Steve Walsh
As a military reporter, Steve Walsh delivers stories and features for TV, radio and the web.
Before coming to KPBS, Steve worked as a journalist in Northwest Indiana and Chicago. He hosted a daily public affairs show on Lakeshore Public Radio and was an original host and producer for the storytelling project Vocalo.org at WBEZ in Chicago. He has been a reporter on Back At Base, a collaboration between NPR and seven public radio stations that looks at veterans and the military.
He is a graduate of Indiana State University. He spent a large portion of his career as a print reporter for the Times of Northwest Indiana and the Post-Tribune in Gary, Indiana. At the Post-Tribune, he was embedded in Iraq twice. He was also an investigative reporter and covered the Indiana Statehouse during the term of three governors.
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While the U.S. Coast Guard investigates the cause of the Titan submersible tragedy, expert submariners say it could have been avoided by following the Navy's design principles known as SUBSAFE.
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Hearings are underway this week at Camp Pendleton over the deaths of nine service members, eight Marines and a sailor, when their landing craft sank off the coast of southern California.
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KPBS' Steve Walsh reports on the mental health struggles veterans face and the lack of support they receive from the military.
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The Marines are the last service to integrate women into boot camp. For the first time this spring, female recruits completed the grueling boot camp in San Diego.
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Every unit is holding a "stand down" to talk about extremism in the ranks. But the armed forces are still grappling with fundamental questions of how to define, identify and best deal with it. -
A growing number of those who participated in the siege of the U.S. Capitol were vets. While veterans groups are aware of extremism in their ranks, there are few resources to tackle the issue head on.
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Some say Black sailors have to navigate both unconscious and active bias in the Navy. -
Most overseas troops use the mail and the law requires their ballots to go out early. -
The amphibious assault ship was in port at Navy Base San Diego when the fire broke out July 12, burning more than four days and sending smoke billowing through the city of San Diego. -
The Marine Corps recently banned the confederate flag on military bases. It was the first step toward what the marine corps commandant called a difficult conversation about racism in the corps.
