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February 28th, 2006 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Flying Tiger wrote ‘God is My Co-Pilot” Left: Retired Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott in 1996 carrying the Olympic torch on its way to the Atlanta Games. Retired Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, the World War II flying ace who told of his exploits in the China-Burma-India theater in his book “God is My Co-Pilot,” [...]
February 28th, 2006 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
America Supports You: Toyota Helps Guardsmen, Reservists Find Jobs Left: David Sweat, left, the parts department manager at Priority Toyota in Chesapeake, Va., said Army National Guard Sgt. Ricardo “Ricky” Velez came to the company about two months after leaving active duty. Velez previously served in Iraq for 14 months. Don Esmond, a Vietnam War [...]
February 27th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
VA and HHS to Target Diabetes, Obesity among American Veterans WASHINGTON With obesity and deadly diabetes at significantly higher levels among America‘s veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have announced a coordinated campaign to educate veterans and their families about ways to combat these health issues. [...]
February 27th, 2006 | Posted in Health | Read More »
The world finds it’s too hard to do business with the US by Stephen Foley Lucrative opportunities taken away on a political whim; the danger of being locked up by an over-mighty government agency; the brick wall of protectionism – the business community expects to do battle with all these things in an emerging market. [...]
February 26th, 2006 | Posted in Business | Read More »
February 26th, 2006 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Prolonged noise in Iraq harmful to troops’ hearing by Bruce Taylor Seeman Thousands of U.S. soldiers sent to Iraq have suffered serious hearing damage from bombs, rocket explosions and other combat noise, a new Army study suggests. Many of these injuries might have been prevented. But earplugs have been in short supply. And the Army [...]
February 25th, 2006 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Protecting the bad guys?by Daniel Sargis The war against terrorism would be a helluva lot easier to win if somebody would just be more specific about who we are fighting and what we are fighting for…and so would the war against crime. It’s amazing how similar the two battles are and, how similarly our leaders are [...]
February 25th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
February 25th, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
February 24th, 2006 | Posted in Living | Read More »
MS diagnosis may be too late to help veteran of first Gulf Warby Hal Bernton For more than a decade, Gulf War veteran Harry White has suffered from aches, fatigue and a disturbing loss of muscle control. Last December, after another workplace accident, he finally saw a doctor who attached a name to his ailments: [...]
February 23rd, 2006 | Posted in Health | Read More »
For almost five years U.S. President George W. Bush has warned Americans to fear terrorism, but now those words may come back to bite him. by Alan Elsner The president, who has cast himself as America’s protector against terrorism and Islamic militancy, has been thrown on the defensive by a bipartisan revolt over his administration’s [...]
February 23rd, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
The Marines may be the most celebrated of the American armed forces, but it’s the Army that does most of the heavy lifting, as it is doing in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the process, the Army is being battered and shattered in the same way that it was in Vietnam. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld [...]
February 22nd, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Depleted Uranium scandal explodes- Horrendous US casualties The Preventive Psychiatry Newsletter has written to its subscribers telling them that the real reason the former Veterans Affairs Secretary, Anthony Principi, recently resigned was because he has been involved in a massive scandal covering up the fact that Gulf War Syndrome was caused by the use of [...]
February 22nd, 2006 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Implications of a US Attack on Iranby Heather Wokusch “This notion that the United States is getting ready to attack Iran is simply ridiculous… Having said that, all options are on the table.” — George W. Bush, February 2005 Witnessing the Bush administration’s drive for an attack on Iran is like being a passenger in [...]
February 21st, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Guard and Reserve soldiers injured in combat face financial and medical ‘friendly fire’ once back in the U.S., officials say. by John Hendren WASHINGTON Hundreds of Army Reserve and National Guard troops returning home after being wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have gone months without pay or medical benefits they were entitled to receive, military [...]
February 21st, 2006 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Documantary shows veterans still hurt long after their wounds have healedby Sally Pollack Veterans of wars from Iraq to World War II form the cast of characters in a documentary by Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven.The movie, “After the Fog,” consists of interviews with 11 U.S. veterans, more than half of whom are Vermonters. In the [...]
February 20th, 2006 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Read More »
U.S.-German Flare-Up Over Vast Nazi Camp Archives by Roger Cohen Tempers are flaring over a United States demand to open to scholars and researchers a huge repository of information about the Holocaust contained in the files of the International Tracing Service at Bad Arolsen, Germany. Based in part on documents gathered by Allied forces as [...]
February 20th, 2006 | Posted in World War II | Read More »
VA Home Loans and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) The Home Loan Guarantee Program The Veteran’s Administration established their Home Loan Guarantee Program in order for veterans to have an easier time purchasing a home. In order to make it easier for veterans to become homeowners the VA encourages veterans to take advantage of the [...]
February 20th, 2006 | Posted in Personal Finance | Read More »
U.S. Marines aid Philippine recovery as hopes dim to find any survivorsby Oliver Teves Left: Philippine army soldiers work with U.S. Marines as they try and build a pathway through the mud of a landslide, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2006, in Guinsaugon village in Leyte, southeast of Manila, Philippines. A total of 72 bodies have been [...]
February 19th, 2006 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Willie Nelson warmed up for a concert by playing a long freebie gig for soldiers injured in Iraq. For the second straight year, Nelson squeezed in a show at Brooke Army Medical Center on Friday while he and his band were in San Antonio to play at the city’s annual rodeo. “I have a lot [...]
February 19th, 2006 | Posted in Support the Troops | Read More »
12-question quiz predicts your odds of dying within the next four yearsby Sharon Kirkey Want to take a test to predict your odds of dying within the next four years that is 81 per cent accurate? Researchers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Centre have developed an easy-to-use mortality risk test based on a [...]
February 18th, 2006 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Anyone who has served in the U.S. military since the early 1980s knows all about the widely reviled food rations called MREs, for “Meals, Ready to Eat.”by Anne Broache But now those long-lasting plastic pouches, which include options such as chicken tetrazzini and cheese tortellini, have been turning up on eBay in possible violation of [...]
February 18th, 2006 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
February 17th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Supporting the War As An Act of Unpatriotic Cowardice by David Michael Green Nowadays, Americans have to actively journey far out of their way to blind themselves to how the country was utterly duped into fighting a completely unnecessary war in Iraq. Last week, the former chief of staff to then-Secretary of State Colin Powell [...]
February 17th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
February 16th, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
February 16th, 2006 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
Soldiers staying awake for 40 hour stretches using drug could become addicted or have health problems laterby Tom Spears U.S. soldiers are staying awake for days and nights on end in Iraq, and many are almost certainly benefiting from military research into pills that let them work for 40 hours straight, without feeling “wired” and [...]
February 15th, 2006 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Critics say more waivers are being issued to meet wartime goals. A drop in standards is feared.By Tom Bowman WASHINGTON Struggling to boost it ranks in wartime, the Army has sharply increased the number of recruits who would normally be barred because of criminal misconduct or alcohol and illegal drug problems, again raising concerns that [...]
February 15th, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Remains of US servicemen repatriated Two sets of remains believed to belong to American servicemen missing in action from the Vietnam War will be handed over to US authorities today at Danang airport in central Vietnam. The transfer ceremony is to be held by the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons (VNOSMP) and the Joint [...]
February 15th, 2006 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
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