Military Debates Purple Heart Awards For Mental StressBy YOCHI J. DREAZEN, Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON — Centuries before Iraq and Afghanistan, George Washington created the Purple Heart to honor troops wounded in combat. But with an increasing number of troops being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, the modern military is debating an idea Gen. Washington [...]
FORGOTTEN PHONIES AND WANNABEES…OLIVER NORTH: THE "DRUGSTORE MARINE" BY: COLONEL DAVID HACKWORTH, FROM PLAYBOY INTERVIEW 1994 NOTE: Colonel Hackworth or "Hack" as we called him has been gone for 3 years. As our most decorated war hero and veteran of WW2, Korea and Vietnam and author of numerous works on war and the military, his [...]
"Belated Thank You to the Merchant Mariners of World War II Act," would award $1,000 a month to merchant crewmen who served in WWIIBY GUY TRIDGELL Henry Clemens was flunking high school in 1943 when he decided to help his country in World War II. The Army wouldn’t take him because he was still a [...]
TWO VIEWS ON A SIMILAR ISSUE: TWO THIEVES PLOTTING THEIR NEXT HEISTBY. G. DUFF AND AN ANONYMOUS VETERAN Today’s news stories are another congressional investigation. With Democrats in charge, years of theft in Iraq and elsewhere is coming to the surface. For years, the Bush administration has done less than nothing to control corruption in [...]
SOLDIERS’ ANGELS FOUNDER WINS! Patti Patton-Bader Named "America’s Favorite Mom" America’s Favorite Mom Has Big Plans Soldiers’ Angels founder Patti Patton-Bader was named "America’s Favorite Mom" in a primetime television show Sunday night on NBC. Sponsored by Teleflora and hosted by Donnie and Marie Osmond, the show highlighted fifteen outstanding mothers who had distinguished themselves [...]
The jump coincides with the extension of combat tours from 12 to 15 months.By Julian E. Barnes, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The number of soldiers forced to remain in the Army involuntarily under the military’s controversial "stop-loss" program has risen sharply since the Pentagon extended combat tours last year, officials said Thursday. [...]
Veteran Affair’s Change to Agent Orange Claims May Aid Veteransby Chris Roberts, El Paso Times Veterans Affairs has started taking claims for hypertension related to Agent Orange exposure, but it will determine at a later date whether the claims will be honored as being military "service-related," according to service organizations that received notices from VA. [...]
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it will help war veterans to register and vote, yet it won’t allow registration drives on VA facilities.By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet The Department of Veterans Affairs has retreated on a recently announced policy to allow voter registration drives at its facilities where veterans’ groups and others would assist wounded former [...]
Benedictine University to begin offering Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Free Education Lisle, Illinois ~ They fight insurgents and build schools in Iraq and Afghanistan, but today’s veterans face an even greater battle at home – affording a decent college education. The original G.I. Bill – the Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944 – covered full tuition at [...]
What happens when a service member is called from a deployment to return to the United States due to a family or medical emergency? Often that service member does not have time to go back to the base camp to pack for the trip home; they are immediately put on a transport aircraft and sent [...]
180,000 BLANKETS FOR THE TROOPS Soldiers’ Angels Announces Holiday Blanket Drive Non-profit Soldiers’ Angels announces the Blankets of Belief project, designed to tell each American Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine and Coast Guardsman deployed around the world during the 2008-2009 Holiday Season, “We Believe in You!” This winter, an estimated 180,000 U.S. military personnel will be [...]
Your fears, anxieties, and other problems have the best of you and you don’t know where to turn for help. At some point you feel totally helpless as you struggle each day. No matter what you do, you cannot run away or hide from your fears. In these cases, some people will use alcohol or [...]
When your fears and depression have the best of you, it is easy to feel that things will not get any better. This is not true. There is much help available in today’s society and the best way to deal with your fears is to find effective ways to overcome them. As a result, here [...]
What do you do when someone you know has to deal with persistent fears, anxieties, or even depression? Well the first thing you need to do is to get the person to seek the services of a professional who can lead them in the right direction and give them the help they need. In addition, [...]
All most everybody worries about what will happen in the future. The prospect of not knowing if something good or bad will happen to you in the near future can produce a lot of fear and anxiety. As a result, here is a list of techniques and suggestions on how to manage this fear of [...]
Sometime or another we will experience a time when we are alone. The first step is to become comfortable with yourself and having the self-confidence that you will be able to manage being alone. There is nothing wrong with being alone. If being alone bothers you then seeing a counselor can help you with these [...]
Some people have a difficult time in managing their depression. Sometimes, their depression and fears can get best of them. As a result, here is a short list of techniques that a person can use to help manage their depression. One of the ways to manage your depression is to challenge your negative thinking with [...]
Everybody deals with anxiety and depression, however some people have a hard time in managing it. As a result, here is a brief list of techniques that a person can use to help manage their most persistent fears and every day anxieties. When facing a current or upcoming task that overwhelms you with a lot [...]
More than 43,000 medically unfit soldiers were deployed to Iraq and Afghanistanby Gregg Zoroya, USA Today WASHINGTON — More than 43,000 U.S. troops listed as medically unfit for combat in the weeks before their scheduled deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan since 2003 were sent anyway, Pentagon records show. This reliance on troops found medically "non-deployable" is another [...]
World Class Leading Oil Refinery in Texas Reaches Out Hire U.S. Veterans Major Texas Employer Searching for Qualified Military Veterans to Help Run world class Refinery by Gordon G. Gates BP Texas City is the world’s most complex refinery. As BP’s largest refinery in the world and the third-largest refinery in the US, BP Texas [...]
Defense Industry Tax Havens Shelter Greedy Busniessmen from the U.S. TaxpayerLawmakers want these companies to pay Medicare, Social Security taxes When the Pentagon announced an obscure California company had won a lucrative military contract, no one mentioned any plans for a Caribbean outpost — a tropical shell the company quickly created that allowed it to [...]
***CALLING ALL VETERANS!*** Talk about your experience with the GI Bill! Steve Henn, Senior reporter of Marketplace would love to speak with recent Veterans about there experiences with the GI bill after returning from either Iraq or Afghanistan. His deadline is tight and he must wrap up any interviews by about 3:30 pm Eastern time. If you [...]
The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets of Their Own MilitaryBy Scott Ritter, Truthdig I recently heard from an anti-war student I met while I was speaking at a college in northern Vermont. The e-mail included the following query: "I told you about how I wanted to build a career around social [...]
Veterans Civil Rights are Being Violated! Save Our Veterans Land Takes Action by Robert Rosebrock Yesterday, we held our eighth Sunday Rally to "Save Our Veterans Land" at the Los Angeles National Veteran’s Home. Francisco Juarez’s raising the long string of American Flags across the front of the fence was very patriotic, symbolic and inspiring. [...]
US lawmakers have accused the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of being out of control and of covering up the high suicide rate among Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans. by Karin Zeitvogel WASHINGTON (AFP) – "The VA healthcare system has been pushed to the edge in dealing with the mental health care needs of our veterans," [...]
Female soldiers in Iraq are on the Frontlines in Iraqby Claudia Parsons Left, Shannon Morgan, a female soldier in an engineering unit featured in the film ‘Lioness,’ is seen here on the porch of her family’s Mena, Arkansas home in this undated handout photo.(Steve Maning/Handout/Reuters) NEW YORK (Reuters) – Women are officially barred from frontline combat [...]
Wounded War Veteran Gives Back to Soldiers Transitioning Back HomeBy Rudabeh Shahbazi HERMISTON– As soldiers trickle back to eastern Oregon from Iraq, they are finding comfort in a local man who lost his leg in battle. Sgt. Luke Wilson has discovered his calling back here at home, helping other vets transition to back to [...]
Realistic Job Solutions from a Thankful Nation by G. Duff Vets have opportunities like never before in today’s worldwide economy. With current laws protecting vets from losing their jobs due to service and a great economy brought on by NAFTA and our Jobs to China program, never have things looked so rosy for returning troops. [...]
Sergeant Merlin German dies from Burn Cmplications The Miracle Marine an inspiration to Americans everywhere Marine Sgt. Merlin German died April 11 at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio Texas. He was there continuing his treatment for injuries suffered in combat in Anbar Province Iraq on Feb. 22, 2005. Sgt. German became a symbol of [...]
YEARS TOO LATE AMERICAN "PATRIOTS" TURN ON BUSH LIKE YAPPING DOGS G.DUFF Those who care about polls learned yesterday that Bush is now officially what so many have always known, an official failure. Most of us know him to be a fool with beliefs out of the Middle Ages. Thousands, rumored to be millions but nobody [...]
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