Patricia Kime

Patricia Kime focuses on military personnel and veterans issues for Military.com, reporting on health care, military families, justice and benefits. She has covered military issues for decades, reporting on combat-related illnesses and injuries, the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Kime's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, Defense News, Military Times, Kaiser Health News and more. Her awards include the Association of Health Care Journalists’ top prize for excellence in health care journalism in 2020, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Honorable Mention for National Defense Reporting for 2022, and the Joe Galloway Award from Military Reporters & Editors Inc. in 2023.

A former intelligence community analyst, she holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Virginia.

Email: Patricia.Kime@Military.com

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Testing for COVID-19 is up outside PFC Floyd K. Lindstrom Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic in Colorado Springs

Suicides and Attempts Among Veterans Dropped During Pandemic, VA Says

VA officials caution that it's too early to determine what effect hospital shutdowns had on the data.

Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms

Senate Committee Wants to Cut Marine Corps Even Smaller, Keeps 3% Troop Pay Raise

Like the House version, the Senate's bill would fund a 3% pay raise for active-duty troops, a guarantee that U.S. service...

C-130 Hercules aircrew members at Karshi-Khanabad Air Base, Uzbekistan.

Lawmakers Investigate Cancer Cluster of Veterans Who Served at 'K2' Base

More than 400 military personnel who served in Uzbekistan after 9/11 have been diagnosed with various diseases.

Amy Rose, who votes absentee and claims Henderson, Nevada as her home.

GOP List of Alleged Voter Fraud in Nevada Contains Hundreds of Military Addresses

A military spouse who believes her vote is listed describes it as "shocking to have her integrity challenged."

flu shots at Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Corpus Christi

DoD Fails to Address the Health Care Needs of Female Troops, Advisory Board Claims

The Defense Health Board has forwarded recommendations to the Pentagon to improve health services for female troops.

Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden

Joe Biden Has Been Elected President. Here’s What That Means for the Military

The president-elect has promised a steady hand as commander in chief, but the budget could be squeezed.

An Operation Warp Speed research pharmacy technician documents whether a patient receives a vaccine or placebo

The VA Needs 8,000 Healthy Volunteers for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials

"For our nation's veterans, this is another way they can continue to serve in this way, fighting the pandemic as a volunteer...

Medial professionals in the Army and Air National Guard pose for a group photo at an alternate care facility Miami Beach Convention Center. (Leia Tascarini/Army)

Active-Duty Air Force Teams Deploy to Texas as Fort Bliss Declares Public Health Emergency

Three Air Force medical teams are deploying to El Paso, Texas, where area hospitals are overflowing with COVID-19 patients...

Military Sending Rape Cases to Court-Martial Without Enough Evidence to Convict, Report Finds

An advisory committee said insufficient evidence in cases sent to court-martial undermines the military judicial system.

Patrons of the Warrior Fitness Center exercise on treadmills June 17, 2013, at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. (Matthew Lancaster/Air Force)

In Change, Fitness Gear OK’d for Wear at Military Commissaries, Exchanges

The policy was changed in a memo from Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

Texas Air National Guard Member Dies of COVID-19

The U.S. military has lost a ninth member to the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Richard Reid, an independent duty medical technician with the 1st Special Operations Operational Medical Readiness Squadron, administers a COVID-19 test at Hurlburt Field, Florida.

COVID-19 Cases Reaching Record Highs in Military, Among Veterans

The number of active or new cases at both departments is reaching record highs.

Soldiers participate in equal opportunity training at Fort Eustis, Virginia

Audit of Pentagon Diversity Training Canceled After Trump Executive Order

An executive order from President Trump bans training covering "divisive concepts" like systemic racism and sex stereotyping.

The Coast Guard Ice Breaker Polar Star working an ice channel.

For the First Time in 26 Years, a US Polar Icebreaker Is Headed to the Arctic on a National Security Mission

The Polar Star will head north rather than south this year.

After 8 Months of Delays, VA Launches New Electronic Medical Records System

This step to modernize the VA's medical records system has been decades in the making.

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A view of Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, which is across the Elizabeth River from Norfolk, Virginia.

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