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February 14th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Vet revamps bid to change VA food by Michael Randall It’s four years later, and Richard Cortell is still fighting to boot reheated meals from Veterans Affairs hospitals and bring fresh food back to hospitalized vets. This time he has a Web site, and a plan to take the fight to the national level, to [...]
February 14th, 2006 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Iraq veterans say pulling out not an option nowby Gail Schontzler MONTANA–Six local soldiers who served in Iraq last year with the Montana National Guard’s 1-163rd Infantry Battalion have sometimes conflicting views of the war, but all seemed to agree on one thing. The United States should not pull out its troops and expect Iraqis [...]
February 13th, 2006 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
February 12th, 2006 | Posted in Coping | Read More »
February 12th, 2006 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
February 11th, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Army Moves Soldiers During Gay Porn Probeby Estes Thompson A group of paratroopers from the elite 82nd Airborne Division have been moved from their regular barracks while military officials investigate allegations that they appeared on a gay pornography Web site, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. The investigation is still at an early stage, division spokeswoman Maj. [...]
February 11th, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Appalling new evidence reveals that female soldiers serving in Iraq made fatal decisions in their attempts to avoid rape.by Marjorie Cohn In a startling revelation, the former commander of Abu Ghraib prison testified that Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former senior U.S. military commander in Iraq, gave orders to cover up the cause of death for [...]
February 11th, 2006 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
High Unemployment Among Young Vets During a recent U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs hearing it was announced that 20 to 24 year old veterans now have an unemployment rate of over 15 percent – nearly twice the rate of their non-veteran peers. The numbers of young unemployed veterans has grown dramatically since the start [...]
February 10th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Soldiers Face Debilitating Diseases They served their time in the military in places like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and more recently, Iraq and Afghanistan. Most returned in good health. But an NBC 30 investigation has found that for some soldiers, their service has meant a long and debilitating death sentence with mysterious diseases. “I have [...]
February 10th, 2006 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Army demanded $700 man who was woundedby Eric Eyre U.S. Army Lt. William Eddie Rebrook of Charleston (left) and other soldiers take cover near an ancient cemetery during a gunbattle with insurgents in Najaf, Iraq, in August 2004. Rebrook, who was honorably discharged last week because of an arm injury sustained in battle, was forced to [...]
February 9th, 2006 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
Iraqi War veteran and congressional candidate, Nathan Martin, challenges “fighting Democrats.” Mansfield, OH –Responding to recent news reports, Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Ohio’s fourth congressional district, Nathan Martin asks a group, sometimes calling themselves the fighting Democrats, Where’s the fight?Martin, an Iraqi War veteran, said, While in Iraq, my unit [...]
February 9th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Campaigns for Congress are the new battlegroundsby Jon Sarche Pictured left: Marine Reservist Paul Hackett meets constituents during a candidate forum in Columbus, Ohio. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – After 20 years in the Air Force and Bronze Star service during the 1991 Gulf War, Democrat Jay Fawcett decided to come home and run for Congress, largely [...]
February 8th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Eroding U.S. industrial base comes with a priceby Diane M. Grassi The United States of America has historically enjoyed self-sufficiency in times of both war and peace but in order to better assess its present place in the world as concerns its military and economic strength, it is important to reflect on its foundation. There [...]
February 8th, 2006 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Landmark Budget Includes Largest Increase in Health Care Spending in History WASHINGTON Secretary of Veterans Affairs R. James Nicholson announced today that President Bush will seek a record $80.6 billion in the fiscal year 2007 budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), with the overwhelming majority of these resources targeted for health care and [...]
February 6th, 2006 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
How Hitler Became a Dictatorby Jacob G. Hornberger Whenever U.S. officials wish to demonize someone, they inevitably compare him to Adolf Hitler. The message immediately resonates with people because everyone knows that Hitler was a brutal dictator.But how many people know how Hitler actually became a dictator? My bet is, very few. I’d also bet [...]
February 6th, 2006 | Posted in World War II | Read More »
The U.S. military has identified the body of a World War II airman that climbers found in October at the bottom of a glacier in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Family members said they learned this week that the man was 22-year-old Army Air Corps cadet Leo Mustonen, who died in a 1942 plane crash. [...]
February 5th, 2006 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
Powell’s Former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson Calls Pre-War Intelligence a ‘Hoax on the American People’ Colin Powell’s former Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson makes the startling claim that much of Powell’s landmark speech to the United Nations laying out the Bush Administration’s case for the Iraq war was false.“I participated in a hoax on [...]
February 5th, 2006 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
February 5th, 2006 | Posted in Living | Read More »
The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies crafting strategies that would transform the Internet as we know it. by Jeff Chester The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies are crafting an alarming set of strategies that would transform the free, open and nondiscriminatory Internet of today to a privately run and branded service that would charge a fee [...]
February 5th, 2006 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
A transitioning military can explore nationwide opportunities in Information Technology, Engineering, Aerospace, Telecom, Operations, Intelligence, Law Enforcement, Homeland Security, & more. Great jobs await you in the defense, intelligence and government services sectors with federal agencies and government contractors this FEBRUARY! Bring many copies of your resume and meet company representatives in Maryland and Virginia [...]
February 3rd, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
February 3rd, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Troops Face Financial Crises After Learning Army Overpaid Them During Hospitalizationby Brian Ross Left: Staff Sgt. Eugene Simpson was wounded in Iraq and then went without pay for four months. The Army says he was overpaid while he was in the hospital. It was one of the thousands of roadside bombs in Iraq that paralyzed [...]
February 2nd, 2006 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Capt. Jonathan Powers, who served a tour in Iraq, hopes to return to work with children.by Seth Rosen Whenever the daily battles with Iraqi insurgents or the slow pace of reconstruction began to disturb Capt. Jonathan Powers, he would visit St. Hannah’s Orphanage in the violent north Baghdad neighborhood of Adhamiya. During the summer and [...]
February 2nd, 2006 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
Is Cheney’s Neocon cabal bringing concentration camps? by John Newby I’ve heard and seen many reports concerning detention camps that have been built throughout the country. Quite frankly, I viewed them with a bit of skepticism, not that I didn’t trust the source or the information, I didn’t trust the conclusions. The claims have been [...]
February 2nd, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
With a new general in charge, the U.S. military’s plans to fight Iraq’s insurgents are expected to emphasize improving Iraqis’ quality of life, rather than killing or capturing guerrillas. by Jim Krane Army Lt. Gen. Peter W. Chiarelli, who became commander of Multi-National Corps Iraq last week, said he would employ across Iraq many of [...]
February 2nd, 2006 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
Bush says State of our Union is ‘Strong’ Mr. Speaker, Vice President Cheney, Members of Congress, Members of the Supreme Court and diplomatic corps, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens: Today our nation lost a beloved, graceful, courageous woman who called America to its founding ideals and carried on a noble dream. Tonight we are comforted [...]
February 1st, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
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