Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems of Linthicum, Md., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract with cost plus fixed fee (Completion) type task order for a shared ceiling of ID/IQ contract of $41 million. This contract action for Sensors Technology Automated Recognition is to develop technologies in a wide-range of application areas that [...]
Major Defense Contractor and Aviation Leader Pledges Big Bucks to Help the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Center Boeing has pledged $1 million to help build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Center, joining an elite group of corporations, foundations and individuals who support this important project on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Boeing has been a long-time supporter [...]
AUTHOR OF A DEADLY MISUNDERSTANDING, CONGRESSMAN MARK SILJANDER FACES PRISON AS SECRET US MONEY FOR BIN LADEN "MISDIRECTED" TO FINANCE COUNTERETERRORISM BOOK By Gordon Duff, Staff Writer President Reagan’s Attorney General Edwin Meese believes the arrest of Mark Siljander, an irrational abuse of executive power by the Bush/Rove/Gonzales Justice Department. Reagan Secretary of State James Baker [...]
CODDLING THE TROOPS or CATERING TO TERRORISTS WAR IN THE INFORMATION AGE By Gordon Duff, Staff Writer If this doesn’t seem crazy to you, it should. We are told that our military in Iraq now lives in barracks with airconditioning, high speed internet and every recreation known to man. We are also told they ride to [...]
VA Announces New Nursing Academy Sites Department Strengthens Partnerships with Seven Nursing Schools WASHINGTON — To provide compassionate, highly-trained nurses to serve the health care needs of the nation’s veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is establishing new partnerships with seven of the country’s finest nursing schools. The partnerships will bring to 10 the [...]
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. House of Representatives approved one bill on Tuesday, and two additional bills Wednesday which would improve benefits and services for veterans and their families. The bills now await action by the U.S. Senate. On Tuesday evening, members voted 398-0 to pass H.R. 2192, as amended, to create an ombudsman office [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary 1. Peake Stresses Importance Of Wheelchair Games. 2. Korean Official Visits War Memorial In Massachusetts. 3. VA Considering New Location For Louisiana Hospital. 4. Coalition To Discuss Closure Of VA Nursing Home. South Carolina Man Pleads Guilty In VA Benefits Theft Case. 5. Huntington VAMC Honors Nurse. [...]
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, along with local officials in Quang Tri Province, will be dedicating a cultural community center and preschool complex in Ha Bac Village, Vietnam, at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 5. The complex was built for the Van Kieu ethnic minority tribe and will be used to host educational workshops about [...]
HAVE YOU HEARD? The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer has given the San Juan, PR, VA Medical Center its highest award – Three Years with Commendation – certifying VA’s commitment to maintaining the highest standards in cancer diagnosis and treatment. The Three-Year Commendation is awarded to programs that comply with all standards and [...]
News from the VA’s Office of Human Resources and Administration What’s Inside: Discrimination in the European Union: Perceptions, Experiences, and Attitudes 3 Keys to Increasing Employee Retention and Nurturing Diversity. Inclusion Incorporated: Meet the People Driving Diversity. Best Practices From the Best Employers. Federal Human Resources Shops Are Slow to Change. Organization Development Basics. Federal Appointment [...]
Hensel Phelps Construction Co., Chantilly, Va., is being awarded a $312,495,000 firm-fixed-price contract for design/build to collocated Military Department (MILDEP) Investigative Agencies, Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Va. The contract value includes contract line item 000l, base bid, three chillers enhancement, heater exchange enhancement, upgraded lobby/finish enhancement, and upgrade executive spaces enhancement. The contract is [...]
Kentucky weapons depot confirms mustard gas leak by Jeffrey McMurray LEXINGTON, Ky. — The first mustard gas leak in three years was confirmed Tuesday at a chemical weapons stockpile in Kentucky, less than a month after workers there found a leak inside a separate storage igloo housing a deadly nerve agent. But officials said the [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary 1. Officials Say Suicide Prevention Hotline Has Been A Success. 2. Research Indicates Group Exposure Therapy Helps With Combat Stress. 3. Special VA Teams Managing Care Of Recent Vets. 4. VA Facilities In Wyoming Adding Staff, Programs. 5. Palo Alto VA Holds "Appreciation Coffee" For Vets, Military [...]
Gulf War Veterans INFORMATION Service in the Persian Gulf Military personnel who served in the Gulf War have had a significantly higher incidence of undiagnosed illnesses than those who were not deployed to the theatre of operations. Veterans who participated in Operation Desert Shield/Storm are now referred to as Gulf War veterans rather than Persian Gulf [...]
VFW National Convention to be held in Orlando Aug. 16-21 Every summer, thousands of VFW delegates to the national convention converge in a major U.S. city to elect national officers and vote on new governing amendments and organizational bylaws. In 2007, the 108th VFW National Convention was held in Kansas City, Mo., August 18-23. Future [...]
The purpose of The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Q10 and Gulf War Veterans Research Study is to learn whether taking Ubiquinone (Coenzyme Q10 or CoQ10), an over-the-counter nutritional supplement, reduces symptoms and benefits the health and quality of life of Gulf War Veterans with chronic, multi-symptom health problems. Health problems may include fatigue, [...]
Exposure to sarin may have caused brain damage in U.S. troops On March 4th 1991, four days after the end of the Persian Gulf War, ground troops from the U.S. 37th Engineering Battalion destroyed large caches of weapons found at the Khamisiyah Ammunitions Storage Facility, a site approximately 25 square kilometres in size, located some [...]
FILNER’S "AGENT ORANGE EQUITY ACT" WOEFULLY INADEQUATE – House Vets’ Chair reneges on promise to help "all veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange" by leaving out those exposed outside Vietnam. Much has been made of Rep. Bob Filner’s (D-CA) "Agent Orange Equity Act of 2008," H.R. 6562. Some vets think this will resolve the [...]
HAVE YOU HEARD? Aug 20 – 24 Sporting Event for Senior Veterans Some 600 “golden age” veterans from across the country meet in Indianapolis to compete in the largest sports and recreational competition for senior veterans August 20-24. It’s the 22nd National Veterans Golden Age Games, co-sponsored by VA, Help Hospitalized Veterans (HHV) and the [...]
Enchanted Tutu Announces Operation Sea of Support to Show Support for United States Service Members Killen, TX – Enchanted Tutu has initiated a campaign to provide a Yellow Ribbon Tutu free of charge to each daughter of every Service Member returning from deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Enchanted Tutu has initiated a campaign which will provide [...]
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems of Linthicum, Md., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract with cost plus fixed fee (completion) type task order for a shared ceiling of ID/IQ contract of $41 million. This contract action for Sensors Technology Automated Recognition is to develop technologies in a wide-range of application areas that continue [...]
THE THOUGHT OF WAR MAY BE AMERICA’S MOST SUCCESSFUL PRODUCT HAVE WE LOST AMERICA BY DEFENDING AMERICA? By Gordon Duff Nearly 70 years ago, Republican isolationists warned that President Roosevelt was pushing America into war against a man they admired and millions of Americans looked up to, Adolf Hitler. Today this claim sounds odd but [...]
Create a Rewarding Future After Leaving the Military Major Financial Services Firm Reaches Out to Hire Veterans Leaving the Air Force, Army, Navy, or Marines? You may have what it takes to create a successful sales career at The Western and Southern Financial Group (Western & Southern). They are looking for men and women like you: [...]
PTSD leaves physical footprints on the brain by Justin Berton At a recent conference for some of the area’s leading neurologists, San Francisco physicist Norbert Schuff captured his colleagues’ attention when he presented colorful brain images of U.S. soldiers who had returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. The yellow [...]
by Donna Teresa, Homefront Journal If you are an injured or disabled veteran needing assistance or physical therapy, you can look past the hospital room to find outdoor recreation, thanks to the generosity of many organizations across America. Here on the Central Coast, the Monterey Bay Veterans Inc. has been providing the gift of sports [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary Veterans Groups Ask Appeals Court To Expedite PTSD Care. House To Consider Several Veterans-Related Bills Peake Defends Plan To Replace Denver Facility. Peake’s Korean Counterpart To Visit Korean War Memorial In Massachusetts. Few Complaints Heard About Accessibility At Wheelchair Games. Review Expected [...]
Congressman Phil Hare says 30,000 troops are being improperly diagnosed By Laura Michels Congressman Phil Hare is helping a Chillicothe man get his money back from the United States Army. Hare was in Chillicothe Monday in support of Donald Louis Schmidt. Schmidt was discharged for having a pre-existing personality disorder in 2006 and when he [...]
VA Denial of Presumption for Sarin Exposures DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: Determination of Presumption of Service Connection Concerning Illnesses Discussed in National Academy of Sciences Report on Gulf War and Health: Updated Literature Review of Sarin AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. As required by law, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hereby gives notice that [...]
Concurrent pays expand, VA retro pay review set By Tom Philpott, Special to Stars and Stripes New groups of disabled retirees will be able this year to draw Combat-Related Special Compensation (CRSC) or higher amounts of Concurrent Retired Disability Payments (CRDP) under legislation passed last January. Defense Finance and Accounting Service officials explained in an [...]
Former NJ mayor gets probation in war lies case By WAYNE PARRY CAMDEN, N.J. — A judge ordered former Atlantic City Mayor Robert Levy on Friday to serve three years’ probation and pay a $5,000 fine for lying about his Vietnam War service to pad his benefits check. During a sentencing hearing, U.S. District Court [...]
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