Mental illness is leading cause of hospitalization for active-duty troops

DoD and the VA have spent over $2 billion on drugs since 2001 to treat mental illness and PTSD, depsite evidence that such drugs can make things worse attempting to treat sharply higher rates of hospitalization. (In this, they are following the current and deplorable medical trend of treating everything with medication and not [...]

Pentagon plans to go green, alt fuel, and conserve fuel

Nellis Air Force Base solar farm

One reason why is what Steve Earle sings about in Home To Houston. It’s about a truck driver in Iraq driving a gas tanker under seriously dangerous conditions.

When I pulled out of Basra they all wished me luck Just like they always did before With a bulletproof [...]