The American Homefront Project
The American Homefront Project features reporting on military life and veterans issues.
We're visiting bases to chronicle how troops are working and living. We're meeting military families. We're talking with veterans to learn about the challenges they face. We cover major policy issues at the Pentagon and Department of Veterans Affairs, and we report on family issues service members and veterans experience in their daily lives. From the youngest military recruits to the veterans of World War II, we're reporting in-depth stories about Americans who serve.
Funding for The American Homefront Project comes from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
-
Each threatened shutdown can lead to stress in the military community about missing paychecks and losing access to federal programs.
-
A lack of barracks space - as well as poor living conditions in some barracks buildings - are contributing to complaints about sailors' quality of life.
-
Congress is considering whether to override a VA policy that critics say deprives veterans of their gun ownership rights and deters them from seeking care. Veterans may be reported to the FBI’s background check system if they can’t manage their finances.
-
The Transgender American Veterans Association is suing the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, two years after the department said it would provide gender affirmation surgery.
-
A Pentagon report finds that troops' suicides are often preceded by legal or administrative troublesAbout a quarter of all suicide deaths occur among troops caught up in legal or administrative battles - sometimes for minor infractions.
-
A long-term study hopes to shed light on an array of vague symptoms that can affect veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
-
After a string of high-profile deaths and disappearances, the Army is trying harder to find soldiers who fail to report for duty.
-
Staffing shortages and a lack of facilities have contributed to the long waits for childcare, though the situation has improved somewhat since the pandemic.
-
Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Confederacy.
-
The new basic training curriculum aims to better prepare recruits for the uncertainties of war.