By Debbie Gregory. Stephanie Hare is an Illinois native who now lives and works in England. She is also engaged to Marine Corps Capt. Pravin Rajan. Rajan was part of a group of thirteen Marines returning to Camp Pendleton from the Global War on Terror. Flying commercially from Afghanistan to San Diego, the Marines had […]
By Military Connection Staff Writer Joe Silva. PTSD, amputated limbs, shrapnel wounds, migraine headaches, charred skin. These are just some of the more prominent injuries that face our current and future Veterans of the War on Terror. The last few generations have always regarded the generation that fought WWII as the “Greatest Generation.” And they […]
By Debbie Gregory. Army Captain Matt Zeller was the kind of soldier who would never leave a fellow soldier behind, especially one that had saved his life. In 2008, Zeller served for eight months as an embedded combat adviser with the Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Capt. Zeller had read that the Afghan code […]
By Debbie Gregory. The group known as the Consortium on the Health and Readiness of Servicewomen is comprised of more than 30 private and public researchers from the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, as well as from academia, the government and private institutions. Their areas of expertise include epidemiology, neurocognitive psychology, nursing and family […]
By Debbie Gregory. Top Air Force lawyers are under fire after urging subordinates to rally against a Senate proposal that would overhaul the military’s sexual assault policies. The Air Force has its own criminal court system. An Air Force Judge Advocate General lawyer assigned to this system typically starts out as a prosecuting attorney to […]
By Debbie Gregory. In an effort to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs can continue to make disability compensation and pension payments to veterans, in the event of another government shutdown, new legislation was introduced by Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Protecting Those Who Protected Us Act of 2013, S.1564, […]
By Debbie Gregory. An article written by Kevin Baron, executive editor of Defense One, stipulated that each troop in Afghanistan will nearly double in cost in the last year of the war, to $2.1 million. For the past five years the average troop cost roughly $1.3 million. Defense Department officials argue the added cost is […]
By Debbie Gregory. If you have never been to Arlington National Cemetery, now you can take a virtual walk through Arlington without ever leaving home. For a little background on Arlington National Cemetery, in May, 1861, a young Union Army officer rushed into the Custis-Lee mansion. “You must pack up all you value immediately and […]
By Debbie Gregory. On October 23rd, the I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) was activated during a ceremony at Camp Pendleton, in preparation for an upcoming deployment to Afghanistan in 2014. Brigadier Gen. Daniel D. Yoo, commanding general of I MEF (Fwd), and Sgt. Maj. Douglas E. Berry uncased the unit’s battle colors during the ceremony. […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Marine Corps has cancelled plans for a uniform change that would have created a unisex service cap. The new female cover was floated in a Corps-wide survey as one of two possible options for a unisex cover that all Marines would wear. They were considering the idea of issuing one cap […]
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