I got this from a friend: I remember the day I found out I got into West Point. My mom actually showed up in the hallway of my high school and waited for me to get out of class. She was bawling her eyes out and apologizing that she had opened up my...
Army Sergeant Benjamin Rudy is a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division; he’s also a pirate. Deployed or at home, he’s always quoting some historical fact or joke about pirates, and his coffee mug definately says pirate. However, this...
It appears that there will be far more suicides in the Army this year than last year. So far this year there have been 88 reported suicides among active-duty troops, of which 54 are confirmed. The other 34 are still being investigated. If this...
Two West Point cadets have committed suicide since December and two others attempted suicide in the past two weeks, prompting the academy’s leaders to summon a Surgeon General’s suicide team. The suicides are the first since at least...