Dick Cheney invitation to Speak at DAV Meeting Pulled Over Veeps Unreasonable Demands By James Gordon Meek WASHINGTON – Vice President Cheney’s invitation to address wounded combat veterans next month has been yanked because the group felt his security demands were Draconian and unreasonable. The veep had planned to speak to the Disabled American Veterans at [...]
15 Travel to Vietnam with Memorial Fund Delegation by Lisa Gough In just a few short days, 15 individuals from around the United States will be taking part in a 10-day trip to Vietnam with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. These individuals include Vietnam veterans, family members, widows of veterans and educators. All of them [...]
Widow’s VA claim gaining steam By GEORGE WERNETH A Mobile woman says she was encouraged recently when a Department of Veterans Affairs appeals judge agreed to review a claim involving her late husband, who believed that his Army exposure to radiation triggered his deadly cancer. Theresa Orrell said she has been struggling with the VA [...]
After World War II vet misses out on decades of government benefits, family moves to raise awareness among othersGENESEE COUNTY, Michigan — World War II veteran and former Prisoner of War William Jones didn’t know he was eligible for thousands of dollars in veteran benefits over the past six decades. By the time he did, [...]
VIDEO: Watch the Newly Posted Video by CAPTAINQUINN Jane Fonda? This woman crossed the line. Big time. While other artists of her era were protesting the Vietnam war with music and art, Jane Fonda, on the other hand, chose to become a traitor. In the early seventies she began her efforts by organizing a production [...]
Purcell-Lawman, Watertown, N.Y., was awarded on Jul. 23, 2008, a $33,434,500 firm-fixed price contract for the construction of the Warrior in Transition facility. Work will be performed in Fort Drum, N.Y., and is expected to be completed by Feb. 10, 2010. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. [...]
MEDIA REPORT: DEBATE RAGES OVER OBAMA AFGHANISTAN PLAN(S) by Bob Hanafin This is a article was also posted on my blogs at Progress Ohio and Veterans for Common Sense. The intent of the article is to highlight the fact that QUESTIONS remain [within the anti-Iraqnam War movement itself] regarding not only HOW Senator Barack Obama [...]
September meetings in DC, ON GULF WAR ILLNESS by Denise Nichols aka DSNurse Hi Gulf War Veterans wanted to let you know that National Gulf War Resource Center will have an annual meeting starting prior to the VA Research Advisory Committee meeting (Sept 15-16 in DC. More details on that will come next week. They [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary Thousands of Veterans Have Called Suicide Hot Line. VA Said To Be "Light Years Ahead" On Electronic Health Records. Official Says VA Is Doing More To Help Homeless Female Veterans. VA Considering New Plan For Unused Marion Buildings. Welcome Home Event Held [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary Peake "Clears Way" For Advertising Veterans’ Benefits. Former Mayor Must Repay VA Benefits After Falsifying Record. VA Addressing Issue Of Female-Specific Care, Including Assault. Retirees To Benefit From New Concurrent Receipt Regulations. Navy SEAL Creates Group To Help Veterans Pursue Public Service [...]
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary National Wheelchair Games Begin In Omaha. Former Mayor May Face Prison For "Embellishing" Military Record. VA To Close Nursing Home Due To Safety Concerns. Sanchez Says Military Is "Overwhelmed" By Wounded Warriors. Army Chief Of Staff Calls Army "Out [...]
TV Documentary Looking for PTSD Victims MTV Doing Show on Veterans with PTSD "True Life" is a documentary series that’s been on MTV for 10 years. Each episode of "True Life" is about a different topic. Most of the topics have some global, social or personal importance. All episodes aim to tell deeply personal stories. There is [...]
Program Reaches Out to Educate Veterans about Suicide Hotline By Meghan Vittrup, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, – The Department of Veterans Affairs is launching a pilot outreach program to encourage veterans to use the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — 1-800-273-TALK (8255) — if they need help. The program is being launched July 21 “to [...]
McCain Hits Obama Hard by Frank "Rocky" Ray, HMC, USN, Retired Before a military audience in Denver today, John McCain launched his strongest attack yet against Barack Obama. The attack was devastating because it is true. Here are some excerpts; McCain began by recalling the beginning of the surge: Senator Obama and I also faced a [...]
Civil Rights Violations at the Department of Veterans Affairs by Jeffrey Schwartz, Ph.D. Thousands of blind/visually impaired individuals are employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.I am a clinical psychologist and have been there for 33 years. I am also on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine. I suffer from a progressive retinal [...]
Vets allege mismanagement of retirement colony By Justin Juozapavicius, Army Times WILBURTON, Okla. — Nestled among the lush forests and mountain foothills of rural southeastern Oklahoma is a soldier’s utopia, a sleepy enclave where U.S. military veterans can claim their share of the American dream for pennies on the dollar. For 75 years, the little-known [...]
Officer: Part of anti-Obama e-mail was wrong By Matthew Cox and Rick Maze – Army Times An Army officer’s negative e-mail account of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s visit with the troops in Afghanistan that set the blogosphere ablaze prompted Army officials to correct aspects of the e-mail and resulted in a statement from the [...]
New law widens combat pay scope By Tom Philpott, Heraldnet.com New groups of disabled retirees will be able this year to draw Combat-Related Special Compensation or higher amounts of Concurrent Retired Disability Payments under legislation passed in January. Defense Finance and Accounting Service officials explained in an interview how they are implementing the changes. Again [...]
VFW WASHINGTON WEEKLY In This Issue Guard/Reserve Access to VA 2. Agent Orange Bill 1. Guard/Reserve Access to VA: The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee held an oversight hearing this week on Guard and Reserve access to VA benefits. The hearing focused on a recent VA audit report on outreach and transition assistance programs to veterans [...]
Developers Wanted to Build Housing for VA The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is seeking "expressions of interest" from developers and service providers interested in homeless housing development opportunities on the grounds of one or more VA Medical Center (VAMC) campuses. This will be accomplished through the long-term out-lease of currently underutilized VAMC land [...]
VA offers new online resource service SAN ANTONIO (AFRNS) – The Department of Veterans Affairs is offering a new online service, My HealtheVet, which is a gateway to veteran health benefits and services. It provides access to: trusted health information; links to federal and VA benefits and resources; the Personal Health Journal; and online VA [...]
A CALL FOR ACTION: AUGUST 1ST PROTEST RALLY FOR VETERANS AT MCCAIN CAMPAIGN STOP My friends, we all know if we fail to send our message to the people, LOUD AND CLEAR, in order to save our Republic, we must become more involved in government and in the way Politicians are handling things. The "MCCAIN [...]
Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) of McLean, Va.; MacAulay Brown, Inc. (MacB) of Dayton, Ohio; Client/Server Software Solutions, Inc. (CSSS.NET) of Bellevue, Neb.; ITT Corp., Advanced Engineering & Sciences Div (ITT AES) of Herndon, Va.; Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego, Calif.; and CACI Technologies, Inc. of Chantilly, Va., are being awarded an [...]
Once We Were "the Chosen"…."The Light of the World" Years of "Business/Conservative Friendly Government Has Made Us Into a "Banana Republic" by Gordon Duff Please, take a moment and examine things we know. After 7 years of "Patriotic Leadership" we have very little left to be patriotic about. We live in a country that openly [...]
Took a Month to Rest in Europe Now Need a Year to Recover By Gordon Duff Just flew in from Paris last night, arms tired as hell. I spent about a month in Europe in a yearly self imposed scheme of physical punishment and that endless seach for the "Jim Morrison/Ernest Hemingway" view of life. [...]
VA Rolling Out Suicide Hotline Ads in DCPeake: First-of-Its-Kind Test for VA WASHINGTON – Veterans and other residents of metropolitan Washington, D.C., have begun seeing outreach information on buses and inside subway cars about the suicide prevention hotline of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The red-white-and-blue displays, the centerpiece of a new three-month outreach [...]
wards First Construction Contract, Appoints Director WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has named the national cemetery to be built near Columbia, S.C., as the “Fort Jackson National Cemetery.” VA also awarded a $2.53 million construction contract for the initial phase of development to International Public Works, LLC, of North Charleston. The new [...]
Officials release facts about new GI Bill by Staff Sgt. J.G. BuzanowskiSecretary of the Air Force Public Affairs WASHINGTON (AFRNS) — Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs officials are working out the details of a new education benefit recently approved by Congress that goes into effect Aug. 1, 2009. "The absolute most important part of [...]
NEWS FROM… CHAIRMAN BOB FILNERHOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS Congress Must Act to Restore Earned Benefits to All Vietnam Veterans – Including “Blue Water” Vets! Washington, D.C. – On Wednesday, July 23, 2008, House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA) held a press conference to announce the introduction of H.R. 6562, the Agent Orange [...]
The Retired Enlisted Association Buries It’s National President Patrick W. Corbett This is a sad day for The Retired Enlisted Association. Today is the funeral of our National President Patrick W. Corbett in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. He was buried with full military honors at Union Cemetery. President Corbett dedicated years working for TREA. First he worked [...]
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