News tagged with military service
S.Korea raises alert on N.Korean cyber-attacks
South Korea's military has raised its alert against potential cyber-attacks from North Korea after the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, the defence ministry said Tuesday.
Dec 20, 2011 |
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Soyuz rocket lifts off with military satellite payload
A Soyuz rocket lifted off on Friday from Europe's space base in French Guiana, placing into orbit six low-orbit satellites with military or joint military-industrial use.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2011 |
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Dogs of war: Historian shows the role of canines in World War II
Seventy years since the United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a BYU historian has a new look at an often overlooked breed of soldier.
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Outsiders on the front lines
Women have a long history of protesting war, but anti-war protest by women who've served as soldiers is a relatively new phenomenon. While there's a growing rate of women serving in western militaries (with some women in ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 01, 2011 |
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Does the military make the man or does the man make the military?
"Be all you can be," the Army tells potential recruits. The military promises personal reinvention. But does it deliver? A new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Almost one third of Iraq/Afghanistan women veterans with PTSD report military sexual trauma
Thirty-one percent of women veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan who were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder reported military sexual trauma (MST), in contrast to one percent of men with PTSD, according to a study ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Study: Extramarital sex and divorce more common among veterans
Veterans were significantly more likely to have ever engaged in extramarital sex and ever gotten divorced than people who were never in the military, according to new research to be presented at the 106th Annual Meeting of ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Secret Service to probe hack on Fox News Twitter
(AP) -- The Secret Service said Monday it will investigate the hacking of Fox's political Twitter account over updates claiming that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. ...
Jul 04, 2011 |
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Osteoarthritis incidence significantly higher among US military personnel
New research shows significantly higher osteoarthritis (OA) incidence rates in military populations than among comparable age groups in the general population. The magnitude of the difference in OA rates between military ...
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Eurocopter X3: The world's fastest copter
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you asked a child how they would make a helicopter go faster, they would probably tell you to add another engine. The answer would be Zen simple and dead right. The engineers at Eurocopter ...
May 20, 2011 |
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Improved behavioral health needed to respond to rising number of suicides among US Armed Forces
U.S. military officials should improve efforts to identify those at-risk and improve both the quality and access to behavioral health treatment in response to a sharp rise in suicide among members of nation's armed forces, ...
Feb 17, 2011 |
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Women war veterans face higher risk of mental health problems during pregnancy
Pregnancy among women veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan appears to increase their risk for mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a study published ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 21, 2010 |
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22 charged for prank emails, texts after S.Korea attacks
South Korean police said Friday they had charged 22 people with spreading rumours and false information online or in text messages after North Korea shelled an island in the South, a news report said.
Nov 26, 2010 |
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Israel army using Facebook to rumble draft-dodgers
Around a 1,000 Israeli women who tried to avoid military service by pretending to be religious have been caught out through their Facebook accounts, an army spokesman said on Tuesday.
Nov 23, 2010 |
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New cyberattacks in SKorea; sites suffer no damage
(AP) -- Two South Korean government websites were struck by the second cyberattack in a week, but suffered no major damage, the government said Saturday.
Jun 12, 2010 |
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