Military Life

In San Diego, the Navy has never wavered in its protocols, as the service tries to contain the spread of COVID-19. That has made it tough for one single mother.

Protections designed to help veterans thrown out of the service for conduct tied to combat-related mental health issues don't extend to active duty troops. They face being kicked out for similar issues.

Toys and bicycles were distributed to 1,000 families at "Operation Holiday Joy."

On Monday on Midday Edition we’re bringing you an excerpt from "Institutional Racism In The U.S. Military," a KPBS news special event looking at how racial bias affects who leads the nation's military, how it affects individual service members and some perspectives on how military leadership can address the issue.

Top Marine leaders issued a call to have a conversation surrounding race in the Corps, but Marines say that conversation has never been easy.

Lt. Col Michelle Macander will move on Thursday after leading the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion at Camp Pendleton for two years.

The transition from classroom to virtual learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for many student veterans, and the worries won't end with the spring semester.

In a new episode of KPBS Explore podcast Incoming, author and Army veteran Kayla Williams talks with host Justin Hudnall about serving in Iraq as the most forward-deployed woman of the war at her time. She faced breakdowns in communication and morale both in-country, and then upon returning home in her marriage to a fellow soldier recovering from a traumatic brain injury.

Omni Hampton grew up in a military family, traveling from place to place. She swore she’d never marry a military member. That was before she became a navy wife and mother. On a new episode of KPBS Explore podcast "My First Day," host Andrew Bracken talks to Hampton about her life in the military.

A Southern California organization continues to support the female veteran community 100 years on.