Despite signaling that it would no longer tap the Individual Ready Reserve, the Army calls up more troops just in time for the holidays.by Christopher Hayes For more than 800 members of the Army’s Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), the most memorable part of the holiday season was a surprise stocking-stuffer from the United States Army. [...]
Desert Storm vets support U.S. in Iraq by Barbara Ramirez The war in Iraq began almost three years ago, and U.S. soldiers are still fighting in the Middle East. That’s exactly where they need to be, Operation Desert Storm veteran Army Sgt. Cathy Smalls believes. “Freedom is not free,” Smalls said. “If we don’t take care [...]
VA Announces Site for National Cemetery WASHINGTON The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has selected a 214-acre property near Dolington in southern Bucks County as the site for a new national cemetery in southeastern Pennsylvania. Southeastern Pennsylvania is one of VA’s priorities for providing a national shrine for veterans,” said the Honorable R. James Nicholson, Secretary [...]
Directed energy could revolutionize warfare, expert saysby Leonard David LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – There is a new breed of weaponry fast approaching and at the speed of light, no less. They are labeled “directed-energy weapons,” and they may well signal a revolution in military hardware perhaps more so than the atomic bomb. Directed-energy weapons take [...]
Soldiers, spies, and diplomats conduct a classic Pentagon war gamewith sobering resultsby James Fallows Throughout this summer and fall, barely mentioned in America’s presidential campaign, Iran moved steadily closer to a showdown with the United States (and other countries) over its nuclear plans. In June the International Atomic Energy Agency said that Iran had not [...]
TogetherWeServed.com reunites Marinesby Gunnery Sgt. John S. Jamison Jr. If one were to Google U.S. Marines one would find that somewhere in the approximate 19 million sites that appear, one site seems to be a niche for the Marine Corps’ tightly-knit family.Whether a Marines’ service is present or past, TogetherWeServed.com is a site that has [...]
Awed by the caliber of those who serve our countryby J. Stryker Meyer During my youth, my father always spoke in reverent terms about the men and women who served our country during World War II. Dad didn’t serve due to a family deferral, but his brother piloted C-47 supply aircraft across the Burma Hump.Due [...]
Free Brain training for veterans EEG Neurofeedback is being offered at no cost to returning veterans through a growing network of Neurofeedback practitioners nationwide. The group of mental health practitioners volunteering their services has been brought together through the auspices of the Brian Othmer Foundation in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, CA. The group incorporates a [...]
Reservist on team that combs steaming jungle hoping to resolve cases of missing servicemenby David Madrid Villagers joined Tech. Sgt Joe Baker a reservist who was in Vietnam looking for clues about missing U.S. servicemen who served in the war. He said the Vietnamese people were “very, very accommodating and will to help.” Baker, 41, [...]
Army Begins Discharging Reservists Who Disobeyed Ordersby Robert Burns The Army took initial steps Monday to expel dozens of reservists who failed to report for active duty, in effect warning hundreds of others that they too could be penalized if they don’t heed orders to return to active service. The proceedings mark a turning point [...]
“Millions” of Americans’ phone calls tapped by N.S.A. ABC’s “Nightline” last night aired a terrifying scoop: a former senior insider at the National Security Agency said that the agency has illegally spied on “millions” of Americans who make telephone calls overseas. As ABC’s excellent Brian Ross reported: Russell Tice (right), a 20-year veteran with the [...]
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and Major Leaguer Danny Graves introduce baseball to Vietnam Washington, D.C. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund will be turning battlefields into baseball fields next week when it leads a delegation to bring baseball to Vietnam from Jan. 17-25, announced Jan C. Scruggs, Memorial Fund founder and president. Bringing Baseball to Vietnam [...]
Corps pays $100K for retooled jeep by Steven Komarow WASHINGTON The Marine Corps is paying $100,000 apiece for a revamped Vietnam-era jeep as part of its program to outfit the hybrid airplane-helicopter V-22 Osprey, Pentagon records show. That’s seven times what a deluxe commercial version of the vehicle costs. It’s also three times what U.S. [...]
Search for details on his dad’s fate all-consumingby David A. Markiewicz John P. Zimmerlee doesn’t remember his father. He was only 2 1/2 when 1st Lt. John H. Zimmerlee Jr., an Air Force B-26 navigator, went missing during a night bombing raid over North Korea on March 22, 1952. More than a half-century later, the [...]
American arrested on charges over killing of woman TOKYO, Japan–A U.S. sailor was arrested Saturday on robbery-murder charges in the killing of a Japanese woman, a Japanese police official said. The 21-year-old sailor was arrested after he was transferred to police from the U.S. Navy base in Yokosuka, about 30 miles southwest of Tokyo, a [...]
VA Secretary Promises “World Class” Medical Careby Jim Forsyth The Secretary of Veterans Affairs met with wounded veterans of the Iraq war at San Antonio’s Brooke Army Medical Center this afternoon and Jim Nicholson said advances in military medicine during this war means the VA of the future will undertake the major responsibility of providing [...]
VFW Passes Resolution to Support War in Iraq The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. passed a national resolution yesterday to support the president and the war in Iraq as part of the larger global war on terrorism. VFW Resolution 440also stipulates that American forces should remain in Iraq in sufficient numbers until Iraqi [...]
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VA HOME LOANS: Appraisal Form 26-0785 When you plan to purchase a home through the VA Home Loan Guarantee Program it is important to understand the forms that need to be filed and completed through the process of buying your new home. One of these important documents is form 26-0785. This is the VA Lender [...]
How a stripper ended up under FBI surveillanceBy Coley Ward Atlanta–Tabby Chase works nights as a dancer at the Clermont Lounge, so she was asleep the morning of Thurs., March 17, when she says FBI Special Agent Dante Jones called her. Chase says she didn’t know what the FBI wanted. When she awoke, it was late [...]
The Spitting Image challenges common beliefs about how soldiers from the Vietnam war were treatedby Benjamin Dangl Jerry Lembcke is the author of “The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam”. In 1969, he was assigned to the 41st Artillery Group in Vietnam as a Chaplain’s Assistant, and joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the [...]
Joint Chiefs to Back Higher TRICARE Fees for Retireesby Tom Philpott Alarmed that soaring health care costs are crimping budget dollars for higher-priority defense programs, the Joint Chiefs intend to endorse the Defense Department’s plan to raise TRICARE fees sharply over the next three years for retirees under 65 and their families, say senior military [...]
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