The good news is that PTSD can be treated. But will enough Iraq war veterans seek help? And will they be able to get it? The war in Iraq is taking a toll on the mental health of the soldiers and Marines serving there – and it is a toll that the United States and [...]
Director of CIA testifies: US policies fuel resentment with daily attacks increasing 240% By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS President Bush’s invasion has turned Iraq into a recruiting and training ground for anti-US terrorists, according to CIA director Porter Goss in testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 16. Goss’ report was supported by Vice Admiral Lowell [...]
Career center rallies public & private sector resources to support wounded service members A new online employment and education resource launched today in support of the Department of Defense Military Severely Injured Joint Support Operations Center (24/7 Family Support). The new Career Center, located online at www.Military.com/support and accessible via 1-888-774-1361, builds on efforts by [...]
@@START_COMMENTStartFragment @@END_COMMENTLeathernecks market collectible coins for NASCAR fans By Tranette Ledford Service members know the value of a coin and it has nothing to do with dollars and cents. It has to do with honor. The ritual of exchanging coins is a military tradition, a practice that started sometime during World War I and continues today. [...]
President’s critics reconsider democracy’s prospects in the Middle EastBy Jefferson Morley In countries where President George Bush and his policies are deeply unpopular, online commentators are starting to think the unthinkable. “Could George W. Bush Be Right?” asked Claus Christian Malzahn in the German newsweekly Der Spiegel. Essayist Guy Sorman asked last month in the [...]
The roadside bomb has mass appeal among insurgents and is having a massive impact. by Rick Anderson The smell of war, as soldiers call it, is not just the distinct blood stench of combat but the suffocating noise, heat, and chaos of a slaughterhouse floor. Army 2nd Lt. Ben Colgan seemed to have gotten a full whiff [...]
Vets offer fresh perspective by writing their memoirs, poems for book By Scott Martelle The Marine contingent was supposed to be there for only a few minutes, a quick in-and-out to guard trucks resupplying a 10-story hospital in Ramadi. But one of the deliverymen was delayed in Baghdad, 30 miles away, so the Marines had to wait, each tick [...]
US and Japanese veterans mark 60th anniversary of battle at Iwo Jima Though Iwo Jima looks to be an unremarkable island with just over a few hundred Japanese soldiers and no other inhabitants, aging American combat veterans and a handful of former Japanese soldiers gathered on a hillside over the landing beaches of the battle [...]
Walking Wounded Face Healthcare Disparity By Diane M. Grassi Our military has done the United States proud in its performance in the War on Terror through Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, the capturing of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and with the ongoing stabilization effort in Iraq through Operation Iraqi Freedom. Yet this 21st century-style voluntary military [...]
US death toll in Iraq reaches 1,500By Philippe Naughton A grim milestone was passed in Iraq today when a US Marine was killed in action south of Baghdad – the 1,500th American soldier to lose his life since the invasion. The US military said the soldier, assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, was killed [...]
NASA Ames to lodge Iraq vets’ families during hospital visits in California Relatives of veterans injured in the Iraq War now can stay in NASA Ames Research Center’s employee exchange lodging at Moffett Field, Calif., at reduced or no cost, while the families visit injured relatives at a nearby veterans’ hospital. The NASA Ames Exchange [...]
Good soldiers are the guardians of the nightby Nicholas von Hoffman My son has returned from the war. After a year in Iraq, he’s come back to his wife and the rest of us unharmed in body. I don’t know about his spirit. Soldiers must see and do things which may leave, if invisible, terrible [...]
Soldiers who served in Iraq are starting to return, but are we ready for them? by Nina Shapiro So much has happened yet so little has changed since March 20, 2003. Nearly two years into the Iraq War, it’s hard not to see parallels to Vietnam: a drumbeat of casualties, traumatized soldiers coming home, competing [...]
Several vets groups propose their own budgetBy Myriam Marquez Several veterans groups, including the Disabled American Veterans, AMVETS, the Paralyzed Veterans of America and Veterans of Foreign Wars have put together their own budget proposal. They figure the Department of Veterans Affairs needs $31.2 billion for medical care. The administration is proposing $27.8 billion a [...]
Mistaken letter informing him of his own death is a shock to vetA disabled veteran who went to his mailbox expecting his monthly disability check instead found a letter from the federal government telling him he was dead. For David Baruk, 33, it was quite a shock. “I had just spent a month in the [...]
World War II Veterans Make HistoryBy Tiffany Blankenship The attack on Pearl Harbor is 60 years past, and the number of veterans who bravely served our country during World War II are dwindling. It’s a time that the few living veterans don’t like to talk about, but their recollections are helping shape our history. “Every [...]
Bush tastes vindication WASHINGTON- Not quite two years after he began the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and not quite two months after a second inaugural address in which he spoke of “ending tyranny,” President Bush seems entitled to claim as he did on Tuesday that a “thaw has begun” in the broader Middle East. [...]
Russell Crowe says FBI told him he was al-Qaida kidnap target Russell Crowe was the target of an al-Qaeda kidnapping plot in 2001 at the height of his Gladiator fame and has had FBI protection since. The Oscar winning actor was first contacted by the FBI in 2001 and warned of the threat, according to [...]
Veterans Affairs a tough beast to tackleBy Chris Rosenblum As a decorated Army Ranger, Matthew Berrena (pictured left) fought in the Grenada, Panama and Persian Gulf campaigns. But he wasn’t willing to wage one war — with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Berrena, 44, of Pennsylvania Furnace, filed VA disability compensation claims for injuries [...]
Of the 580,400 soldiers who served in the first Gulf War 11,000 are now dead and as of the year 2000 325,000 veterans are on permanent medical disabilityBy Bob Nichols Preventive Psychiatry E-Newsletter has charged that the reason U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi stepped down was the growing scandal surrounding the use of uranium munitions in the Iraq [...]
Greenspan Attacks Deficits in Gloomy Warning In his gloomiest assessment yet about the government’s budget outlook, Alan Greenspan warned that annual shortfalls were “unlikely to improve substantially in the coming years unless major deficit-reducing actions are taken.” The Fed chairman emphasized that his strong preference was to reduce the deficit through spending cuts rather than [...]
It is the Soldier A New Song by the noted Patriotic Songwriter and Giftgiver, Susan D. Wiseman Download - Related Article: Tribute Lady by John P. Allen Meet Susan D. Wiseman…just a housewife with a music ministry. She is an extremely patriotic person with a penchant for music. Her brand new release It is a Soldier is [...]
War veterans learn to share their stories Fla. – In country, they served and sacrificed. And each has a story to tell. Flight engineer Christian Mackenzie’s helicopter was shot down in Iraq. “The enemy shot an RPG that actually hit us right in the nose of the aircraft and blew up in my face,” recalls Mackenzie. [...]
© 2012 Veterans Today. All Rights Reserved. Veterans Today Network - Log in -
FACEBOOK
TWITTER
