is available to discuss WikiLeaks and the war in Afghanistan.
Despite the U.S. military’s reliance on technology in modern warfare, American troops on the ground – the “grunts” – have proven to be the crucial difference between victory and defeat, says military historian John C. McManus in a new book about America’s ground forces.
Stefan Bossmann, professor of chemistry at Kansas State University, recently opened K-State's organic chemistry teaching lab to 30 soldiers with the 172nd Chemical-Biological-Radiological-Nuclear Company at Fort Riley. The soldiers met for a day of basic training in organic chemistry which could prove invaluable in combat since they specialize in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear detection and decontamination on the battlefield.
The Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University will welcome 23 veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraqi conflicts to its Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) on July 24. The program, offered entirely free (including travel and accommodations) to post-9/11 veterans, provides men and women representing all four branches of the U.S. military with cutting-edge training in entrepreneurship and small business management in an effort to help them “create their own jobs.”
Soldiers who receive traumatic brain injuries during war may be at a higher risk of epilepsy even decades after the brain injury occurred. The new research is published in the July 20, 2010, print issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
A compelling article details the experiences of a group of pediatric neurosurgeons over the course of a 2-year mission at Bagram Airfield/Heathe N. Craig Joint Theater Hospital (CJTH), 27 miles north of Kabul. While there, they performed lifesaving procedures on innocent young bystanders of the military conflict in Afghanistan. The authors provide more than a glimpse into the types of injuries incurred by innocent children – they include statistics on the types of injuries and neurosurgical procedures performed, including four illustrative case studies.
It’s no secret that Americans tend to throw their support behind a sitting U.S. president when the nation is thrust into a war. New research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests these "rally effects" represent a collective reaction to a specific human emotion – anger.
The current tension between President Obama and Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is nothing new in the presidency, says military historian Dr. John C. McManus.
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