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Accountability for the Armed Forces

84 stories published since 2010

In Navy Disasters, Neglect, Mistakes, and 17 Lost Sailors

How We Investigated the Navy’s Twin Disasters in the Pacific

Years of Warnings, Then Death and Disaster

Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy

Can the U.S. Military Build a Border Wall Even as It Struggles to Rebuild Itself?

Marines Move to Tackle Racial Extremists in the Corps

Defense Inspector General to Investigate Military’s Toxic Open Burning

Canadian Research Adds to Worry Over an Environmental Threat the Pentagon Has Downplayed for Decades

Long Story Short

The Bomb That Went Off Twice

The Breakthrough: Used as ‘Guinea Pigs’ by the U.S. Military, Then Discarded

Will Texas Massacre Finally Get Military to Improve its Criminal Reporting System?

How Military Outsourcing Turned Toxic

Dangerous Pollutants in Military’s Open Burns Greater Than Thought, Tests Indicate

McCain’s Brain Cancer Draws Renewed Attention to Possible Agent Orange Connection

Kaboom Town

In Colfax, Echoes of Another Conflict

One Year, One Facility, 1.7 Million Pounds of Hazardous Waste Burned in Open Air

Open Burns, Ill Winds

Toxic Fires

Veterans Affairs Official Downplays Agent Orange Risks, Questions Critics

Our Military Waste Game Suddenly Seems Prophetic

Agent Orange Curse Hangs Over Families of Virginia Veterans

The Children of Agent Orange

Vietnam Veterans And Their Families Share Stories of Exposure, Illness And Frustration

A Public Official’s Private Pain

How We Obtained the Government’s Data on Agent Orange and Birth Defects

Dr. Orange: The Secret Nemesis of Sick Vets

Help ProPublica Research More Than 700 Navy Ships That Served in Vietnam

The Military is Leaving the Missing Behind

Aftershock: The Blast That Shook Psycho Platoon

A Partial Victory in Our FOIA Request — But Government Still Hasn’t Provided All the Records

American Legion Pushes For Coverage of Treatment for Troops With Brain Injuries

After Our Investigation, Pentagon Puts Its Spin on Brain Injuries