By Debbie Gregory. Search and rescue crews are still holding out last hopes for finding the twelve Marines missing in Hawaii since late Thursday night, when their Super Stallion helicopters failed to return to base. Searchers have found life rafts and other debris that were carried aboard the aircraft, but still have had no sign […]
By Debbie Gregory. Marine veteran Thomas Brennan, a medically retired sergeant-turned-journalist, wants to ensure that the war stories of his generation are told. To that end, Brennan is launching The War Horse, an independent non-profit journalism site dedicated to chronicling the stories of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The plan for stage one of […]
By Debbie Gregory. While Alaskans technically gained the right to use medical marijuana 18 years ago, there are no state-licensed dispensaries, and only six qualifying illnesses for medical marijuana use, according to NORML. In a bold move to help the state’s veterans, private residents in Alaska are providing cannabis to veterans, free of charge. Alaska Green […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Office of the Army Surgeon General has released the inaugural Health of the Force (HOF) report, which provides a snapshot of the health of active duty Soldiers on U.S. based installations in 2014. The Health of the Force report, released by Army Medical Command (MEDCOM) has tracked and collected health care […]
By Debbie Gregory. In one of the most alarming and despicable statistics released by the Pentagon, hundreds of military children are being sexually abused each year, with more inmates in military prisons for child sex crimes than for any other offense. Incidents involving sexual assault in which the children of service members are victims occur […]
By Debbie Gregory. Many veterans who fought to protect and defend our country have continued to fight in order to get the support they need from the federal government. Fortunately, help is on the way for veterans living with hepatitis C, one of the greatest threats facing those who have served. Congress has earmarked $1.5 […]
By Debbie Gregory. As the Air Force tries to retain drone pilots, the service branch is offering critical skills retention bonuses of $125,000 if the pilots agree to serve five more years. The Air Force said that 18X RPA pilots who have accumulated six years of aviation service, following their undergraduate RPA pilot training, are […]
By Debbie Gregory. Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, Dr. Richard J. Redett and Dr. Gerald Brandacher, surgeons at Johns Hopkins, hope that within the next year, a young soldier with a horrific injury from a bomb blast in Afghanistan will be the recipient of the first penis transplant. The organ should develop urinary function, sensation and, […]
By Debbie Gregory. Part of what we do here at MilitaryConnection.com is connecting our audience with great companies and non-profit organizations that work to make life better for those who serve, veterans, and their loved ones. We are not at all surprised that the vast majority of the organizations we work with are founded and […]
By Debbie Gregory. Mark Twain wrote, “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” And now some veterans are echoing Twain’s words. The federal government is taking responsibility for wrongly declaring more than 100 veterans dead, when they were, indeed, still alive. As a result, the government is changing the way it is confirming […]
