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Hormonal Health Beyond the Uniform
Why Military Members and First Responders Need a Better Conversation About TRT and HRT By Sgt. Ayman Kafel, MSC Medical disclaimer: This article Continue Reading
The Words I Carried Home
By Raul Medrano During a firefight in Afghanistan, one of our machine gunners was crawling through the dirt, searching for a spring. The spring Continue Reading
Blueberries and Bracelets
Adam was not so comfortably settled into his fighting position after consolidating on the objective following the early-morning assault. He was glad Continue Reading
Stop Hurting and Retraumatizing Gold Star Parents
This first appeared in The Havok Journal October 27, 2016. the issues discussed are just as relevant a decade later. When Congressman Frederica Continue Reading
Buying the Equipment Wasn’t the Hard Part
By William Brooke Webb Jr.The hardest part of adding a new testing capability to my laboratory was researching and finding the right team to do the Continue Reading
Transferring a Parent’s Home in a Panic Can Delay Nursing Home Coverage
Photo by Age Cymru on Unsplash When a parent needs nursing home care, families often have to make big decisions before they have had time to think Continue Reading
We Probably Learned the Wrong Lessons from the GWOT
Twenty-five years after September 11, 2001, the U.S. military is adapting from two decades dominated by Iraq and Afghanistan toward an environment Continue Reading
Challenges After Service: Special Warfare Combat Crewmen
By Anthony Smith It was sometime around midnight; we were sitting in the dark, blacked out, with no lights and no movement. We were watching Continue Reading
Downsizing After Service: What Veterans Should Know About HECM for Purchase
Photo by Ian MacDonald on Unsplash Plenty of veterans spend their careers moving every few years, then finally buy a house and stay put for Continue Reading
Where Doubt Breaks
I was given a writing prompt of just one word—“Threshold”—recently in a veteran writing class. Instead of writing about the obvious threshold I Continue Reading
Marion, IL Truck Accidents: Protecting Your Rights After a Crash
Photo by Carl Tronders on Unsplash A crash with a semi-truck is not like a fender bender with another car. The truck can weigh many times more than Continue Reading