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Study links ‘forever chemicals’ to testicular cancer in US troops
The military first documented health concerns surrounding chemicals known as PFAS decades ago yet has continued to use firefighting foam made with them.
By Hannah Norman and Patricia Kime, KFF Health News
New film ‘Retrograde’ documents chaotic final months in Afghanistan
‘Retrograde’ an emotional documentary capturing the final months of the war in Afghanistan.
Documentary chronicles efforts to repatriate American service members missing since WWII
Project Recover has completed more than 60 missions in over 20 countries and located more than 180 Americans once missing in action.
By Jon Simkins
Wild tale of ‘Pablo Eskobear’ & a paratrooper-turned-drug kingpin coming to big screen
Some stories are truly stranger than fiction.
By Jon Simkins
‘Last Out: Elegy of a Green Beret’ adapted to film
Retired Lt. Col. Scott Mann found healing in storytelling as he transitioned out of Special Forces. His play, intended to help other veterans heal, is now being produced as a film.
By Harm Venhuizen
Book excerpt: ‘The Saint I Ain’t: Stories from Sycamore Street’
“The Saint I Ain’t: Stories from Sycamore Street” by Air Force veteran and film composer Bobby Johnston, is an inflammatory coming of age elegy chronicled through short stories set in 1970s Rust Belt America.
By Bobby Johnston
2 wells for drinking water near Naval Base Kitsap contaminated
Two wells bordering Naval Base Kitsap’s southern edge have been found to have potentially harmful levels of contamination caused by a firefighting foam used on the base.
For Kaela, Congress must make PFAS pollution a priority
Congress must direct DoD to quickly confirm the presence of PFAS at hundreds of bases and with a sense of urgency clean up legacy PFAS pollution now — not in 30 years as DoD has proposed.
By Jim Holmes
Navy, Marines drill with Brunei forces, DreamWorks flick causes row
Another week for a simmering South China Sea to start boiling.
‘Combat Obscura’ is a brutally honest look at the blurred morality of the war in Afghanistan
The film’s true brilliance lies in its situational hysteria, an unpredictability that serves as a microcosm of a war with no end.
By Jon Simkins
This Marine went from the ballet to the battlefield — and back again
What do ballet slippers and combat boots have in common? Not much, if you ask most people. But for Marine Corps veteran Román Baca, the two go hand in hand.
By Natalie Gross