H.R. 333 would amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability rated less than 50 percent to receive concurrent payment of both retired pay and veterans’ disability compensation, to eliminate the phase-in period for concurrent receipt, to extend eligibility for concurrent receipt to chapter [...]
THE ECONOMY IS NOT WORKING FOR WORKING FAMILIES TODAY—AND HEALTH CARE IS A MAJOR PART OF THE PROBLEM. Across America, families are making hard decisions between paying for health care and paying for other necessities and struggling with a system that is too often cruel and inefficient. As President Obama has said, "Health care reform [...]
Employers know veterans can make the best employees, from top to bottom they understand that veterans are mission oriented, detail minded, and not afraid of hard work, veteran employees understand the team concept that if one member of the team fails, the entire team fails, employers know that veterans are their best employee when the chips [...]
This guide provides practical advice on how to deal with the effects financial difficulties can have on your physical and mental health — it covers: This guide provides practical advice on how to deal with the effects financial difficulties can have on your physical and mental health — it covers: Possible health risks Warning [...]
SPACE RACE INCREASING RISK OF NUCLEAR WAR By Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer An unchecked race to militarize space is underway that is “increasing the risk of an accidental nuclear war while shortening the time for sanity and diplomacy to come into play to halt crises,” an authority on space warfare says. By 2025, the space [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Shinseki Opens Winter Sports Clinic. 2. VA Hospital Looking Into Father’s Concerns About Care Being Provided To Son. 3. VA, DOD Create Group To Develop Joint Electronic Health Record. 4. Obama Proposes Increased VA Budget. 5. Rehab Center Hoping To Work More With VA Patients. 6. Wife Wants Afghanistan Vet Out Of Jail [...]
We spend enormous sums to enforce the laws against drugs Mexican cartels have set up operations in 230 American cities, he says Enforcement doesn’t stop Americans from finding ways to get drugs Many other uses for the billions we spend in war on drugs By Jack Cafferty, CNN NEW YORK – Here’s something to think about: [...]
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Pacific Division andThe California Disabled Veterans Business Alliance8th Annual Veterans and Small Business Training and Outreach Conference 14 April – 16 April 2009John Ascuaga’s Nugget Casino Resort1100 Nugget Avenue Sparks, Nevada Harness the Power of America’s Small Business! In expectation of the upcoming Eighth Annual Veterans and Small [...]
There’s a big difference between what we say and what they hear, what counts most is the idea that we are earnestly trying to listen to and understand each other better; demonstrating respect as a result by Chris Seiple Arlington, Va. – In the course of my travels – from the Middle East to Central [...]
"Who is more responsible for prostitution, the hookers or the johns? It is a shared responsibility," said Cutler, a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies, a group opposed to illegal immigration. Reporting from Los Angeles and Washington — Stepping into the political minefield of immigration reform, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano soon will direct [...]
2009 – The Year of the Military Family I just received this legislative alert from Bobby Muller of Veterans for America. Though I passionately support the legislation, I do not endorse Blue Star Families due to their past tradtion of exclusionary policies meaning one has to drink the pro-war cool aid in order to be [...]
The strategy must focus less on elections and more on political bargains that promote a new Iraqi national compact. Istanbul, Turkey – President Obama’s announcement that he intends to withdraw most US troops from Iraq by August 2010 is most welcome, heralding the end of the Bush administration’s disastrous war. Relieved as we may [...]
Look for work. Walk the dog. Then look for work again. James Statham, is a tall, stocky aircraft sheet metal worker and former Air Force sergeant who followed the job: Sacramento, Chico, then, last July, tiny Oscoda, Mich., a one-time military town on the shore of Lake Huron off Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. Four months later, [...]
The alternative to persistent warfare by Col. DOUGLAS MacGREGOR (Ret.) Despite the seriousness of the present economic crisis, the greatest danger to the future security of the U.S. is Washington’s inclination to impose political solutions with the use of American military power in many parts of the world where Washington’s solutions are unneeded and unsustainable. President [...]
A soldier, a reconstruction expert, and a peace activist tell of how Iraq has changed – and what more needs to be done. Washington – For Staff Sgt. Todd Bowers, America’s six years in Iraq have been an accomplishment and a tragedy best summed up in the life of a single man – an Iraqi [...]
"For those of you who have been on the ground in Afghanistan, you have seen with your own eyes that a lot of these aid programs don’t work," she said. "There are so many problems with them. There are problems of design, there are problems of staffing, there are problems of implementation, there are problems [...]
BY D. C. Liberty 30 Mar 2009 I just saw "GIBBS" on CSPAN He suggested We citizens go buy new cars. An he admitted "OBAMA" also is behind this plan. This is "STUPID", On top of that "GIBBS" still suggests GM and Chrysler might still go BK? WHAT the F K IS THAT ? America [...]
Washington, D.C. – On Monday, March 30, 2009, Bob Filner (D-CA), Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, announced that the House of Representatives considered three bills that would improve benefits and services to veterans provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The House unanimously passed all three bills. H.R. 1377, as amended [...]
Philips Medical Systems, Andover, Mass. is being awarded a maximum $77,172,660 fixed price with economic price adjustment contract for patient monitoring systems, subsystems, accessories, consumables, spare/repair parts and training. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. There were originally 17 proposals solicited [...]
Nonprofit pays for people to bus to places where they have family or other support systems. Mayor R. Rex Parris says Lancaster has become a ‘dumping ground’ for other cities’ homeless. Andrea and Greg Killgore were already living on the streets in Las Vegas when they decided to relocate to Lancaster in early March. They [...]
WARREN, Ohio, – The U.S. government, under prodding from Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has agreed to pay $3,000 to settle a medical bill for a soldier seriously wounded in Iraq. Sgt. Erik Roberts of Warren, Ohio, told CNN he went out of the Veterans Affairs system to get surgery at Vanderbilt Orthpaedics in Nashville because [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Winter Sports Clinic Underway. 2. VA Offering Mental Health Services To Vets. 3. Akaka Meets With Duckworth 4. Veterans Courts Becoming More Commonplace. 5. Mobile Vet Center Unveiled After Vietnam Service. 6. Lack Of Mental Health Services Said To Exacerbate Homeless Problem In Texas. 7. VA Hospital In Florida Suspends Colonoscopies. 8. Batavia VA Facility [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Veterans Suffering From Traumatic Brain Injuries Often Have Accompanying Impairments. 2. New Jersey Event Raises Funds For Veteran Who Lost Legs In Iraq. 3. Maryland Veterans Want To Retain Mental Healthcare Contractor. 4. Shift Of Veterans From Urban To Rural Areas Noted. 5. Woman Found Dead On New York VA Hospital Campus [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. VA And Pentagon Form Electronic Records Working Troup. 2. VistA Considered Potential Model For Obama Electronic Records Initiative. 3. VA Decision To Pay Iraq Veteran’s Private Hospital Bill Noted. 4. General Uses Personal Tragedy To Combat Upswing In Military Suicides. 5. 16 Patients Infected By Contaminated Equipment At VA Facilities. 6. Former VA [...]
CAMP Mabry, Austin, Texas – In what was described as a landmark event, three generals took command of their respective units during the Annual Joint Conference at the Renaissance Hotel at the Arboretum Friday. Maj. Gen. Eddy M. Spurgin, 36th Infantry Division Commander, Brig. Gen. Joyce Stevens, Assistant Adjutant General Army, and Brig. Gen. John [...]
VA Process Overly Burdensome, Adversarial to Prove War Zone Injuries and Illnesses Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, March 24, 2009, the House Veterans’ Affairs Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee, led by Chairman John Hall (D-NY), conducted a hearing to examine the issues surrounding how the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) applies the provision “engaged [...]
March 30 – Eight months after opening its first facility for homeless veterans, the New York City-based homeless service provider Common Ground was chosen as the preferred provider for a similar facility on the Veterans Administration grounds in Westwood. Common Ground – which was chosen this month along with builder Macormack Barron Salazar to provide [...]
A US sergeant became on Monday the second non-commissioned officer to be convicted of murder for the summary executions of four bound and blindfolded prisoners in Iraq in 2007. Sergeant First Class Joseph P. Mayo told a court martial in Germany that the men of Middle Eastern appearance were shot in the back of the [...]
Washington After six years of war have almost worn down the military, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is trying to make the armed forces whole again. In suspending this week an unpopular policy that required some soldiers to stay in the forces because their skills were needed in time of war, Mr. Gates is dismantling [...]
Colorado… After a decade of delays and budget shortfalls, Colorado will finally get the brand-new, stand-alone VA hospital veterans organizations have wanted, After a decade of delays and budget shortfalls, Colorado will finally get the brand-new, stand-alone VA hospital veterans organizations have wanted, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki announced Wednesday morning. Construction will begin [...]
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