COUNTERING MILITARY RECRUITMENT
Articles: Military Service: Casualties
Suicide Attempt Prompts Court-Martial
The Washington Post, December 03, 2007
Injured in Iraq, a Soldier Hobbles Toward Recovery
ANDREW JACOBS, New York Times, November 25, 2007
Pittsburgh Soldier Injured In Iraq Asked To Pay Back Bonus Money
ThePittsburghChannel, Nov. 22, 2007
2007 Is Deadliest Year for U.S. Troops in Iraq
DAMIEN CAVE, The New York Times, November 7, 2007
Bomb Kills Female Soldier in Iraq
Christian Berthelsen, The Los Angeles Times, November 4, 2007
Scientists: Brain Injuries From War Worse Than Thought
Gregg Zoroya, USA Today, September 24, 2007
2 G.I.’s, Skeptical but Loyal, Die in a Truck Crash in Iraq
DAVID STOUT, New York Times, September 13, 2007
Nine American Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Qassim Abdul Zahra, The Associated Press, September 10, 2007
U.S. Deports Parents of Dead Soldiers
Domenico Maceri, New America Media, September 5, 2007
Army colonel draws fire for stress study
ALISON YOUNG, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 3, 2007
Trainers Faulted in GI Death
Associated Press, August 29, 2007
Cancer in Iraq Vets Raises Possibility of Toxic Exposure
Carla McClain, The Arizona Daily Star, August 26, 2007
War’s Chilling Reality
BOB HERBERT, New York Times, August 21, 2007
Army troop suicide rate at its highest in 26 years
Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press, August 20th, 2007
Suicides in Iraq; It's Worse Than You Thought
Gary Ater, The Ameican Chronical, August 19, 2007
2006 Suicide Rate for Soldiers Sets a Record for the Army
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The New York Times, August 17, 2007
GI Who Paid to be Shot not Indicted
Associated Press, August 16, 2007
Everett soldier who joined army for his daughter killed in Iraq
ROB PIERCY, KING Local, July 27, 2007
The Imperative of War: A Life Recruited at 17, Taken at 18
JIM DWYER, Behaind the Times, July 18, 2007
GRAY ELEGY -- The War's Oldest Casualties; In Iraq War, Death Also Comes To Soldiers in Autumn of Life
EDWARD WYATT, The New York Times, July 18, 2004
Soldier who got parents' OK to enlist at 17 killed in Iraq
ASSOCIATED PRESS, July 17, 2007
Pentagon Contracts Put Troops at Risk
Associated Press, July 12, 2007
QUEENS RESIDENT KILLED IN IRAQ, 18
MATTHEW CHAYES, News Day, July 11, 2007
Troubled Soldier Gets Demoted, Not Treated
Aaron Glantz, Inter Press Service, July 6, 2007
Pentagon Report Criticizes Troops' Mental-Health Care
Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post, June 16, 2007
Fort Hood Searchers Find Dead Soldier
Associated Press, June 13, 2007
Attacks on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grow in Lethality, Complexity
Ann Scott Tyson and John Ward Anderson, Washington Post, June 3, 2007
Amputee Soldiers Return to Active Duty
MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press, May 30, 2007
Asked to Serve Again, a Soldier Goes Down Fighting
DAN BARRY, New York Times, May 27, 2007
Endless worry
Stephen Deere, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, May 27, 2007
Vets visit Carson, say Army failing traumatized troops
Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News, May 17, 2007
Trained to Harm: How the Military Abuses Its Own
JoAnn Wypijewski, The Washington Spectator, May 10, 2007
Former Marine Claims Illness From Mystery Vaccine
WLWT Local, May 7, 2007
Marine Charged in Shooting
Associated Press, May 03, 2007
Tillman's Brother Blasts Military
Associated Press, April 24, 2007
Soldier Killed in Training Exercise
Associated Press, April 19, 2007
Insult to Injury
Linda Robinson, US News & World Report, April 16, 2007
How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits
JOSHUA KORS, The Nation, April 9, 2007
Soldier in New Friendly Fire Case Did Not Get Full Training
Greg Mitchell, Editor and Publisher, April 4, 2007
A Salute for His Wounded, a Last Touch for His Dead
RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr., New York Times, April 2, 2007
US Death Toll in March Is Twice Iraq Forces
Steven R. Hurst, Associated Press, March 31, 2007
FALLEN OREGON SOLDIER
Winston Ross, The Register-Guard, March 31, 2007
Disuse of System Is Cited in Gaps in Soldiers’ Care
IAN URBINA and RON NIXON, The New York Times, March 30, 2007
Death of a Marine
BOB HERBERT, New York Times, March 19, 2007
Mental Illness Plagues Current Vets
Christian Lowe, Military.com, March 13, 2007
War and Liquor a Perilous Mix for U.S. Troops
PAUL von ZIELBAUER, New York Times, March 13, 2007
THE WOUNDED: Taking On the System; For War's Gravely Injured, A Challenge to Find Care
DEBORAH SONTAG AND LIZETTE ALVAREZ, New York Times, March 12, 2007
The Army is ordering injured troops to go to Iraq
Mark Benjamin, Salon.com, Mar. 11, 2007
Witness slams 'nightmares' of Army medical system
CNN.com, March 6, 2007
'It Is Just Not Walter Reed'
Anne Hull and Dana Priest, Washington Post, March 5, 2007
Hospital Officials Knew of Neglect
Anne Hull and Dana Priest, Washington Post, March 1, 2007
Pentagon: Wounded troops at Walter Reed can't talk to the media
Joshua Holland, Alternet.org, February 28, 2007
Long Iraq Tours Can Make Home a Trying Front
LIZETTE ALVAREZ, New York Times, February 23, 2007
Small towns face deep war scars
KIMBERLY HEFLING, The Associated Press, February 20, 2007
Wounded soldiers face neglect, frustration at Army's top medical facility
Dana Priest and Anne Hull, The Washington Post, Feb 18, 2007
The Forgotten Families
Donna St. George, Washington Post, February 16, 2007
Told to Wait, a Marine Dies
Charles M. Sennott, Boston Globe, February 11, 2007
The Forgotten American Dead
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch. com, January 25, 2007
Another Grim Milestone: 500 Amputees
MICHAEL WEISSKOPF, Time, Jan. 18, 2007
Military Faces Mental Crisis
USA Today, January 17, 2007
Sick, Literally, of Fighting in Iraq
Aaron Glantz, International Press Service, January 14th, 2007
Surging From Kenai: Bush's Sacrificial Americans
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com, January 11, 2007
Soldier Diagnosed With Mental Problems
Associated Press, January 10, 2007
Army urged dead soldiers to return to duty
Associated Press, Jan 5, 2007
IED Changes Lives of Survivors
USA Today, January 03, 2007
3,000 Deaths in Iraq, Countless Tears at Home
LIZETTE ALVAREZ and ANDREW LEHREN, The New York Times, January 1, 2007
THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ; 3,000 Deaths in Iraq, Countless Tears at Home
LIZETTE ALVAREZ AND ANDREW LEHREN; MARK MAZZETTI AND GRIFF PALMER CONTRIBUTED REPORTING, New York Times, January 1, 2007
Distant War May Have Claimed Md. Soldier
Megan Greenwell, Washington Post, December 29, 2006
Reservist Due for Iraq Is Killed in Standoff With Police
Megan Greenwell, Washington Post, December 27, 2006
Repeat Iraq Tours Raise Risk of PTSD, Army Finds
Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post, December 20, 2006
GI suicides in Iraq doubled in '05
Reuters, December 19, 2006
The Heros The Healing: Military Medicine from the Frontlines to the Homefront
Neal Shea, National Georgraphic, Nov. 21 2006
A casualty far from the battlefield
KATE GURNETT, Times Union, November 13, 2006
When the War Comes Home
Peter Slevin, Washington Post, October 30, 2006
Postwar life for Iraq, Afghan vets is anything but normal
James Janega and Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, October 29, 2006
Brother of N.F.L. Star Posts Antiwar Essay
RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD, New York Times, October 24, 2006
Marine killed in Iraq rushed to boot camp after Chelsea High
Associated Press, October 23, 2006
Troops With Stress Disorders Being Redeployed
CBS News, October 22nd, 2006
A star graduate from West Point, killed in Iraq, is laid to rest. But what does her death tell us about the price America is paying for freedom in Iraq?
NATHAN THORNBURGH, Associated Press, Sep. 28, 2006
A Broken, De-Humanized Military in Iraq
Dahr Jamail, t r u t h o u t, September 26, 2006
Soldier dies the death she said she feared
Wendy Solomon and John J. Moser, Morning Call, September 23, 2006
The New Wartime Body
Izzy "Socket" Klatzker, wiretapmag.org, September 6, 2006
Review of Landmark Study Finds Fewer Vietnam Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress
Benedict Carey, New York Times, August 18, 2006
One Day in Iraq, One Lifetime to Recover
AARON GIFFORD, Newshouse, August 17, 2006
The Major Sees an Epidemic on the Way
Bob Kerr, Providence Journal, August 6, 2006
Voices from the Front: Vets in Their Own Words
City Belt (New Jersey), July 17, 2006
Adequacy of Mental Health Screening and Care in the Military Is
Questioned
Richard A. Sherer, Psychiatric Times, Vol. XXIII, No. 8, July 2006
Recruiter in 'Fahrenheit' Mourned
Associated Press, July 9, 2006
Marine, 18, Threatens Suicide, Holds Off Police for 7 Hours in Loveland
Felix Doligosa Jr., Rocky Mountain News, July 6, 2006
Troops Risk Undetected Brain Injury
Gregg Zoroya, USA Today, June 6, 2006
Bringing It All Back Home
Scott Anderson, New York Times, May 28, 2006
Army Suicides Up Since Iraq War
Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press, May 22, 2006
Army Acts to Curb Abuses of Injured Recruits
Ralph Blumenthal, New York Times, May 12, 2006
Killed by the U.S. Army
JoAnn Wypijewski, AlterNet, May 9, 2006
Soldier Found Dead After Apparent Suicide
Associated Press, April 28, 2006
For Some Families, Notification of Army Deaths Repeats Pain
Lizette Alvarez, New York Times, April 7, 2006
Details Emerge about Death of a Houston Native in a Marine pool; 2 Face Charges
Anne Marie Kilday, Houston Chronicle, April 1, 2006
Troubled Soldiers Turn to Chaplains for Help
Patrik Jonsson, Christian Science Monitor, March 8, 2006
Police to protect vandalized home of fallen soldier
Associated Press, March 2, 2006
DOD launching program to help curb domestic violence
Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes, March 2, 2006
Veterans Report Mental Distress
Shankar Vedantam, The Washington Post, March 1, 2006
Dead Marine's letters tell of regret, illness
Associated Press, February 28th, 2005
Marine Instructor Acquitted
Associated Press, February 23, 2006
Military counseling bill goes to House
TYLER PETERSON, Daily Herald, February 22, 2006
Strain and Battle Fatigue Hit Home Front
USA Today, February 21, 2006
Troops who survive bomb blasts often face a life with prosthetics
JULIET MACUR, THE NEW YORK TIMES, February 13, 2006
Healing, With New Limbs and Fragile Dreams
JULIET MACUR, New York Times, February 12, 2006
Can We Come Home Now?
Charlie Anderson, t r u t h o u t, February 11th,2006
Marine's Drowning Death Is Detailed
Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times, February 6, 2006
Scarred beneath the Skin
hristian Davenport, The Washington Post, February 4, 2006
A New Kind of Care in a New Era of Casualties
ERIK ECKHOLM, New York Times, January 31, 2006
Veteran's Mother's State of Our Family Address
Georgia Stillwel, t r u t h o u t, January 31, 2006
THE WAR WITHIN
Matthew B. Stannard, SF Chronicle, January 29, 2006
The Life And Death Of An Iraq Veteran Who Could Take No More
Andrew Buncombe and Oliver Duff, The Independent, January 25, 2006
Knowing the risks, soldier gave his all
APRIL SIMPSON, New York Times, January 24, 2006
The Forgotten Wounded of Iraq
Ron Kovic, Truthdig.com, January 18, 2006
The Stress of Guarding the Couch
JEFFREY GETTLEMAN, New York Times January 15, 2006
Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor
MICHAEL MOSS, New York Times, January 7, 2006
Fallujah's "Malboro Man" has PTSD
Steven D, NEWYORK POST, Jan. 4th, 2006
A Life, Wasted
Paul E. Schroeder, Washington Post, January 3, 2006
Interview with Spc. Michael Harmon, OIF Vet and Combat Medic
Jay Shaft, Coalition For Free Thought In Media, 12/18/05
TSA Wants Access to Veterans' Files to Add 'Mental Defectives' to Watch List
Jeff Stein, Congressional Quarterly, December 9, 2005
Military Misleads Press, Families, about How 10 Marines Died Last Week in Iraq
Editor & Publisher, December 6, 2005
Suicides renew focus in military on alleviating toll of combat stress
DAVID McLEMORE, The Dallas Morning News, December 3, 2005
The Struggle to Gauge a War's Psychological Cost
BENEDICT CAREY, New York Times, November 26, 2005
An Army Ready to Snap
Bob Herbert, The New York Times, November 10, 2005
Man Dies After Attack At Mall in Pr. George's Death Is 150th Homicide in County in 2005
Allison Klein, Washington Post, November 9, 2005
"What a Difference Embedding Makes"
STAN GOFF, Counterpunch, November 8, 2005
Suicide Car Bombing Kills 4 GIs in Baghdad
Sabrina Tavernise and Kirk Semple, The New York Times, November 8, 2005
Silence In the Face of Truth: The Downing Street Memo
Dante Zappala, TomPaine.com, November 7, 2005
Is Jimmy Massey Telling The Truth About Iraq?
Ron Harris, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 6, 2005
15,220 Live with the Wounds of War
Phil Sands, The San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 2005
Confessions of a Marine
Jean-Paul Mari, Le Nouvel Observateur, October 27, 2005
Quarter of Dead are National Guard Troops
Associated Pres, October 26, 2005
Military's Advice to Reporters: 2,000 Dead in Iraq 'Not a Milestone'
Editor & Publisher Staff, October 25, 2005
1 in 4 Iraq vets ailing on return
Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY, 10/18/2005
For Injured U.S. Troops, 'Financial Friendly Fire'
Donna St. George, Washington Pos, October 14, 2005
Friends Are Lost In Battle Days Apart
Avis Thomas-Lester, Washington Post, August 30, 2005
Deaths sow doubt, grief at city school
Lynn Anderson, Baltimore Sun, August 30, 2005
A Mercenary Society
Robert Jensen , ZNet Commentary, August 27, 2005
Winter Soldiers' Stories
Nian Berman, AlterNe, August 25th, 2005
You Mowed Down His Cross
Perry Jefferies, t r u t h o u t, August 18, 2005
U.S. soldier chronicles abuse, hard times in Iraq
Reuters, Aug 17, 2005
‘Support our troops' — bring them home alive
Al Neuharth, USA Today, August 11, 2005
Talking Wounded
Peter Carlson, Washington Post, August 10, 2005
A Young Man Dies in Iraq
Chris Christensen, Tomdispatch.com, August 6, 2005
Marines Have One of the Roughest Jobs
Associated Press, August 04, 2005
Iraq veteran arrested in killing
FRANK CURRERI and KEITH ROGERS, Las Vegas Review-Journal, August 02, 2005
Marine sergeant charged with homicide
Larry Shaughnessy, CNN Washington Bureau, August 1, 2005
As Recruiting Suffers, Military Reins in Abuses at Boot Camp
ERIK ECKHOLM, New York Times, July 26, 2005
Navy, State Target Payday Loan Stores
Tony Perry, latimes, July 24, 2005
Landstuhl treats its 25,000th patient in war on terror
Steve Mraz, Stars and Stripes, July 19, 2005
Help at hand for homeless vets
Ki-Min Sung, San Diego Union-Tribune, July 16, 2005
The battle after the battle
LES BLUMENTHAL, The News Tribune, July 11th, 2005
The Span of War
PTSD Among Poor Soldiers: Herold's Story
Joseph Shapiro, Morning Edition, July 7, 2005
Businesspeople In Guard, Reserves Pay Price For Serving Their Country
Harry Levins, Post-Dispatch, July 7, 2005
Sons and Soldiers
The New Yorker, July 4, 2005
Hispanic war dead get recognition
CHERYL L. REED, Chicago Sun Times, July 3, 2005
June is 5th-deadliest month for U.S. troops in Iraq war
Tom Lasseter, Philadelphia Inquirer, Jul. 01, 2005
Army Recruits Abused in Training
Associated Press, June 28, 2005
Generation Debt: The New Economics of Being Young
Anya Kamenetz, villagevoice, June 27th, 2005
Testing for depleted uranium in La. soldiers passes into law
Jan Clifford, Louisiana Weekly, June 27, 2005
Pentagon's war stories leave a legacy of doubt
RHONDA CHRISS LOKEMAN, Knight Ridder Newspapers, May 15, 2005
Predatory Lending and the Military:
The Law and Geography of 'Payday' Loans in Military Towns
CHRISTOPHER LEWIS PETERSON,STEVEN M. GRAVES , SSRN Electronic Paper Collection, March 28, 2005