A Year After War Wound, American Wins Paralympics
The first thing you need to know about Navy Lt. Brad Snyder is that he's a bit intense.If you go to the U.S. Naval Academy, swim competitively, and make the cut for the Navy's elite bomb-disposal...
View ArticleMilitary Vote Seen As A Key To Capturing Virginia
Both presidential campaigns are focusing on just a few swing states, and the relatively few remaining undecided voters. One of those states is Virginia, where a key swing constituency is military...
View ArticleVet Walks On New Legs, With A Little Help From Mom
On furlough from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center this summer, 21-year-old Nick Staback lounges on his parents' back porch in Scranton, Pa., taking potshots at sparrows with a replica...
View ArticleNew York Officials Promise Power Will Return Soon
We look at the continued impact of superstorm Sandy, four days after it made landfall.
View ArticleNew York To Allow Voters To Cast Ballots By Affidavit
Transcript MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: Now many who will cast presidential ballots in New York have been facing a complicated post-storm challenge - where they should vote. Superstorm Sandy has displaced many...
View ArticleVeterans Deploy To Northeast After Superstorm Sandy
Among the thousands of volunteers helping the victims of Superstorm Sandy in New York and New Jersey are hundreds of military veterans who have turned out to help.For this group, work like this seems...
View ArticleResidents In Conn. Town Struggle As Details Emerge
Transcript GUY RAZ, HOST: It's WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Guy Raz.The nation is reeling from yesterday's deadly shooting, nowhere more than in the community of Newtown,...
View ArticleFor Veterans, The Wait For Disability Claims Grows Longer
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View ArticleSuicide Hotline Fights To Keep Vets And Troops Alive
At a suicide prevention center in upstate New York, America's troops and veterans are calling in for help.And that help is needed more than ever. This past year witnessed a terrible death toll from...
View ArticleShooting Of 'American Sniper' Raises Questions About PTSD Treatment
Police in Texas have charged Eddie Ray Routh, a 25-year-old U.S. Marine reservist, with capital murder. Arrest records indicate that Routh had been twice taken to a mental hospital in recent months,...
View ArticleA Wounded Soldier Stands Tall At Reunion With His Platoon
U.S. Army Spc. Tyler Jeffries spent most of last year in Afghanistan, on dusty, hot patrols in the villages outside Kandahar. Last fall, on Oct. 6, his tour ended three months early."I was clearing an...
View ArticleFemale Soldiers Face Tough Switch From Front Lines To Homefront
In a series of reports this week, NPR's Quil Lawrence looks at some of the most pressing challenges facing America's nearly 2 million female veterans. Like men, they often need assistance in finding...
View ArticleWomen In Combat, And The Price They Pay
America has been debating the role of women in combat since 1779.That's when the Continental Congress first awarded a military disability pension to Mary Corbin after she manned a cannon in the...
View ArticleOff The Battlefield, Military Women Face Risks From Male Troops
Dora Hernandez gave a decade of her life to the U.S. Navy and the Army National Guard, but some of the dangers surprised her."The worst thing for me is that you don't have to worry about the enemy, you...
View ArticleSexual Violence Victims Say Military Justice System Is 'Broken'
Myla Haider took a roundabout route to becoming an agent in the Army's Criminal Investigation Command, or CID. Wars kept interrupting her training."My commander wanted to take me to Iraq as the...
View ArticleSearching For Veterans On Alaska's Remote Edges
When he was in Vietnam, Isaac Oxereok's small build made him ideal for tunnel-ratting: running with a pistol and a flashlight into underground passages built by the Viet Cong. In 1967 he finished his...
View ArticleForgotten For Decades, WWII Alaskans Finally Get Their Due
Alaskan Clyde Iyatunguk grew up hearing stories about the U.S. Army colonel, Marvin 'Muktuk' Marston, who helped his father trade his spear for a rifle, to protect his homeland during World War...
View ArticleFor Ailing Vets In Rural Areas, Tele-Medicine Can Be The Cure
Howard Lincoln of White Mountain, Alaska, doesn't always hear it when people knock on his door. He's 82 and he still has a little shrapnel in his jaw from a mortar shell that nearly killed him in the...
View ArticleAt A Texas Base, Battling Army's Top Threat: Suicide
Suicide killed more American troops last year than combat in Afghanistan, and that is likely to be the case again this year.According to the Pentagon, there were at least 349 confirmed suicides in...
View ArticleA Veteran's Piercing True Story Leaps From Page To Stage
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