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Short Changed: Military Comes with Unique Risks for Domestic Violence, Can Silence Survivors
NOVEMBER 30, 2023 | ANNE MARSHALL-CHALMERS and SONNER KEHRTThis article is part of Short Changed, a series looking at the noncombat deaths of women going back to 9/11.On the night of Aug. 5, Meredith Barney and her daughter, Saria…
Clandestine Combat, Quesadilla Bribes, and Operation Jiujitsu Underground
“It is on the ship—assume you have it. We will find and beat this thing down.”The alarming words from our skipper about Covid-19 aboard the USS Ronald Reagan caused a cascade of restrictions for our standard operating procedures while on…
Short Changed: Military Women’s Deaths by Suicide Linked to Sexual Trauma
This article is part of Short Changed, a series looking at the noncombat deaths of women going back to 9/11.As of Jan. 17, veterans thinking about hurting themselves can get free crisis care, including inpatient, for up to 90 days at…
He Spent Years Learning Other People’s Secret Pains. I Spent Years Hiding Mine.
My husband’s phone rang on our way to get ice cream, and my heart sank just as the baby in my belly kicked. I rubbed and patted the bump, soothing away her restlessness and my immediate need for butter pecan.“So, she woke up with his…
Short Changed: Why Are Women Still Not Safe Serving in the US Military?
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The Shoulders I Stood on Were Gone. How Little I Knew of the Journey Before Me.
A Delta Force unit zipped over the barren desert. Two Black Hawks contained assault forces. Four Little Birds carried riders and artillery. It was a perfect blue sky in Taji, Iraq. The operators stalked a high-profile target. All went…
We Did Not Fight. This Was Our War, if You Could Call It That.
It is March of 2023. I am in a cafe watching the Iraq War’s early stages play out in short clips on a television mounted on the wall in front of me. Marines barge through doors in Fallujah, unsure if it is violent death or an empty room…
Veterans Who Are Food Insecure Are Less Likely to Seek Help Than Civilians
About eight years ago, Carl Davis stared at his bills and decided which ones not to pay. Without the financial jigsaw, he couldn’t afford food for his family. Davis, who has a 100% disability rating from Veterans Affairs for service-related…
The Things We Borrowed–I Didn’t Set out to Be in Nonprofit Black Market Supply With Whiskey as…
I steered the jeep off the dusty, rutted main road and rattled down a well-worn track until I beheld a bizarre juxtaposition of images: the silhouette of a thousand-year-old Hindu temple cheek by jowl with something resembling a porcupine…
We Forever Carry With Us the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Our Service and What We Learned From It
“Sean, can you go assist that gentleman outside? He was in the Marines too, so I figured you’d have something to bond over.”I rolled my eyes. This was my first job post-college, and I didn’t like advertising my service in the civilian…
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