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October 2008
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding – Newport News, Va. is being awarded a $300,705,466 cost plus fixed fee contract for continuation of the refueling complex overhaul advance-planning efforts for the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and its reactor plants. This effort will continue to provide for advanced planning, shipchecks, design, documentation, engineering, procurement, fabrication and preliminary shipyard [...]
October 28th, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Jobs Now Available for Military Veterans at Weldmation Weldmation Allies with HireVeterans.com By Brian Kilne Technology Development As part of Weldmation’s efforts to remain a Best-in-Class provider of Assembly Machinery for metals-based assemblies in the North American automotive, defense, heavy equipment and consumer products industries, they are committed to offering the very best process and [...]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Jobs in Base Operating Support/Range Operating Support are Offered to Enterprising Veterans Planate Management Group LLC. Partners with HireVeterans.com By Brian Kilne Planate Management Group LLC provides installation management consulting services in a world that is flattening and becoming increasingly interconnected. They are committed to a creative spirit, client centric services, and loyalty to their employees. [...]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
The Global Leader in Security Solutions Seeks to Hire Veterans Garda Global Partners with HireVeterans.com Consulting and Investigation By Brian Kilne Crime can happen anywhere, at anytime. Just imagine for a moment the disastrous consequences of a criminal act committed against your organization: this could be costly and have a detrimental impact on your material, [...]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Jobs in Decision Support Software are Offered to Talented Technical Veterans 21Century Systems Inc. Partners with HireVeterans.com By Brian Kilne 21CSI delivers intelligent agent-based decision support systems. Their intelligent agents process and analyze large amounts of data quickly, providing real-time, actionable knowledge to decision makers in high-stress environments. By providing human decision makers with a [...]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
NAZI ASSASSINS PLANNING MASS MURDER AND RACE WAR "COLUMBINE" TYPE ATTACK FOLLOWED BY OBAMA MURDER IS NEW GOP COMMERCIAL MEANT TO RECRUIT REPLACEMENTS? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER (You would be angry too if Palin offered $300 for your legs) Immediately after the arrest of two Bush/Palin Skinhead/Nazi supporters for terrorist charges, the GOP has [...]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Retired Rear Adm. Patrick Dunne, VA’s undersecretary for benefits, met with McCarthy to discuss the discrepancies in disability compensation, which were first reported earlier this month by Rich Maze The report, based on information obtained by Veterans for Common Sense, showed that 45 percent of active-duty veterans of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq had filed [...]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Jobs in the Exciting Energy Sector are Offered to War Veterans FirstEnergy Corp. Partners with HireVeterans.com By Gordon Gates As one of the nation’s largest electric companies, FirstEnergy Corp. knows that it takes a large workforce of highly trained, dedicated and motivated men and women to generate and deliver electricity safely and reliably to their [...]
October 27th, 2008 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
Why Has John McCain Blocked Info on MIAs? By Sydney H. Schanberg John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home. Throughout his Senate [...]
October 26th, 2008 | Posted in Vietnam War | Read More »
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate connection: McCain was subjected to 5 ½ years of Soviet driven "brain perversion techniques."Is he fit to be President and Commander in Chief of the military? By Ted Sampley, U.S. Veteran Dispatch For years, the mainstream news media has refused to stop idolizing the so-called straight talking maverick John McCain [...]
October 26th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Iraq vets and post-traumatic stress: No easy answers * Study shows 1 in 5 U.S. veterans of Iraq, Afghanistan has PTSD, depression * One study found about half seek treatment; other study, less than 40 percent do * Kris Goldsmith returned from Iraq depressed, angry and profoundly changed * Today Goldsmith works with veterans’ rights [...]
October 26th, 2008 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Military Mom: Why I’m Sour About Sarah Palin After all, if my son can buck up and do yet another tour of duty in Iraq, I can face a crowd of Palin supporters. By Pat Alviso Today I decided that I needed to see the great communicator Sarah Palin in person at the giant Home [...]
October 26th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Supporting our Nations Heroes by George R. Smith As I am sure your aware, we are getting our Soldiers now returning to a bad economy and no work for them. Also, many have problems that their individual families can not deal with. When in harms way for so long the adrenal glands are always producing [...]
October 25th, 2008 | Posted in Support the Troops | Read More »
Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company Inc, Kansas City, Mo., was awarded Oct. 22, 2008, a $53,504,000 firm fixed price contract. The project consists of construction of a 145,000 square foot office/laboratory building for the Air Force. Work will be performed in Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., with estimated and completion date of July 10, 2010. [...]
October 25th, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Republican snubs middle class, vets, unified U.S. McCain Not My McChoice by Steven Stottlemyre, U.S. Army Veteran It was only a few years ago that I thought Sen. John McCain could have been an acceptable choice for president of the United States. That time has passed. I grew up in a middle-class family, in a [...]
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Enhanced VA Mortgage Options Now Available for Veterans Of Potential Benefit to Those in Financial Distress WASHINGTON — Veterans with conventional home loans now have new options for refinancing to a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) guaranteed home loan. These new options are available as a result of the Veterans’ Benefits Improvement Act of 2008, [...]
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Finance | Read More »
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. VA Co-Sponsoring Arts Festival. 2. Qwest To Provide Voice, Data Services To VA. 3. Homeless Facility In Illinois To Receive VA Grant. 4. Veteran Helps Set Up Alternative Drug Court In Oklahoma. 5. Expert Says More Data Needed On Mental Health Of Military Children. 6. USC Program Will Train Social Workers To Deal [...]
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
NO ROOM ON PLANET 3 FOR RELIGIOUS NUTS AND BIGOTS CHAPLAINS CORPS VICTIMIZES SOLDIERS LEAVING THEM VULNERABLE TO PTSD AND SUICIDE By Gordon Duff Earlier this year, I met with Christian and Islamic leaders in Iraq. Prettymuch everyone in Iraq is persecuted. Christians are on the bottom, then Sunni’s followed by Shiites. They suggest an [...]
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Mentally Unstable Soldiers Redeployed to IraqStretched Thin, Army Puts Some Vulnerable Soldiers Back on the Frontlines By BOB WOODRUFF, JAMES HILL and JAIME HENNESSEY Two weeks before his second deployment to Iraq last September, Army Specialist Michael DeVlieger broke down. "At first, I thought it was something that everybody experienced," DeVlieger told ABC’s Bob Woodruff, [...]
October 24th, 2008 | Posted in Coping | Read More »
Pay to veterans is off by $20 million says Congressman WASHINGTON – In a rush to shrink a backlog of unprocessed claims, The Pentagon wrongfully denied money to nearly 2,000 severelydisabled veterans, a House lawmaker said Wednesday. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, said his staff also calculated that the Pentagon made inaccurate payments of about $20 [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. VA Shifting To Backup Plan For New GI Bill Benefits. 2. Expert Concerned About US Troops Becoming Addicted To Painkillers. 3. Spokane VAMC Gets Suicide Prevention Coordinator. 4. VA At Forefront Of Electronic Medical Consent Technology. 5. FDA Wants Available Data For Electronic Safety System. 6. Veterans "Eagerly Awaiting Construction" of Orlando VAMC. [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Salute Our Heroes™: Veterans Career Fair and Job Expo Interview for unprecedented job opportunities at the fourth annual Salute Our Heroes™: Veterans Career Fair and Job Expo providing former servicemen and women and spouses of active-duty military personnel with unprecedented job opportunities and career seminars. Presented by The New York Times and Monster in partnership [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Jobs & Careers | Read More »
A great little story … most worthy to be passed along to everyone you know. A WAR HERO: The Old Man by Wndbear As I came out of the supermarket that sunny day, pushing my cart of groceries towards my car, I saw an old man with the hood of his car up and a [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
Vets group plans to sue over homeless sweep A veterans advocacy group Tuesday blasted a city-sponsored effort to clean up homeless camps in Colorado Springs, alleging the monthly sweeps involve improper searches and that personal belongings are routinely tossed out with the trash. "Homeless veterans have had VA paperwork, medications, photographs, identification and service medals [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Coping | Read More »
OFFICE OF SPECIAL RACIAL AND POLITICAL PURITY CHIEF INQUISITOR REP. MICHELLE BACHMANN (R) MINN. WANTS YOU! By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Washington DC (VTN) Applicants for positions in the new Office of Special Racial and Political Purity, under the Department of "Real" Homeland Security, are asked to submit applications in the next 30 days. Qualifications [...]
October 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Politics with Class, Honor and Respect Congress Investigated for Anti-American Activities by Sarah Washington I have personally taken up Michelle Bachmann’s challenge of having the news media take a strong look at each member of Congress to investigate them to find out if they are Anti-American. I think she requested us to do an "expose". To [...]
October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
AM General LLC, South Bend, Ind., was awarded Oct. 21, 2008, a $179,586,188 firm/ fixed price contract for High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled vehicles to contract. Work will be performed in Mishawaka, Ind., with an estimated and completion date of Dec. 31, 2009.Bids solicited were via Broad Agency Announcement and nine bids were received. TACOM, [...]
October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
VA To Deploy Mobile Counseling Centers across America 50 Motor Coaches to Bring Services Closer to Veterans WASHINGTON – The first of a fleet of 50 new mobile counseling centers for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Vet Center program was put into service today with the remainder scheduled to be activated over the next [...]
October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Vet News | Read More »
Technomad Military PA System Provides Event Audio for 200,000 Spectators per Day at Great New England Air Show Modular PA system provides clear voice and high-quality musical reproduction to multiple loudspeaker points across the entire flight line BOSTON – Technomad Associates, LLC, a leader in high-powered weatherproof PA systems and communications equipment for military, security [...]
October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Business | Read More »
Today’s Local News for Veterans What’s Inside 1. Peake Visits Charlie Norwood VAMC. 2. VA Temporarily Suspends Document Shredding. 3. Peake To Attend Groundbreaking For New Florida Facility. 4. Peake Says Guam Is Eligible For State Home Grant Assistance Program. 5. Spokane VAMC Takes Steps To Address Rise In Suicides. 6. Few Vets Injured In Iraq Decide To Complete MHS Survey. [...]
October 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »