Jared Johns found out too late that swapping messages with the pretty girl from a dating site would mean serious trouble. If only he had known who she really was.

Veteran Andy Chavez’s miraculous journey from coma to Wheelchair Games.

Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.

The lives of a mortician mother and a wayward veteran stepfather.

The Pentagon’s failed campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan left a generation of soldiers with little to fight for but one another.

Orange County’s first serial killer in 25 years stalked homeless men.

How two veterans with PTSD turned a Canadian military town into a medical-marijuana hub.

Summiting one of the world’s toughest peaks gave Julian Torres something an IED blast in Afghanistan had taken away.

An ex-SEAL turns to “ocean therapy” to cope with chronic pain and PTSD.

Troubles and afflictions weigh on counselors and veterans.

"The Fort was actually just an ugly house. Eighteen rooms, two stories. A kitchen, a lavatory, a staircase. One office, one entrance, two exits, thirty-six bunks, four televisions, the mini-library, two footballs, one fútbol, a basketball, and the whole of Big Ben, the biggest backyard in Texas. It housed between twenty-one and thirty-two bodies a year. Most of them stayed a couple months. They found us through each other."

A support group for trans veterans meets in New Orleans, linked to the only VA that is known to treat them with respect.

From equipment that doesn’t fit to an ill-equipped VA medical system.

An Iraq War veteran, now a paramedic, runs into trouble.

“Suddenly, he had to ask for help with buttons, zippers and shoelaces. And he loathes asking for help.”

All told, the military acknowledged this summer, 14 soldiers from the base have been charged or convicted in at least 11 slayings since 2005 — the largest killing spree involving soldiers at a single U.S. military installation in modern history.