Part 2: In 2021, Kjornes was sent to Maxwell Airforce Base in Alabama for a year-long officer training school. Her medical records show the stress aggravated an illness that she first experienced a decade before while in pilot training.

Part 1: Arizona Air National Guard pilot Christine Kjornes spent years battling the Department of Defense for medical benefits and pay after health conditions forced her from the cockpit.

According to the most recent data obtained by CBS News, about 30% of injury claims that are recommended by local commanders are determined not to qualify by the Air National Guard, raising questions among service members about whether correct policies and procedures are followed.

According to Mr. Sorenson: “The Air Force rampantly violates their own regulations and federal law to deny disability benefits, [and] they make the suffering service member fight with their hands tied behind their back to attain medical care and benefits they are entitled to by law, especially those with PTSD or other mental health issues.”

It’s a case that warrants further investigation, Mr. Alvarez said. “What they did to this soldier is sick and demented, and the men who did this to him should not be able to move on as if it never happened.”

Concussion, traumatic brain injury (TBI), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in service members have been misdiagnosed and improperly treated for decades, according to a leading expert. Without treating the brain wound, he says, underlying damage will continue to precipitate, worsening symptoms in many who defend America.

Despite climbing spectacularly through the ranks of the U.S. Army, a lieutenant colonel now faces court-martial for being willing to speak the truth about a suicide investigation at one of the nation's largest military installations.

A former Marine artilleryman injured while fighting ISIS is now fighting for the benefits he's been denied. A group advocating on his behalf says the silence from Congress and the Pentagon is both deafening and disappointing.

In part one of this series, to make his wrongs right, Sergeant Javier E. Ortiz reported the use of cannabis to his healthcare providers. Because a “cocktail” of prescription medications was not working, and worsening his quality of life and health, Ortiz made the regrettable decision to self-medicate with cannabis to fight the demons inside caused by the trauma of war.

A former Marine artilleryman says he was neglected and unjustly treated by the branch after suffering brain injuries during a 2017 campaign to defeat ISIS in Syria.

The United States will need to help South Korea better integrate into bilateral and minilateral agreements to deter such a threat, says a report published by The Center for a New American Security think tank.

China’s “Xi JinPing Says He Is Preparing China For War” so we find ourselves in a situation very similar to the period immediately prior to the United States entry into World War 2. The time we have to prepare for the worst is indeed short.

Twenty years ago today, on March 19, 2003, the war in Iraq started. American and allied forces began the war not on the ground but in the skies.

Mayra Guillén, the sister of murdered Army Spc. Vanessa Guillén, reacted on social media to the trooper's death. Guillén said will be speaking with Basalduaruiz's family soon, but the death brought back memories of her sister's brutal killing on Fort Hood nearly three years ago.

Injured active-duty members of the U.S. military have long been subjected to abusive discharge practices by their leadership – and a retired Air Force officer and an advocacy group are offering a remedy.

David Maxwell, a 30-year Army special forces veteran, said the U.S. military was struggling to enlist newcomers when it needed to build up manpower for a potential confrontation with heavyweight foes like Russia or China.

The consensus now is that the Iraq War was a mistake, a deviation born of post-9/11 madness. In reality, it’s an endeavor that captures the spirit of an age of grift. It was a big con that heralded a thousand more.

"Right now, there are approximately 181,000 veterans in prisons in this country's jails," Chuck Hagel, a former defense secretary and the head of the commission behind the findings, told reporters.

Department of Defense requiring all components to certify that they are no longer implementing vaccine mandate by March 17, 2023.

The Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine will take "a comprehensive look across multiple Air Force Specialty Codes, locations and possible additional cancer" concerns raised by the missileer community at bases in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, according to a Wednesday press release.