http://www.notalone.com/ is a great site and resource for anyone who has deployed to combat and come back or for a family member or close friend of a service-member who has deployed and is now back. I was turned onto this site by Brandon Friedman of http://votevets.org.
There are stories here that you can relate to or you can easily reach to others like you and get help. You can reach out via the forums and link up with other guys/gals that have deployed and come back to deal with the reintegration at home. It only takes a few minutes to click around the site and may be the best few minutes you have spent since getting back. The people that run this site are not book-trained shrinks or chaplains, they are soldiers, they are families and friends of soldiers. Most importantly they are like you, becuase you are NOT ALONE.
A top U.S. defense official praised China's contribution to anti-piracy efforts off the coast of Somalia on Saturday, following two days of talks in Beijing that marked a resumption of military consultations after a half-year suspension.
Three and a half years after Hurricane Katrina, the National Guard is pulling the last of its troops out of New Orleans this weekend, leaving behind a city still desperate and dangerous. Residents long distrustful of the city's police force are worried they will have to fend for themselves.
Afghanistan's interior minister says there may be between 10,000 and 15,000 Taliban fighting inside his country, and the insurgent group is operating across about 17 provinces.
The Marines at Camp Lejeune now know when their missions to Iraq will end, but they also know their deadly days of fighting overseas are far from over. President Obama came to the camp near North Carolina's coastline to announce the exact day combat operations will end in Iraq "By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end," Obama told them.
President Barack Obama leaned heavily toward field commanders' preferences in settling a time frame for ending the war in Iraq, as he weighed the fervent desires of the anti-war community that propelled him into office and the equally strong worries of the generals commanding troops in the war zone.
Leave no one behind. It's a concept understood by anyone who served in the military. And it provides the foundation for a veterans court that could begin as soon as spring, Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Michael E. McCarthy told lawmakers.
