Latest from The Spokesman-Review

• Army launches review of PTSD diagnoses

  May 17, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON — Army leaders are launching a sweeping, independent review of how the service evaluates soldiers with possible post-traumatic stress disorder following recent complaints that some PTSD diagnoses were improperly … 2

• Wash. Army commander removed over PTSD probe

  February 21, 2012 in Region The Army has removed the head of Madigan Army Medical Center in Washington state over an investigation into whether soldiers had a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder reversed to reduce … 5

• Murder suspect’s jailhouse death a mystery to friends, family

  September 15, 2011 in News, City Friends and family say they are baffled by the death of a former Marine and accused killer found dead at the Spokane County Jail last weekend. Tristen Nebrae Jordan, 25, … 1

• Enlisting support

  September 10, 2011 in News on Page A1 Five years ago, fraternal twin brothers from Hauser Lake realized their lifelong dream of enlisting in the U.S. Marines. They were eager to “see action” in Iraq or Afghanistan and … 1

• Writing, therapy help Iraq vet cope

  February 28, 2010 in City on Page A1 The New Year’s Eve party was at a friend’s Coeur d’Alene home, and Kenny McAnally had gone outside for a smoke. Suddenly, fireworks began exploding all around him, and the … 8

• Combat veterans find therapy, support among peers

    September 6, 2009 in City on Page A1 DEER LAKE, Wash. – As a Marine combat engineer, Jesse Bruce helped destroy the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s rule and restore infrastructure to war-torn Iraq. But after an enemy mortar …

• Build in care for veterans

  September 6, 2009 in Opinion on Page B9 Former Marine Chad Olson listed his favorite book on his MySpace page. It was called “I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell.” Last weekend Olson and his wife, Jessica Armstrong, …

• Combat vets find support from peers

    September 5, 2009 in City As a Marine combat engineer, Jesse Bruce helped destroy the remnants of Saddam Hussein’s rule and restore infrastructure to war-torn Iraq. But after an enemy mortar shell exploded in his … 3

• VA doctors protest ‘crisis’

  August 13, 2009 in City on Page A1 Amid a revolt by its staff psychiatrists, the Spokane Veterans Affairs Medical Center has begun expanding a behavioral health department strained by an increasing number of veterans seeking help. In … 4

• VA withholds doctor’s record

  February 18, 2009 in City on Page A5 The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will not say whether the psychiatrist who attended to two veterans who killed themselves last year was involved in other cases resulting in suicide … 5

• VA won’t release records about Spokane psychiatrist

  February 17, 2009 in City The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will not say whether the psychiatrist who attended to two veterans who killed themselves last year was involved in other cases resulting in suicide …