Lawmaker seeks de-boot camp after tourby Scott Sonner RENO, Nev. — The chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee said he will push Congress to open camps that may help prepare veterans for the difficult return to everyday life after deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. These “de-boot” camps, or “Heroes Homecoming camps,” could be made [...]
Iraq Vets Facing a New Gulf War Syndrome?by Carla McClain, Arizona Daily Star Some young men and women who survived the war are now facing a death sentence from cancer. Is it the depleted uranium? After serving in Vietnam nearly 40 years ago — and receiving the Bronze Star for it — the Tucson soldier [...]
Is America becoming a police state? by Ron Paul, December 20, 2004 In 2002 I asked my House colleagues a rhetorical question with regard to the onslaught of government growth in the post-September 11th era: Is America becoming a police state? The question is no longer rhetorical. We are not yet living in a total [...]
Vets Shouldn't Have to Fight For a Place to Sleepby Donna Teresa I'm in my car, my radio is on, and I hear the familiar Keith Richards/Mick Jagger lyrics from the Rolling Stones song "Gimme Shelter." "Oh, a storm is threatening my very life today, if I don't get some shelter, oh yeah, I'm going [...]
Boiling point desert training helps marines learn to cope with iraq's relentless heatby Mark Sauer TWENTYNINE PALMS – By 1 p.m., every metal surface was a skillet, every troop carrier an oven and every inch of skin was basted in gritty sweat. The heat – 112 degrees and climbing – had become a force unto [...]
Nine veterans find healing through one-week course by Conrad Mulcahy, The New York Times The nine men who climbed to the summit of the Colorado mountain were combat veterans who had fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. Several knew the pain of bullets tearing through flesh. Others couldn't gather memories blown away by an explosion. Some [...]
Veterans Being Recruited for Business Systems Company DPSI Joins HireVeterans.com by Gordon Gates Diversified Protection Services Inc. (DPSI), a service provider of infrastructure systems for small to large business is immediately looking for U.S. Veterans to fill their active positions. DPSI provides full services to clients 7 days a week, 24 hours a day for [...]
World Class Information Technology Company Reaches Out to Hire U.S. Veterans TechFlow Joins HireVeterans.com By Randy Miller In today's economy, companies are under enormous pressure to reduce costs. To meet these challenges, companies are systematically launching high impact savings initiatives to leverage purchasing volume, consolidate suppliers, and reduce off-contract spending. However, without accurate business intelligence, it [...]
Gulf war veterans for 16 years have been leading the charge to get help for their gulf war illnesses. In another effort that highlights the lack of the Veterans Affairs providing outreach, gulf war veterans and advocates are stepping up to the plate in the form of providing buddy care just as they did in [...]
"Birth Defects Registry Data on Agent Orange and Gulf War Exposures" The organization Birth Defect Research for Children has created awebsite titled "Agent Orange and Birth Defects," which featuresabstracts of research and news briefs. Veterans who visit the site canpost comments and sign up for a list of other families in the Vietnamveteran community who [...]
Discovery Channel Investigates Gulf War Illnesses A ground breaking report using the cutting edge science of Chromosome testing. The veterans and researchers have been pushing for Biomarker Research and this report shows that maybe they are making headway to push the leading edge of science. Length of Part 1 is 9:13.Posted on YouTube here… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhvdkdMFVJQ [...]
NukeNet Anti-Nuclear Network (nukenet@energyjustice.net) New York TimesAugust 26, 2007 John W. Gofman, 88, Scientist and Advocate for Nuclear Safety, DiesBy JEREMY PEARCE Dr. John W. Gofman, a nuclear chemist and doctor who in the 1960s heightened public concerns about exposure to low-level radiation and became a leading voice against commercial nuclear power, died on Aug. [...]
Epidemiology of multiple sclerosis in Kuwait: new trends in incidence and prevalence. Alshubaili AF, Alramzy K, Ayyad YM, Gerish Y. Department of Neurology, Ibn Sina Hospital, Safat, Kuwait. alshubaili@hotmail.com The epidemiology of multiple sclerosis (MS) is undergoing dramatic changes; MS is occurring with increased frequency in many parts of the world. In this retrospective study, [...]
To all for years, since right after the war 90-91, I have searched out data in obits of gulf war veterans and forwarded the notifications to all it is amazing to me that people dont see the importance of this labor of love. I wanted to provide people with knowledge that our group were dying at [...]
A MILITARY MALPRACTICE Serum Samples From Service Members Go Unanalyzed. Battlefield Doctors Are Unable To Access Records. Who's Tracking The Troops? By REMINGTON NEVIN August 26, 2007 The Department of Defense is failing to properly monitor the long-term health of soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines more than 15 years after the outbreak of mysterious Persian [...]
President Bush is seeking to redeem the Vietnam WarAn analysis by Paul Reynolds, BBC NEWS President Bush is seeking to redeem the Vietnam War. He has tried to turn conventional wisdom about that war (that it was a quagmire and a sideshow in strategic terms) on its head. In his speech to the Veterans of [...]
Veteran's mailbox stuffed with checks, Chiclets After he Sent a Small Donation to Veterans' Causesby Mike Argento, York Daily Record Some time ago, Bill Walters got a solicitation for contributions to help disabled veterans. It was around Christmas, and the organization was raising money, it said, to help families of wounded veterans visit them over [...]
Controversy Builds About the Prevalence of PTSD in Vietnam Veterans Newswise — Controversy continues to swirl concerning the findings of a landmark study that estimated the percentage of Vietnam veterans suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Traumatic stress experts have renewed a clash over the results of the 1988 National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS), [...]
Inspection Company Hires U.S. Veterans Jobs for Veterans Available in the Infastructure Industry By Gordon Gates National Inspection & Consultants, Inc. (NIC), a provider of quality inspection, consulting, auditing, training, non-destructive testing, and technical expertise primarily to engineering, power utility, manufacturing, aircraft, military, aerospace, chemical, industrial and construction companies, is reaching out to hire U.S. [...]
CIA's 9/11 blunders laid bareby James Gordon Meek in Washington Up to 60 agents knew bin Laden's men in LA Planned to kidnap 9/11 mastermind in 1997 Howard approves terror attack drug stockpile THE extent of CIA blunders ahead of the attacks of September 11, 2001 has been laid bare by a blistering new report [...]
Proposal could fast-track full citizenship to a special class of recruit undocumented enlistees who arrived in the U.S. before age 16. by Fernando Quintero Left, Fort Carson soldier Army Spc. Chau Nguyen, who was born in Vietnam, is on the fast track to citizenship offered to immigrants who enlist in the military. A proposed law [...]
They continue to join the military in larger numbers than almost any other minority group – many out of a sense of tribal duty. by Jennifer Miller, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor Left, Donovan Nez joined the Marines out of a sense of tribal duty and to protect his native lands. He served two [...]
With military forces stretched thin, America may need to consider some form of universal national service by Jerome Slater and William Hauser Jerome Slater taught political science at the University at Buffalo from 1966 to 2000 and was appointed a University Research Scholar after his retirement. William Hauser is a retired Army colonel and corporative [...]
Short of Purple Hearts, Navy tells vet to buy ownby Anne Marie Kilday Left, Korean War veteran Nyles Reed purchased his own Purple Heart for $42 after he was told the medal was “out of stock.'' PEARLAND — Korean War veteran Nyles Reed, 75, opened an envelope last week to learn a Purple Heart had [...]
Fighting for a Diplomaby Elisabeth Salemme, TIME So much for one weekend a month, two weeks a year. Since Sept. 11, nearly 425,000 National Guard and reserve troops have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. Like temp workers with no benefits, however, these citizen-soldiers find that when they leave the reserve forces, they are not [...]
Suicide Rate in Army at a 26-Year Highby Pauline Jelinek WASHINGTON – Ninety-nine U.S. soldiers killed themselves last year, the highest rate of suicide in the Army in 26 years of record-keeping. Nearly a third of the soldiers who committed suicide did so while serving in Iraq or Afghanistan, according to a report released Thursday. [...]
It is a bizarre byproduct of the disastrous US war in Iraq, a growing – and seemingly invincible – Paralympic team. Gerard Wright talks to veterans who have turned to sport. At left, the US national wheelchair tennis champion … tries putting the shot. It is a bizarre byproduct of the disastrous US war in [...]
Each hour of every day, three people die from Hepatitis C or it's related conditions! Two of these people have Military backgrounds. Help us really stop the spread of Hepatitis C Before lending that support to Hepatitis C Epidemic Act, HR 2552, we believe you should have an opportunity to consider our position as well. [...]
A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay. Left, Kathleen Wright holds an image of her brother, Cecil Sinclair, who recently passed away, on Friday, Aug. 10. Relatives of Sinclair, a gay Navy veteran, say they are upset that a megachurch [...]
Code Breakers recognized for WWII Service by Wanda Chow Left, Edna Cooper, 82, shows off the pin she's received from the British government recognizing her as a war veteran for her contribution to the Enigma codebreaking project at Bletchley Park. Cooper, and some 10,000 other workers on the project had to keep their work secret for [...]
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