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To create more resilient warriors, Air Force training is emphasizing wellness and stress management
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Air Force recruits at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland prepare to leave a classroom after listening to a lecture on resilience, which included tips on self-control, keeping a positive mindset, and relaxation., Credit: Vanessa Adame / U.S. Air Force
The new basic training curriculum aims to better prepare recruits for the uncertainties of war.

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  • Added: Oct 30, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
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After defeating affirmative action at most colleges, activists' next target is military academies
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: New cadets line up at West Point for Reception Day June 26, 2023. The military academy's class of 2027 includes more than 1250 people. , Credit: Eric Bartelt / U.S. Military Academy at West Point
In its June ruling outlawing affirmative action in college admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court excepted the nation's military academies. A new lawsu...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 8
For the first time in decades, military academy cadets will be allowed to become parents
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: New cadets in West Point's class of 2027 arrive at the military academy for Reception Day June 26, 2023., Credit: Eric Bartelt / U.S. Military Academy
In 2021, Congress reversed a policy that blocked students with dependents from continuing their studies at the highly competitive military academie...

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  • Added: Jul 24, 2023
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 5
For these West Point cadets, military leadership includes finding solutions to climate change
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Paul Farnan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, talks with cadets after they presented their capstone projects in May 2023 at the military academy at West Point., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront
Under a new Army program, West Point students are working with the Defense Department to address climate challenges that could affect national secu...

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2023
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 9
For disabled children of military parents, frequent moves can lead to schooling and health care gaps
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: 8 year old Victoria Thomas boards a bus to attend school outside of San Antonio, Texas. Victoria is nonverbal and relies on a motorized wheelchair and assistive communication devices., Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
When service members move from base to base, they sometimes find it takes too long for their child's new school to begin providing special educatio...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 7
To prepare for new international threats, the Air Force is readying pilots for the unexpected
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Air Force Capt. Dylan Rabbitt guides student pilots through a training scenario using virtual reality simulators at Laughlin Air Force Base in Texas., Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
The Air Force is revamping the way it trains pilots so they can better respond to potential challenges from countries like China and Russia.

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
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Confederate names are being removed from bases, but is a KKK image at West Point 'more nuanced'?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Three bronze panels were mounted on a West Point classroom building in 1965 to display key events in American History. One of the images depicts a hooded Ku Klux Klan member., Credit: Elizabeth V. Woodruff / U.S. Military Academy
The Defense Department is planning to eliminate Confederate names from bases and more than 1100 other things in the military. But it's not clear wh...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 6
Archives, artifacts, and 'a lot of rocks': The Army Corps of Engineers is training veterans for jobs
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Matthew Hanks labels a pottery shard in the Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis office. Hanks is part of the Corps Veterans Curation Program, which employs veterans to help maintain artifacts unearthed in various Corps projects., Credit: Eric Schmid / American Homefront
An Army Corps of Engineers program teaches former troops how to do curation work, while also preparing them for jobs in other fields.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
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Most military recruits come from families of people who served. Experts say that's not sustainable.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Military and community leaders, including Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (second from left), applaud new military recruits at a "Community Salute to Service" May 11 at Waynesville, Mo. High School., Credit: Dawn Arden / U.S. Army
The military is having a tough time finding new recruits, and one factor may be its heavy reliance on families of those who’ve served.

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 6
Driving buses, giving vaccines, patrolling the border: Is the National Guard asked to do too much?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A member of the National Guard drives a school bus van in Chelsea, Mass. in October. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker activated the Guard to address a shortage of drivers as the school year began., Credit: Jesse Costa / WBUR
The National Guard is being tasked with a growing number of missions, and critics argue that heavy deployments are straining the force.

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 6
For veterans starting college, "Academic boot camps' ease the transition to the classroom
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: English Professor Hilary Lithgow leads a discussion among about a dozen veterans and active-duty troops at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill during the Warrior-Scholar Project's 2021 "Academic Boot Camp.", Credit: Ira Wilder / UNC-Chapel Hill
The Department of Veterans Affairs has partnered with the Warrior-Scholar Project, a non-profit group that runs the camps at major universities aro...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2021
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 4
Amid a 'stark' racial disparity in military academy nominations, should Congress be doing more?
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Members of the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2021 take the oath of office to become Marine Corps second lieutenants during their May graduation and commissioning ceremony., Credit: Stacy Godfrey / U.S. Naval Academy
Advocates say more members of Congress should reach out to Black and Latino high school students and make them aware of opportunities at the elite ...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2021
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 6
For military children, changing schools in a pandemic presents new challenges
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: At General Clarence Tinker K-8 School on MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., about four in five students are attending classes in person., Credit: Danielle Quilla / U.S. Air Force
Most military children are used to moving and changing schools. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, it can be especially hard to make friends and fee...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 5
These Air Force trainees spend less time in the cockpit, more time in flight simulators
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Airman 1st Class Jack Pepper (with goggles) attempts a maneuver on a simulator while Lt. Col. Paul Vicars looks on. Pepper is among the first participants in Pilot Training Next, which uses off-the-shelf virtual reality technology., Credit: Carson Frame / American Homefront
Facing a shortage of pilots, the Air Force is experimenting with ways to make training programs faster and less expensive.

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  • Added: Aug 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 5
Helping people deal with post traumatic stress
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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Dr. Julian Ford has a program and a grant targeted to help veterans deal with post traumatic stress syndrome. Dr. Ford's research, clinical work, a...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2011
  • Length: 49:40
Returning veterans transition from combat to campuses
From: KALW
Caption: Randolph Martinez is a member of the Veterans Alliance club at the City College of San Francisco. , Credit: Laura Flynn
As veterans return to school to take advantage of the new GI Bill, many have found that campuses often aren’t ready to handle the administrative de...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2011
  • Length: 04:55
Sisters in Arms
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
Coping with war
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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Megan Haller interviews a teen whose dad is currently in Iraq and talks with Brian Griggs who hosts deployment and reunion workshops for kids who h...

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  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Judging the Press
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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News and features on the War in Iraq

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  • Added: May 19, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1