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At 24, I Tried Not to Make Waves. Ten Years Later, I Wish Had a Do-Over.
Ten years ago, I wandered into my first military spouse hiring fair. My resume read Honors College, summa cum laude and included a section at the bottom that read recently passed a secret-level background check, but my lack of work…
It Took 8 Deployments, 3 Pregnancies, and $43,700 in IVF Treatments for Kristin and Joe to Have …
The crib and changing table are still in the baby’s room, empty and untouched since Lieutenant Commander Kristin Bowen and her husband, Lieutenant Joe Turnbull, assembled them more than a year ago.Inside the closet that she painted pink, a…
Far-Right Suggests Military Just Authorized Lethal Force Against Americans Ahead of the Election. It…
Just as former president Donald Trump told Fox News last week that he wanted to use the U.S. military to “handle” what he called the “enemy from within” on Election Day, an obscure military policy was beginning to make the rounds on…
I Thought the Marine Corps Would Offer a Better Life. It Was Another Place I Didn’t Belong.
Editor’s Note: This story was published in partnership with San Quentin News and was written during a writing seminar for incarcerated veterans in April hosted by The War Horse at California’s San Quentin Rehabilitation Center. Tens of…
Emissions War Escalates—Pollution From World’s Militaries in Spotlight at UN Summit Should…
In the winter of 2022, Lennard de Klerk was running a carbon-neutral ecolodge in a tiny Hungarian town when Russia invaded neighboring Ukraine and hundreds of thousands of refugees crossed the border into Hungary.De Klerk, a Dutch engineer…
Military Newspapers Told Stories No One Else Did. It Was Our Job to Care.
Newspapers—the old-fashioned, printed, published kind—are meant to be replaced. A day or week of stories and photos, then a new edition. They are like soldiers, giving way to who’s next, like how my responsibilities, across five years and…
Pentagon Upgrades Discharges of Hundreds of LGBTQ Veterans The Move Benefits Veterans Thrown Out of…
Hundreds of gay and lesbian veterans will soon receive honorable discharges, marking a major step forward in the Pentagon’s promise to address decades of discrimination against LGBTQ service members.Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin…
Court Rules Marines Can’t Shield Officer Misconduct Records A federal judge finds the Marine Corps…
In a significant step toward forcing the disclosure of decades of officer misconduct records, a federal judge has ruled that the Marine Corps violated the Freedom of Information Act by blanketly denying The War Horse’s request for a copy of…
My Men Had Served a Year in Hell. I Was Getting Them Home, Come Humid Hell or High Water.
General Becker shook my hand, said nice things about me, administered an oath in which I swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, then pinned a gold bar on my right collar while Major Phillips, my boss, pinned…
Confluence of Epic Hurricanes, Election Ensnare Military in Misinformation Deluge No, the Department…
Perhaps nothing illustrates the power of misinformation in America better than what happened Monday morning when retired Army Lieutenant Gen. Michael Flynn hit the send button on a social media post: He shared a video that claimed “weather…
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