EOD techs have the highest rate of suicide in the service. Veterans say there’s been little progress on protecting them.
Daniel Johnson
Daniel Johnson is a Ph.D. graduate of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was a journalist for the U.S. Army in 2016 in Iraq, and has reported for The New York Times and The Washington Post. Work he contributed to on blast overpressure injuries was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in national reporting in 2024.
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Both Parties Try to Rally the Troops as Election Looms
Candidates are battling for North Carolina’s military vote, a bloc traditionally seen as conservative.
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The War Inside
Some of the worst brain injuries soldiers face come from their own weapons, and North Carolina is at the epicenter of this growing crisis.