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March 17th, 2006 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Being a ‘fly on the wall’ is finally possibleby Shaun Waterman WASHINGTON – Facing problems in its efforts to train insects or build robots that can mimic their flying abilities, the U.S. military now wants to develop “insect cyborgs” (photo left) that can go where its soldiers cannot. The Pentagon is seeking applications from researchers [...]
March 17th, 2006 | Posted in Military | Read More »
March 16th, 2006 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Lawmakers attempt to block Tricare fee increases for Military retireesby Rick Maze With the backing of 13 military associations, a bill blocking the Bush administration’s planned Tricare free increases for military retirees was introduced Wednesday. The Military Retirees’ Healthcare Protection Act, HR 4949, would prevent increases in enrollment fees and pharmacy co-pays that could affect [...]
March 16th, 2006 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Is life as we know it in America really changing?by Nat Parry Not that George W. Bush needs much encouragement, but Sen. Lindsey Graham suggested to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales a new target for the administration’s domestic operations — Fifth Columnists, supposedly disloyal Americans who sympathize and collaborate with the enemy. The administration has not [...]
March 15th, 2006 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Shocker: Senate Republicans screw veterans AGAINby Bob Geiger In case you missed it in the Senate yesterday, Daniel Akaka (D-HI) proposed a bill to increase Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in fiscal year 2007 and Republicans shot it down with extreme prejudice.The kiss of death for America’s Veterans was the fact that the [...]
March 15th, 2006 | Posted in Legislation | Read More »
When support for the war cools, snide attacks on soldiers grow by Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu It is now becoming a repeated but no less discomfiting phenomenon in American politics that when support for the war cools, snide attacks on soldiers grow. When troops came home from Korea never a popular war in the post-WW [...]
March 14th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Teenage girls sue U.S. Marine Corps over alleged recruiter rapesby Kim Curtis SAN FRANCISCO – Two teenage women who claimed a pair of former U.S. Marine Corps sergeants raped them in a Ukiah recruiting office sued the military Wednesday in federal court for failing to properly train and supervise recruiters. The women were in high [...]
March 14th, 2006 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
Private Volpe found out the hard way that a Purple Heart takes a long time to heal.By Andrew Murr, Newsweek March 20, 2006 issue – Marine Pvt. Paul Volpe was “bleeding out,” the combat term for bleeding to death. Hit three timesin the arm, calf and thighwith AK-47 rounds in an ambush, he was barely [...]
March 14th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Legislation introduced to allow veterans representation in VA mattersWashington, DC – Congressman Lane Evans of Illinois, Ranking Democrat on the House veterans’ Affairs Committee and Congresswoman Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Ranking Democratic Member on the Committee’s Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs, introduced a bill (H.R. 4914) that would permit veterans to hire an attorney [...]
March 13th, 2006 | Posted in Legislation | Read More »
Canada still a ‘refuge from militarism’?by Mark Nykanen NELSON, B.C. — Just two months before ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his Canadian cameraman, Doug Voigt, were seriously injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq, Woodruff stood on the set of the ABC Evening News and introduced a report about war resisters in Nelson, B.C. [...]
March 12th, 2006 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
A letter from a veteran to the President of the United Statesby Joseph W. DuRocher Dear Mr. President: As a young man I was honored to serve our nation as a commissioned officer and helicopter pilot in the US Navy. Before me in WWII, my father defended the country spending two years in the Pacific [...]
March 12th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
NFL Player Joins Pat Tillman into U.S. Military National Football League (NFL) loses another player to the U.S. Military Jeremy Staat, former NFL Player and college teammate and fellow NFL player Pat Tillman is following the trail blazed by the fallen hero into the U.S. Military. Staat is leaving a career in professional football to join the military. Pfc. [...]
March 11th, 2006 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
Drug eases pain of bad memories for veterans with PTSDby Peter Gorner, Chicago Tribune CHICAGO – Armed with new information about how brain chemicals affect the storage and retrieval of memories, scientists are racing to help people tortured by searing recollections of traumatic events. Military combat, rape, bombings, burns, beatings – these experiences can lead [...]
March 11th, 2006 | Posted in Coping | Read More »
March 11th, 2006 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
Department of Veterans Affairs Facing Staggering Burden of Providing Health Care to Returning Troops TEXAS– Eugene Simpson doesn’t like to complain. Paralyzed in a bomb attack in Iraq, his initial care was excellent, but ever since then he has felt adrift. “There are thousands of soldiers in worse condition than I am, and they’re OK,” [...]
March 10th, 2006 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
DOES THE PRESIDENT GIVE A DAMN? WILL THIS BE HIS LEGACY? The White House doesn’t seem to care about veterans and Americans who saved and served this country in WW-II. Something has gone wrong ; and we are dying off rapidly but there are still many who need closure and recognition. While the comment applies [...]
March 10th, 2006 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
The sound of outraged patriotism is echoing across the American heartland like rolling thunder. INDIANA–Mounted on earth-trembling Harley-Davidsons, a volunteer army is shielding grieving families from Christian fundamentalists claiming that the deaths of US soldiers are punishment from God for homosexuality. Marshalling more than 200 bikes for a military funeral in hardbitten Kokomo, the Indiana [...]
March 9th, 2006 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
Wounded Warriors Win Insurance Battleby Timothy Bolger When Ryan Kelly lost his leg in an attack in Iraq in 2003, he found out the hard way how hard it is to survive financially while navigating the red tape that leads to veterans’ benefits. So he and fellow servicemen who were wounded in Iraq took their [...]
March 9th, 2006 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
March 7th, 2006 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
Decades later, Marines hunt Vietnam-era desertersby Bill Nichols The photo on the left shows Ernest Johnson Jr. as he looked in 1969. On the right is the same man, now going by the name Ernest “Buck” McQueen WASHINGTON In the summer of 1965, Marine Cpl. Jerry Texiero quietly disappeared from his California base, [...]
March 7th, 2006 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
March 7th, 2006 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
TECHEXPO arrives in Washington DC featuring defense jobs for vets This is a job fair like no other. As a matter of fact, it only happens once a year! Catapult your job search by meeting nearly every major employer in the defense industry over 2 days. Employers are actively hiring for Federal Agencies & Government [...]
March 6th, 2006 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
March 6th, 2006 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
Do Americans have freedom of speech? A Veterans Affairs nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was investigated for sedition after she wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the Bush administration’s handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. In her first broadcast interview, we speak with Laura Berg, as well as an attorney with [...]
March 5th, 2006 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
March 4th, 2006 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
Get the Vietnam War intel from a Medal of Honor soldier who was there.
March 4th, 2006 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
Legislation blocks serial killer Charles Cullen-and other murderers- from veteran burial honors Charles Cullen, a man who claims to have murdered as many as 40 patients during his career as a registered nurse, was sentenced in New Jersey Thursday to 11 consecutive life terms in prison for the murders of 22 people and three attempted [...]
March 4th, 2006 | Posted in Legislation | Read More »
March 4th, 2006 | Posted in Living | Read More »
SUPER BOWL MVP CHAMPION OFF TO KOREA IN SEARCH OF DAD’S OLD FIGHTING GROUNDS Hines Ward hopes trip to homeland opens eyes to plight of those of mixed blood PITTSBURGH – Growing up in suburban Atlanta, Hines Ward often felt he was a victim of double discrimination. Not only did some of his white classmates make [...]
March 4th, 2006 | Posted in Korean Conflict | Read More »
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