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The Navy has beefed up mental health care for sailors dealing with 'rude awakening' of military life

Caption: The Navy opened the Embedded Mental Health Clinic at Naval Base San Diego in October. Twenty providers work at the clinic, which serves thousands of sailors. , Credit: Andrew Dyer/American Homefront

After two deadly collisions and a cluster of suicides, the Navy is providing more mental health counseling to sailors where they work.

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A Pentagon-appointed committee says easy access to guns on military bases leads to more suicides

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Anthony Muhlstadt participates in exercises aboard the USS Bataan March 7, 2020. Muhlstadt was a 23-year-old Marine Corps sergeant when he died by suicide November 19, 2021, at Marine Corps Base Twentynine Palms in California., Credit: Kaitlin Rowell / U.S. Navy

The independent committee is calling on the Defense Department to make personal firearms harder to buy and access on base.

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Arlington National Cemetery is filling up, so the Army may limit who can be buried there

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Kathi Dugan, 73, retired from the Navy after 30 years. Her parents are both buried at Arlington National Cemetery, but Dugan may not be able to join them if the Army proceeds with a plan to cut eligibility for in-ground burials., Credit: Desiree D'Iorio / American Homefront

Many former troops consider an Arlington burial their final veterans benefit. But space for in-ground burials is getting scarce, so some vets may b...

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The VA is teaching intimacy skills to veterans to try to save their marriages

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: John and Barbara Browning attended a Warrior to Soul Mate session to improve their marriage in light of the John’s PTSD symptoms and other health challenges. 'He never told me what he went through in Vietnam until he went to pieces,' Barbara said., Credit: Carson Frame/American Homefront

The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering couples retreats to help former service members communicate with their spouses.

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GN_4.21_Operation Safe Haven

From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4

A healing home for war vets.

For military spouses with professional licenses, each move can mean a bureaucratic fight

From: American Homefront Project

Caption: Aleta Nims has lived in Potsdam, N.Y. for a year. She's still working to get re-licensed as a mental health counselor., Credit: Sarah Harris/American Homefront

When military families move, the careers of service members' spouses may grind to a halt because they lack a professional license in their new state.

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The Happiness of the Human Family and Its Familiar Enemy

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, Tolstoi wrote as the first sentence in Anna Karenina. The epitaph he c...

Why West Point's 2015 Cadet First Captain Now Sees Memorial Day In a New Way

From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism

Caption: West Point Austin Welch, Credit: westpoint.edu

The United States Military Academy's Cadet First Captain Austin Welch shares how the loss of a dear friend changed not only his perspective on Memo...

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