The only blind officer in Army, also serves with Special Forces by Kevin Maurer, AP Left, although Castro still requires some assistance, he asks for no special favors. "I want to be treated the same way as other officers," Castro said. "I don’t want them to take pity over me or give me something I’ve not earned." FORT [...]
Are you sick and tired of the Democrats and Republicans? Nobody Speaking to You? Try Chuck Baldwin for President in 2008 by John Allen This Independant Presidential Candidate stands up for Veterans without the rhetoric and pandering of the other 2 guys who represent the old "do nothing" parties. Check out his views on Veterans & Military. [...]
HISTORY RE-LIVED: President McKinley Visits Veterans in Los Angeles National Veterans Home: Rally to Save Hallowed Land for Veterans Held This Past Sunday Chuck Baldwin, Candidate for President of the USA (American Independent Constitution Party) Visits Veterans by Robert Rosebrock On May 9, 1901, President William McKinley visited America’s military Veterans at the National Soldiers Home [...]
Help End the Oil Wars and Save Lives Help Our Future Soldier Out of Harms Way While calls for more oil drilling dominate the headlines, experts say taking simple steps to use less could save twice as much. Yeah, want to help our country save a quick million barrels of oil a day and get [...]
Job Hunting a Major Challenge for our Veterans Unemployment rate for wounded veterans is estimated in double digits With the economy in dire straits, The job market is tightening and it’s just not like the good ole days. I mean picture this, you’re a disabled veteran having to deal with your injuries and reconnecting with civilian [...]
Ex-Democratic candidate Supports Obama Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate is reaching out and supporting Barack Obama. Yesterday, Clark said John McCain’s military service does not automatically qualify him to be commander in chief. Underscoring during a national television appearance a position he has been expressing for several weeks, Clark said performing [...]
Report: U.S. ‘preparing the battlefield’ in Iran * New Yorker article says Congress authorized up to $400 million for covert ops in Iran * Journalist Seymour Hersh says program is being staged from Afghanistan * U.S. officials decline comment, deny the U.S. is launching raids from Iraq * Iranian general says troops are building [...]
Occupation Plan for Iraq Faulted in Army History by Michael R. Gordon, New York Times WASHINGTON — Soon after American forces toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, Gen. Tommy R. Franks surprised senior Army officers by revamping the Baghdad-based military command. The decision reflected the assumption by General Franks, the top American commander for the [...]
NEW "SWIFT VET" GROUP BEING FORMED ANY CAUSE, ANY POLITICIAN IF THE MONEY IS GOOD by Gordon Duff With returning veterans jobless and homeless, sponsors are being sought for a new veterans group that will work for any candidate and any cause this election. We are looking for oil money, big tobacco money, insurance money, pro-war [...]
Obama quietly visits wounded vets at Walter ReedBy SARA KUGLER WASHINGTON — Barack Obama stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday to visit wounded war veterans, a group that he has said endures substandard care under the Bush administration. The presumed Democratic nominee, who was in Washington to speak to the National Association of [...]
The United States Senate has approved additional funding of $162bn for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill includes significant extra funding for US war veterans’ education and unemployment benefits. It is a victory for President George W Bush, and does not include timetables for withdrawing US troops from Iraq, something Mr Bush vigorously opposed. With [...]
At last the incurably traumatized may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, ecstasy may be key to taming their demons. By Amy Turner, The Times of London UK. At last the incurably traumatized may be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. And controversially, the key to taming [...]
Managing Job Searches Just Got Easier For Veterans & Military Service MembersBy Trish Forant Military service members and Veterans looking for jobs now have another great resource at their fingertips. JibberJobberUSA.com, an amazing tool that allows job seekers to manage and organize their job searches, has been online for over two years and soon after they launched their website they announced there [...]
BUY VA FORECLOSED HOMES NOW VENDEE FINANCING PROVIDES PATH FOR MANY WITH CREDIT CHALLENGES by John P. Allen If you’re thinking about buying a VA-owned property, Vendee Financing may be an option for you. Unlike VA Loans, which are guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and only granted to U.S. Veterans and their [...]
Low approval rate for vets’ chemical tests claimsBy ERICA WERNER – 5 days ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs Department has granted only 6 percent of health claims filed by veterans of secret Cold War chemical and germ warfare tests conducted by the Pentagon, according to figures obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. Veterans [...]
GOUT: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BY CAROL DUFF RN Gout is a painful and common type of arthritis. One out of 100 will develop gout at some point. Gout is the most common cause of inflammatory arthritis in men over 40.This malady has been around for centuries and is one of the [...]
Supporting Our Troops Through Social MediaBy Trish Forant We are at war. Yet, today, through the advances in technology we can do instantly what in previous wars took weeks, even months to achieve – with the click of a mouse, we have the ability to send immediate support to a military service member. We can [...]
Happy HomecomingBy Trish Forant Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Nicholas Beyer holds his 4-month-old son for the first time during homecoming celebrations for the crew of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 3 at Naval Station Norfolk. Beyer and several other new fathers were [...]
Antidepressants used by troops signal heavy mental and psychological toll in Iraq and Afghanistanby Mark Thompson Seven months after Sergeant Christopher LeJeune started scouting Baghdad’s dangerous roads — acting as bait to lure insurgents into the open so his Army unit could kill them — he found himself growing increasingly despondent. "We’d been doing some [...]
How to Recoup Taxes Paid on Disability Severance pay From the Armed Forcesby Allan B. Colombo Many medically discharged vets, including some good friends of mine, don’t know they are entitled to get the taxes back if they get a VA rating. The one’s who do know they are entitled (like I did) don’t know [...]
War Veteran and senator, VA back discount on gas for war veterans New York–A Cayuga County war veteran has a plan that will make it easier for all veterans to fill up their gas tanks. More than 50 years ago, Paul Spottack volunteered to serve in the Korean War. Now more than ever, the words "support [...]
PICKENS FAILS TO PAY KERRY’S CREW FOR PROVING HIM LIAR VETS BACK KERRY - TIME TO "PAY UP" OR GET OUT By G. Duff The idea that a president who had dodged the draft during wartime would attack veterans who served by having billionaire’s pay vets to lie for him should be unthinkable. It is not. At [...]
GI Bill is a major victory for veteransBy Paul Rieckhoff, Huffington Post For anyone following the fight for a new GI Bill, progress seemed to slow to a crawl recently. After the House and Senate overwhelmingly passed the veterans’ education benefit as a part of the war funding supplemental, reconciling their two versions of the legislation [...]
Veterans groups want the VA to get its health care money on day one of each fiscal yearBy Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., National Journal Veterans benefits are one of the most popular causes in Congress. But Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics are routinely buffeted by the annual uncertainties of the increasingly dysfunctional budget process on [...]
Handmade Pens for the Deployed – Freedom Pens Partners with Soldiers’ Angels Soldiers’ Angels proudly announces its partnership with the Freedom Pens project to send beautiful handmade wooden or Corian plastic pens to military personnel in remote locations in Iraq and Afghanistan, including 100 pens to the sailors of the currently-deployed U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. Led [...]
SOLDIERS’ ANGELS AND BAKE ME A WISH! SEND FREEDOM CAKES TO OUR MILITARY HEROES WITH EVERY CAKE PURCHASED ON BAKEMEAWISH.COM Organizations Partner to Send Freedom Cakes to Our Troops, Wherever They Are With thousands of U.S. troops deployed overseas, the Soldiers’ Angels and BakeMeAWish.com, are offering a unique opportunity for consumers to send a message [...]
Americans celebrate the day our fledgling country declared its independence in 1776 with fireworks, family gatherings, plenty of food and good fun. At the Rose Bowl in Pasadena they have been doing it consistently since 1926. This year Drum Corps International (DCI) Marching Music’s Major Leagues TM, presents five of the country’s best Drum and [...]
FROM JUNGLE FIGHTERS AND LIONS TO A SLEEPING GENERATIONBY: G. DUFF I served with a Marine Rifle Squad in Vietnam. Leaving Vietnam and my squad, I felt like I was leaving my only real home and the best friends I would ever have. 40 years has proven that to be more true than I would [...]
After a six-year battle that cut to the Constitution’s core, a look at how advocates for Gitmo prisoners won a major victory against Bush. By Liliana Segura, AlterNet In perhaps its most significant ruling in the so-called War on Terror, the Supreme Court resurrected the ancient writ of habeas corpus on Thursday, ruling that the [...]
Tuskegee Airmen to be subject of Lucas film Movie will address trials that famed black pilots faced during World War II The black airmen whose lives will be the basis of a George Lucas movie know the picture will highlight their record of successfully escorting thousands of U.S. bombers in World War II. They also [...]
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