Jay Price
Jay Price is the military and veterans affairs reporter for North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC.
He specialized in covering the military for nearly a decade and traveled four times each to Iraq and Afghanistan for the N&O and its parent company, McClatchy Newspapers. He spent most of 2013 as the Kabul bureau chief for McClatchy.
Price’s other assignments have included covering the aftermaths of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi and a series of deadly storms in Haiti.
He was a fellow at the Knight Medical Evidence boot camp at MIT in 2012 and the California Endowment’s Health Journalism Fellowship at USC in 2014.
He was part of a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for its work covering the damage in the wake of Hurricane Floyd, and another team that won the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for a series of reports on the private security contractor Blackwater.
He has reported from Asia, Latin America, and Europe and written free-lance stories for The Baltimore Sun, Outside magazine and Sailing World.
Price is a North Carolina native and UNC-Chapel Hill graduate. He lives with his wife and daughter in Chapel Hill.
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Veterans Affairs runs nearly all active national cemeteries. But across the VA, which holds nearly 135,000 burials a year, honor guards and all ceremonies are now banned due to the coronavirus.
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Defense spending is expected to rise only slightly in the White House's proposed Fiscal 2021 budget. The Navy considers overhauling its fleet, and aims to have 355 warships.
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The 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg can deploy at a moment's notice. In response to rising tensions in the Middle East, it did just that. Their families in North Carolina are left behind.
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U.S. troops have been barred from filing medical malpractice claims against the government. That's changed because of one dying Special Forces soldier and a lawyer who didn't know the odds.
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About 5 million vets live in rural America and when it comes to health-care, there can be both literal and logistical obstacles. The Department of Veterans Affairs thinks telehealth clinics may help.
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NewsRay Lambert is part of a dying generation of veterans who survived D-Day. Seventy-five years later, he wants to be remembered as someone who "was willing to die for my family and for my country." -
Ray Lambert, one of the few living veterans who fought in the 1944 battle, was in the first wave of U.S. troops to hit Omaha Beach. The army medic returns to Normandy to mark 75 years since D-Day.
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Troops are issued ear protection, but the Pentagon recently settled a lawsuit with the manufacturer over military earplugs that allegedly didn't work. Now, there are more lawsuits coming.
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The U.S. military is struggling to recruit tech talent. One approach is a program that partners with universities to involve students, who have no intention of enlisting, in solving military problems.
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Advances in DNA and other forensics now make identification of Americans who died in the Korean War highly likely. The Pentagon is exhuming hundreds of remains in a Honolulu military cemetery.
