Home Values Slashed in Half? The Housing Bubble Is About to Burstby Dean Baker The latest data on housing sales showed that the inventory of unsold homes climbed to 4.4 million in May, yet another record. The current inventory would be more than a full year of housing sales in the mid-nineties, before the housing [...]
More help for families of the fallen A group breaks away from Snowball Express to offer support its own way By TERI SFORZA The Orange County Register There may be no more military bases in Orange County – but there's no shortage of local groups trying to aid the families of the fallen. A new [...]
No More Educational Hardships– One Iraq Veteran Rewrites The Law To Help Others When SGT Patrick Campbell returned to law school after serving a tour in Iraq, his student lender told him that he was defaulting on him payments. Due to his deployment to Iraq, he had used up all of his permissible grace period. [...]
Military Served By Resourceful Web site MilitaryConnection.com takes great pride in providing a multitude of resources for our nation’s military audience. The web site, launched just over one year ago, offers one of the most comprehensive directories of military resources and information on the web, featuring over 10,000 pages with thousands of valuable resources, databases [...]
Vet Who Contracted Infectious Disease While Deployed, Transmits Disease to Wife and Unborn Children Left, Arvid Brown holds a 1999 family portrait. His wife, Janyce, died last year, and children Asa and Helen are disabled. Brown links their health woes to a disease he contracted in the Mideast. This is a rather tragic case of [...]
Secret documents provide new details about how the CIA illegally spied on Americans decades agoby Mark Mazzetti and Tim Weiner Left, Richard Helms with President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in 1973. WASHINGTON— Long-secret documents released Tuesday provide new details about how the Central Intelligence Agency illegally spied on Americans decades ago, [...]
Protesters in uniform could be downgraded, lose their benefitsby Kirsten Scharnberg The young combat veteran stared at the letter in disbelief when it arrived in his mailbox a few months ago. The Marine Corps was recommending him for "other than honorable discharge." The letter alleged he had violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice by [...]
US Atty Biskupic and VA Defied US Law to Convict Wisconsin Veteran Who Sought Benefits Madison, Wisconsin—In this Karl Rove/Dick Cheney age of politics when the governmental machinery is so politicized that Richard Nixon seems a progressive reformist by comparison, it’s not surprising to find the United States Department of Justice ravaging a Vietnam-era veteran [...]
There are more homeless veterans in the United States than active-duty troops deployed in Iraq, including those deployed as part of the "surge." "We are a nation that will keep its commitments to those who have risked their lives for our freedom," President Bush said last Veterans Day. He urged veterans to wear their medals [...]
The Next War: Ex-Soldiers Try To Set Up Shopby Maureen Farrell, Forbes Bob Corcoran spent 15 years flying jets in the Air Force. He would need all that banking and rolling experience for his next dogfight–dealing with the twisted maze of government agencies established to help ex-soldiers start their own businesses. When Corcoran (pictured left) [...]
Complacency Kills Mother, Son, and a Sign of the Times in Iraq by Mary Geddry Contrary to what some may think, John, my Marine corporal son, rarely speaks to me of his time in Iraq. Despite his knowing that I have an unquenchable thirst to know every detail of his life in Ramadi, he talks [...]
The "Choice of Representation Act" becomes law: Veterans may now use attorneys in the VA claims process after filing the first Notice of Disagreement. On June 20, 2007, new laws regarding attorneys representing veterans in the VA claims process went into effect. The document is self-explanatory and spells out the information veterans will need to [...]
MilitaryVetsPX.com Launches New Store for Military Medals, Patches, and More Top Quality Military Items Available Now Need your U.S. Armed Forces stuff? No problem, MilitaryVetsPX.com is the new online store of Vets Supply Line. MilitaryVetsPX.com has a wide selection of Military Dog Tags, Plates, Tapes, Caps, Medals, Patches, Badges, Belts, Buckles, Coins, Stickers and Gift [...]
The National Outreach campaign will target Iraq/Afghan war veterans within top 22 media markets, and top 24 states by way of U.S. veterans population. LA Based Service Provider Earns Grant from CA Community Foundation’s, Iraq-Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund. Los Angeles: Two decades ago, the National Veterans Foundation (NVF) launched what has become one of the [...]
ROTARY JOINS FORCES TO FORM OPERATION ONE FAMILY SUPPORTING THE FAMILIES OF THE FALLEN Costa Mesa, CA., June 20, 2007 – Numerous Southern California Rotary Clubs within District 5320 are joining forces with MilitaryConnection.com, TAPS, Homefront America, Soldiers Angels and ThanksUSA in a joint effort to support the families of the fallen by forming Operation [...]
The Supreme Court declined to review divorce law that divides veterans retired pay June 19, 2007, Tampa, FL – Twenty-six years after Congress accepted its invitation in the case of McCarty v. McCarty to spell out divorce courts’ limits for dividing veterans’ retired pay, the Supreme Court declined on June 18, 2007, to review a [...]
Airport Ground Cargo Transportation Company Seeks to Hire U.S. Veterans Worldwide Flight Services Joins HireVeterans.com By Jannette Angelle, Staff Writer VeteransToday.com Worldwide Flight Services, one of the largest and fastest growing ground cargo transportation services in the country, has teamed up with HIREVETERANS.COM to seek highly skilled US veterans for employment. Worldwide Flight Services has a reputation for [...]
Help A Vet, Help A Vet Tour Country Music Artist Tour Supports Veterans Traditional country music singer-songwriter, Floyd Flowers, will be kicking off his “Help A Vet, Help A Vet” tour this Friday, June 22nd in Austin, Minnesota at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. Join Floyd for a night full of live entertainment along with [...]
PULLING MONEY CAN BREAK IRAN By DICK MORRIS The past week has very possibly been the key turning point in the drive to cripple the Iranian government and force it to back off its nuclear weapons program. Uncovered by the mainstream media, a courageous and far-sighted effort by Reagan’s assistant secretary of defense, Frank Gaffney, [...]
“Full Force of Law” to Protect Earned Benefits WASHINGTON – Continuing a long-standing campaign to identify and prosecute those who defraud veterans of their rightful benefits, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently highlighted several successes by its Inspector General in investigating people who mishandle the finances of veterans and family members unable to manage [...]
The New Heroes of the Iraq War Dissenters Heroes? by April Fitzsimmons, Sgt. USAF (1985-1989) LOS ANGELES, Ca – “On your knees!” shouted the Marine Sergeant. I felt the right one crunch as I knelt on the concrete. “Hands over your head!” he hollered. I lifted them high into the air. I felt vulnerable and [...]
Pentagon Report Says the Military's Cadre of Mental-Health Care Workers is "Woefully Inadequate"by Ann Scott Tyson, Washington Post Staff Writer U.S. troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer "daunting and growing" psychological problems — with nearly 40 percent of soldiers, a third of Marines and half of the National Guard members reporting symptoms [...]
U.S. Government Security Clearances: Get the Facts Learn all about the U.S. Government Security Clearance Any person who has worked or will work for an organization that requires access to restricted information more than likely has or will need a security clearance. The largest source of individuals with security clearances is the military population. Once [...]
'Shakey's Hill', Produced by Cinematographer and Veteran Newsman Norman Lloyd, Awarded Best Documentary Short Film at G.I. Film Festival 2007 a Blockbuster for Veteran Newsman Filmaker by Susan DeVico Veteran newsman Norman Lloyd's film 'Shakey's Hill' was honored with the Best Documentary Short award at the G.I. Film Festival, held in Washington, DC over the [...]
SBA offers New Loan for Veterans Patriot Express Loans Arrives to help Veteran Entrepreneurs The Small Business Administration has launched the new Patriot Express Pilot Loan for the military community. The Washington, D.C.-based agency said Patriot Express is a streamlined loan product based on its SBA Express Program, but with enhanced guarantee and interest rate [...]
Remember Dad’s Sacrifices This Father’s Dayby Bill Smith EVEN AFTER THEY are called from the living, fathers will always be remembered for what they handed down to us. Their wisdom, their ability to survive the most severe trials, and the countless hours they work in order to provide the best possible for their families. My [...]
U.S. troops would no longer be asked to reveal previous mental health treatment when applying for security clearances under a proposal being considered by the Pentagon.by Pauline Jelinek and Robert Burns The idea stems from the finding that service members avoid needed counseling because they believe that getting it – and acknowledging it – could [...]
Vietnam air base a hot spot that had gone untestedby Ben Stocking DANANG, VIETNAM — More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang. "They're [...]
White, male veterans are found to be two-times as likely to commit suicide than non-veteransby Peggy Peck, Managing Editor, MedPage Today Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. PORTLAND, Ore., June 12 — As a group, white men who served in the U.S. armed forces are twice [...]
Iraq veteran rerated as 100% disabled on appeal By Paul Wood Sgt. Garrett Anderson is 100 percent again, at least as far as his disability rating goes. The soldier's injuries remain, though he is being helped by therapy. On Oct. 15, 2005, an improvised explosive device tore through his body in Iraq, smashing his jaw [...]
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