SFTT has been reporting for years on the distasteful - read, rampant corruption - in our military procurement process.  We are not finger-pointers, we simply comment on the many government auditing studies that clearly indicate that our military procurement process is out of control and, yes, corrupt from top to ...

According to an article published in the Washington Post by correspondents incinerated partial remains of at least 274 American troops in a Virginia landfill, far more than the military had acknowledged, before halting the secretive practice three years ago.  The landfill dumping was concealed from families who had authorized the ...

In yet another glaring example of seeing the trees rather than the forest, US Senators are now patting themselves on the back for proposing new legislation that would theoretically make it more difficult for military contractors to use counterfeit parts in combat equipment and protective gear supplied to our military ...

As indicated earlier, SFTT is thrilled to have Dr. Henry Grayson as Chairman of SFTT's Medical Task Force to help develop effective programs to treat our brave men and women suffering from PTSD. PTSD for veterans of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is now reaching epidemic proportions. Government studies ...

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with SFTT Chairperson, Eilhys England Hackworth the wife, partner, co-author, and muse of Stand For the Troops ("SFTT") founder, the late Colonel David H. Hackworth—America’s most valor-decorated soldier—from the late 1980s until his death. Since the passing of this great American hero in May ...

The US military budget is roughly $700 billion  a year and defense leaders are being asked to cut costs of this sizable and growing budget.    According to a recent article published by NPR, the defense budget represents approximately 50% of total discretionary federal spending.   While the Department of Defense has ...

In yet  another indication that our military procurement process is out of control is the news that Point Blank - who makes much of the body armor vests worn by our military -  has finally settled a long-standing suit with the Department of Justice. According to a news release cited ...

Several news organizations have commented on a new treatment using comforting sights. The world will be one he’s built himself in visits to his clinic, where, using biofeedback to track his response, he has trained himself to relax when he sees these images." The program reminds me of Stanly Kubrick's ...

As military service members deployed in Iraq begin come home, the alarm bells are beginning to sound as the Veterans Administration ("VA")  now seems over-stretched to deal with alarming number of cases of service members with PTSD. According to a recently published Rand study, excerpts of which are reported  by ...

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