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August 2008
General Dynamics Information Technology, Fairfax, Va., is being awarded a $33,604,027 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract (N00421-07-D-0024) to exercise an option for information technology/information management department support services. This modification provides for a wide range of services and products, including information engineering; business process improvement relative to automation; analytical and technical support [...]
August 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
THE INVISIBLE ARMY OF PUPPETMASTERS DEFENDING AMERICANS AGAINST FREEDOM WASHINGTON “PR” AGENCIES AND LOBBYISTS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER My name is Joe. I nearly started a war with Russia but I have never run for office or served in the military. I write articles calling “global warming” a fraud but am not a scientist. [...]
August 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
CONSERVATIVE PUNDIT WRITES MCCAIN CAMP COMPLICITY IN GEORGIA TREASON BY PAT BUCHANAN from www.HumanEvents.com Conservative Digest He is the principal foreign policy adviser to John McCain and potential successor to Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security adviser to the president of the United States. But Randy Scheunemann has another identity, another role. He [...]
August 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
The days of the green Class A’s are over The Army’s plan to make dress blues the only Army Service Uniform has been approved and soldiers who own the uniform are encouraged to begin wearing it now, the Army announced Wednesday. The move to eliminate the green uniform is designed to streamline soldiers’ clothing bags [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Military | Read More »
News from the VA’s Office of Human Resources and Administration What’s Inside: 1. Focus on Inner Diversity Can Improve Productivity, Communication. 2. Growing Global Executive Talent: High Priority, Limited Progress. 3. Top Tips: Cultural Diversity in Businesses – New Zealand. 4. Symbolic Recognition: The Art Behind Corporate Emotional Connection. 5. OPM Reevaluates Human Capital Marks for [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
VA Raising Home Loan Ceilings in Many Areas up to $ 729,000 Improved Benefits Aid Disabled Veterans in Adapting Homes WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will use a locality-based approach in raising ceilings on its no-downpayment home loans from the current $417,000 to as much as $729,000. The increases are effective immediately [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Personal Finance | Read More »
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary 1. Peake Says Almenoff Will Not Oversee VA Quality Control. 2. VA Preparing To Transfer Texas Facility To State. 3. Veteran Calls For Stand-Alone Facility. 4. Labor Department Launches Veterans Employment Initiative. 5. Veterans From Vermont, New Hampshire Participating In Golden Age Games. 6. VA To Open Resource [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
VA proposes contract preferences for veterans By Matthew Weigelt The Veterans Affairs Department proposed revising its acquisition regulations to boost federal dollars going to businesses owned by military veterans, according to a notice today in the Federal Register. According to the proposed changes, VA contracting officers would be able to restrict competitions for contracts to [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Using PTSD as a Defense By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes When Sgt. Sean M. Beveridge faced a court-martial last year for attacking German civilians with a retractable club in Amberg, defense attorneys and witnesses pointed to Beveridge’s service in Iraq, which they said left him with post-traumatic stress disorder. Beveridge was severely wounded and [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Coping | Read More »
Veterans Awareness Day and Walkathon ‘March’ Friday August 29th, 2008 10 AM – 2 PM Every Veteran and Veteran Supporter needs to assemble and march to make sure that our elected officials are aware of Veterans’ needs: · Full Mandatory Funding of VA Healthcare and Related Services· Full Eligibility for VA Healthcare for ALL Veterans [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
Core Tech International Corp., Tamuning, Guam, is being awarded a $41,956,600 firm-fixed-price contract to replace housing units at Old Apra, Phase 2, Naval Base, Guam. This is a design-build project with performance and prescriptive requirements provided by the Government. The family units will consist of single and duplex family housing units. As housing units [...]
August 21st, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary 1. Golden Age Games Set To Begin. 2. VA Says It Providing Needed Amount Of Mental Health Services. 3. VA To Take Over Old Naval Hospital In South Carolina. 4. Local Officials Get Update On New VA Clinic In Oklahoma. 5. VA [...]
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Friday, August 29, 2008, is Veterans Awareness Day March and Rally. Commissioner Tony Peraica and Alderman Dick Mell, sponsors of the Veterans Awareness Day Resolutions for Cook County and City of Chicago, respectfully, will be joined by Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley and Illinois’ Lt. Governor Patrick Quinn. Veterans and their supporters will assemble at three [...]
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
MARTINEZ ADDRESSES VFW CONVENTION Orlando, FL- U.S. Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) today addressed the 109th National Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. in Orlando, FL. The senator discussed the important contributions veterans have made to our nation. In addition, he underscored the need to improve veterans’ access to quality health care. [...]
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
L-3 Communications Integrated Systems L.P., Waco, Texas, is being awarded a $60,630,244 not-to-exceed undefinitized contract action for the fabrication and delivery of four P-3 Outer Wing Assembly kits in support of the P-3 recovery plan. Work will be performed in South Korea, (51 percent) and Waco, Texas, (49 percent), and is expected to be completed [...]
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
WITHOUT RACE HATRED, WE WOULD HAVE NO POLITICS AT ALL RACISM IS POLITICS LIKE CONSERVATISM IS FEAR AND GREED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Americans can be such a pack of liars. Isn’t it time we came out of the closet? Reagan told us that greed and fear were American virtues. We built a way [...]
August 20th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Bobby Castillo, WWII veteran, longtime member of memorial honor detail, dies By JOE VARGO, The Press-Enterprise Bobby Castillo’s life revolved around service to his fellow veterans. As a young man, Mr. Castillo served in the Navy, took part in the epic D-Day invasion of June 6, 1944, and, days later, suffered serious wounds when his [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in World War II | Read More »
World’s Largest Annual Sporting Event for Senior Veterans Begins22nd Year of VA-Sponsored Sporting Competition WASHINGTON (Aug. 19, 2008) – More than 700 veterans from across the country have traveled to Indianapolis to compete in the largest sports and recreational competition for senior veterans in the world – the 22nd National Veterans Golden Age Games — [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
Medicaid’s New Math Can a little cost-cutting actually improve the quality of health care? Two states are trying to find out. By PENELOPE LEMOV There it sits: the Medicaid hog, eating up nearly 22 percent of state budgets. In 2007, states spent $151 billion of their own money on health coverage for the needy. That [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Today’s Local News for Veterans from around the Country What’s Inside: A Summary 1. Peake To Open Clinic In North Carolina. 2. VFW Says Peake Will Address Convention. 3. Peake’s Job Performance Praised. 4. Studies Show Sleep Deprivation Common Among Veterans. 5. Educational Program Called ‘Model’ For Veterans Assistance. 6. Counseling Program Inspired By Volunteer Therapists. 7. Group Says Many Military Service [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Priority of Service (POS) issue A message sent on Friday, August 15, provided initial information about the NPRM on Priority of Service. We learned today that the pdf version of the NPRM can be accessed on-line at: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-18869.pdf As indicated in the message sent on Friday, this message follows-up by providing additional information about the Information Collection [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Suez Energy Resources NA, Inc., Houston, Texas is being awarded a maximum $646,007,724 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for electrical services. Other locations of performance are in Maryland, and New Jersey. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force and federal civilian agencies. There were originally 195 proposals solicited with 11 responses. Contract [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
VA Opening Rural Health Resource Centers WASHINGTON — The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will open three Veterans Rural Health Resource Centers on Oct. 1 to better understand rural health issues for veterans and develop special practices and products to implement across the country. “For our veterans living in rural areas, the nearest medical center [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Army offers list of cleanup sites at Fort Monroe HAMPTON, Va. The Army has listed 33 sites at Fort Monroe that would require cleanup for possible hazardous materials before it leaves the military base in 2011. The sites include a former machine shop, an old landfill, artillery ranges and offices in which photos were developed. [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Soldiers: Rooms infested by mold LAWTON, Okla. — Mold infests the barracks that were set up here a year ago for wounded soldiers after poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center triggered a systemwide overhaul, soldiers say. Twenty soldiers, who spoke to USA TODAY early last week, say their complaints about mold and other [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Military | Read More »
Willie Nelson Works to Motivate the American People with Public Service Announcements helping Veterans by Jere Beery On August 29th a series of 5 public service announcements (PSAs) featuring American Icon Willie Nelson are scheduled to premier at Dailey Plaza in Chicago, Illinois. The PSAs were produced by Operation Firing For Effect (OFFE) and are designed [...]
August 19th, 2008 | Posted in Support the Troops | Read More »
Respected Veteran Representatives, The land-use situation at the BIGGEST AND BUSIEST VA health care facility in the nation, the "HOME" at VA, WLA, is out of control. Further, the terms conditions, spirit and intent of the Grant Deed of 1888 that created that "HOME", to "permanently maintain" a health care community for returning Veterans, are [...]
August 18th, 2008 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
Russia invades Georgia and Brentwood invades the National Veterans Home by Robert L. Rosebrock, Co-Director, We the Veterans No doubt everyone has been following the sequence of events regarding Russia’s recent invasion and occupation of certain parts of sovereign Georgia. It’s been hard not to follow with all the press coverage that it has received [...]
August 17th, 2008 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
IVAW has had a busy summer, as our membership continues to grow by leaps and bounds. While both political parties become more and more absorbed in the presidential race, IVAW continues our hard work at the grassroots level, building a GI resistance movement that is doing more to end the Iraq occupation than the politicians [...]
August 17th, 2008 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
Bad news, good news and bad news on the inflation front. The first bad news item is this: Inflation jumped 0.5 percent for the month of July. The higher cost of living is primarily the result of the ripple effect (on food and other items) because of the high price of oil. The good news [...]
August 17th, 2008 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
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