Aleksandr had only two weeks of training in Russia before being sent to the front lines in Ukraine in the summer of 2023. About a month later, he became an amputee. Learning to live without his right leg is taking much longer than two weeks. “There was a lot of …
New Jersey veteran Stephen Robinson thinks about the logistics of growing mushrooms and sending them to farmers’ markets and restaurants — a far cry from the logistics he managed as an Army convoy commander during battles in Iraq. He runs an urban farm in south New Jersey called Urban Farmer …
This is an updated version of a story first published on April 28, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Two million Americans served in Afghanistan and Iraq. And at least 600,000 have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. For the most part, the U.S. is doing better recognizing and …