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Female Veterans serving in Iraq suffer from more pronounced and debilitating symptoms of PTSD than men.by Diane Wetzel Anxiety attacks. Insomnia. Overreactions to sudden loud noises.Welcome to life after deployment.Women handle conflict differently than men, said Operation Desert Storm veteran Teresa Wickens. Veterans groups and the Veterans Administration are not prepared to handle that.During and [...]
January 13th, 2007 | Posted in Health | Read More »
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January 12th, 2007 | Posted in Legislation | Read More »
In order for a society to progress, it can’t be held hostage by insecure elites living in the past… by David Sirota There seems to be a pervasive and not-so-subtle streak of anger among 50-60 something pundits who describe themselves as “liberal” and yet who constantly attack the left for opposing the Iraq War, and [...]
January 12th, 2007 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Special Extra Earnings for Military Service Since 1957, if you had military service earnings for active duty (including active duty for training), you paid Social Security taxes on those earnings. Since 1988, inactive duty service in the Armed Forces reserves (such as weekend drills) has also been covered by Social Security. Under certain circumstances, special [...]
January 11th, 2007 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
A well-known leader of Vietnam vets, paralyzed in combat, describes the frighteningly familiar path that is leading us into a widening conflict: With such a small percentage of the population bearing the burden of the war in Iraq, the sense of shared sacrifice has been lost.by Bobby Muller As a soldier who fought in the [...]
January 11th, 2007 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
January 10th, 2007 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
January 10th, 2007 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
Military Expert Weighs in on Watadaby Lisa Kubota Hawaii-born solider Lt. Ehren Watada is awaiting an important ruling on his upcoming court martial. Within days, a judge could dismiss some of the charges, but he could also deal a big blow to the defense. The usually outspoken 28-year-old stayed silent during a news conference last [...]
January 9th, 2007 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Strange smells and dead birds frighten many in the age of terror by Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Two incidents that occurred yesterday morning, dead birds in Austin Texas and a strange odor across New York, and the reaction they elicited, underscores the fact that Americans are living their lives on a day to [...]
January 9th, 2007 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Veterans say VA unfair in denying disability benefits GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Department of Veterans Affairs is not properly considering statements from veterans’ private physicians when determining a disability rating, relying instead on its own physicians who aren’t as favorable to their claims, according to veterans and others. Such decisions violate the so-called “treating-physician rule,” [...]
January 8th, 2007 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
The argument against the orthodox history of Vietnam.by Mackubin Thomas Owens In the late summer of 1963, President John Kennedy dispatched two observers to South Vietnam. Their mission was to provide the president an assessment of the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of the Republic of Vietnam. The first, Major General Victor Krulak, [...]
January 8th, 2007 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Read More »
The U.S. is poorly equipped to care for the tens of thousands of soldiers injured in Iraq.by Linda Bilmes THE NEW YEAR brought with it the 3,000th American death in Iraq. But what’s equally alarming and far less well known is that for every fatality in Iraq, there are 16 injuries. That’s an unprecedented casualty [...]
January 7th, 2007 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
According to the Pentagon, there were 2,374 reported cases of sexual assault against women in uniform over the past year. But as the saga of military police officer Suzanne Swift shows, numbers alone don’t tell the whole story. by Celina R. De Leon “I fear that she will kill herself. I fear that she will [...]
January 7th, 2007 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Liberals spent the Vietnam War rooting for the enemy and clamoring for America’s defeat, a tradition they have brought back for the Iraq war. by Ann Coulter Fortunately for liberals, the Iraqis executed Saddam Hussein the exact same week that former President Ford died, so it didn’t seem strange that Nancy Pelosi’s flag was at [...]
January 6th, 2007 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
January 6th, 2007 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
In what appears to be a military shakeup surrounding Iraq, President Bush has replaced both the top US general in the Middle East and the top general in Iraq, ABC NEWS is reporting on air.Raw Story Admiral William J. Fallon will replace Gen. John Abizaid, US commander in the Middle East, who announced his retirement [...]
January 5th, 2007 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Canada’s official reception to war-resisting American soldiers resisting the Iraq war has been frosty. by Mary Ambrose, New American Media When 27 year old machine gunner Chris Teske was in Germany with the US army he decided he couldn’t go to Iraq. After two tours in Afghanistan he’d been honorably discharged but they called him [...]
January 5th, 2007 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
Traveling the Planet Neocon Road to Baghdad (Again)By Robert Dreyfuss, TomDispatch.com Like some neocon Wizard of Oz, in building expectations for the 2007 version of his “Strategy for Victory” in Iraq, President Bush is promising far more than he can deliver. It is now nearly two months since he fired Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, [...]
January 4th, 2007 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
January 4th, 2007 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Dear HireVeterans.com We are excited for 2007 here at the Veterans Business Training Center (program of the Purple Heart Service Foundation). We train combat wounded and disabled veterans virtual call center technology. It is a 15 week course where we teach Microsoft Office software, Five9 call center software, and Web Surveyor software just to name [...]
January 4th, 2007 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Deceased Soldier’s Journal a Bridge to His Newborn Sonby Dana Canedy Left, Follow your heart, Charles M. King wrote in a 200-page journal for his son, Jordan, whom he first held this fall just weeks before he died in Iraq. He drew pictures of himself with angel wings. He left a set of his dog [...]
January 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Living | Read More »
Depleted Uranium and the Deadly Aftermath for Veteransby John Waltz, Special Assignment Writer Firebase Network Depleted Uranium (DU) seems to be the new buzz word in warfare but it has been around since the World War 2 era. In the Groves Memorandum that dated October 30, 1943 presented research on DU and the possible usage [...]
January 3rd, 2007 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Study of nearly 2,000 veterans links symptoms of PTSD to heart disease A groundbreaking study of 1,946 male veterans of World War II and Korea suggests that vets with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder are at greater risk of heart attacks as they age. The new study is the first to document a link between [...]
January 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Health | Read More »
January 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Many of the American soldiers trying to quell sectarian killings in Baghdad dont appear to be looking for reinforcements. They say the temporary surge in troop levels some people are calling for is a bad idea.by Will Weissert, AP BAGHDAD, Iraq – President Bush is considering increasing the number of troops in Iraq and embedding [...]
January 1st, 2007 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
Government Experiments: A Betrayal of Our Veteransby John Waltz, Special Assignment Writer for The Firebase Network Throughout the history of warfare chemical and biological toxins have been used. As the years passed the more advanced and deadlier the weapons became. In America the testing of new weapons has subjected service members to being exposed to [...]
January 1st, 2007 | Posted in Health | Read More »
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