Science Applications International Corp., Fairfield, N.J. is being awarded a maximum $500,000,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite quantity and indefinite delivery, prime vendor contract for maintenance, repair and operations supplies. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Federal Civilian Agencies. The original proposal [...]
by Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer The growing use of private armies not only subjects target populations to savage warfare but makes it easier for the White House to subvert domestic public opinion and wage wars. Americans are less inclined to oppose a war that is being fought by hired foreign mercenaries, even when their own [...]
Veterans and Civilians your voice Must be heard on the issue of VA Cancellation of Critical contract with UTSW! Why Is This Contract So Critical and Why Was It Cancelled? Let me see if I can put it in real terms. This research at UTSW Medical in Dallas had concentrated on finding the Neurological Damage [...]
New Service Expands Online Access for Veterans WASHINGTON – The Suicide Prevention campaign of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is expanding its outreach to all Veterans by piloting an online, one-to-one “chat service” for Veterans who prefer reaching out for assistance using the Internet. Called “Veterans Chat,” the new service enables Veterans, their families [...]
LOS ANGELES POLICE CLOSE IN ON PROTESTING VETS SHOULD PROTESTS END? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITERCovering the 2 year protest in Los Angeles has been frustrating. None of it is really about veteran’s land. How can land be veterans land if Veterans Affairs with their police force and locked gates run it? Veterans land is [...]
As a doctor, I committed myself many years ago to helping others through medicine. Research for undiagnosed or unknown illnesses is a critical part of providing care to patients. So I was disappointed to hear that the Veterans Administration has decided to terminate its contract with the UT Southwestern Medical Center conducting research on Gulf [...]
The Washington Post reports today that Major General Charles Bond, USAF Retired, died yesterday at the age of 94 of dementia. He died in an assisted living community in Dallas, Texas. He is one of the last surviving Flying Tigers of World War II fame. The Flying Tigers, a group of active duty pilots who [...]
by Denise Nichols, Staff Writer How Do I go on? I am not sure. I ask all my veterans and civilian friends to unite and further distribute news of all the facts. The Gulf War Veterans are ill and are DYING! This is beyond sitting and just reading. The Government now for 18 years has refused [...]
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FLUSHING SOLDIERS, MONEY AND COMMON SENSE DOWN THE TOILET By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Long ago, terrorists attacked the United States. We attacked a country some people said the terrorists came from. The terrorists really didn’t come from there. The story was a lie, one of many, but, what the hell, why not, we had to attack [...]
In a stunning and absolutely crucial piece of American political news relative to our war on terrorism, the Associated Press reports this morning that former Vice President Dick Cheney feels that the present Attorney General, Eric Holder, is bending to President Obama’s clearly political wishes to investigate the CIA again for war crime abuses. I [...]
The New York Times is today runnng an article, that strangely enough, is something we should all want to read as veterans, even though it concerns disloyalty of team mates playing a game to help the other side win. It seems to be a growing problem in American baseball and I believe that it has [...]
In today’s New York Times there is an article outlining a secret Pakistani missile test this past June that went unannounced until now. American intelligence believes that the Pakistanis illegally took an American naval ship to ship missile called the Harpoon and altered it to strke at India in a surface to suface scenario that [...]
Oshkosh Corporation, Oshkosh, Wisc., was awarded on August 26, 2009 a $ 280,919,717 5 year firm-fixed-price contract to purchase 2,568 Medium Tactical Vehicles plus Ordering Tear (OY) 01 Program Support, OY 01 data, additional care and storage, component first article test, first production vehicle inspection test, production verification test, live test family medium tactical vehicles [...]
A Gulf War Veteran Salutes Senator Kennedy As we all mourn the passing of Senator Kennedy, The Lion of the Senate and Health Care and a Veteran himself, who always answered the call from service members and their families. I sit here and wonder what would he say about the current situation of cutting funds [...]
TATTERED FLAG ON A RUSTED STAFF ANOTHER SLAP IN THE FACE FROM LA VETERANS OFFICIALS by Robert L. Rosebrock, Staff Writer Just when you thought the Los Angeles VA bureaucrats couldn’t stoop any lower, or be any more disrespectful and insulting toward America’s Veterans, they ceremoniously pushed their sleaziness to a new low by disgracefully flying soiled, [...]
THE Critical Steps That Are NOW IN LIMBO For Gulf War Veterans Next Steps The symptoms of veterans suffering from Gulf War illnesses are subjective, and the causes, diagnoses, and treatments are elusive. Therefore, a guiding principle for this research program has always been that objective studies—verified by researchers at different institutions and replicated in [...]
The Government Side of the Dispute with Gulf War Illness UTSW Medical AKAKA URGES SHINSEKI TO TERMINATE CONTRACT WITH UNIVERSITY AFTER INVESTIGATION REVEALS BREACH OF TERMS IG finds VA in error and University in breach of $15 million contract on Gulf War IllnessWASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) reacted [...]
The Implications of U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Limited Scope of Gulf War Illness Research340 Cannon House Office Building Opening Statements Hon. Harry E. Mitchell, Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hon. John J. Hall, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York Witness Testimonies Panel 1 Lynn Goldman, M.D., MPH, Professor, Bloomberg [...]
Why can’t there be a Third Way? Personal Editorial on Gulf War Illness VA Collaborative Center UTSWMED Dallas Here is a brief Editorial just posted from a Dallas Source.UT Southwestern’s Gulf War setback Just a few weeks ago, congressional influence and common sense seemed to have combined to save UT Southwestern’s research efforts to determine [...]
The following article appeared in the Mideast edition of Stars and Stripes, the Pentagon funded newspaper serving our troops and military families around the world was sent to us by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) and Veterans for Peace (VFP) San Diego organizer Jan Ruhman. During the 1960s & 70s when Jan was in [...]
by Veterans for Common Sense The claim that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has a manual encouraging veterans to "commit suicide," made by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, is an asinine assertion with no basis in fact. Steele made the charge two days ago (August 25th) on FOX News. Steele’s egregious comments are [...]
September the first, 1939, marks the start of Nazi Germanys invasion of Poland and the beginning of the Second World War. Without a declaration of war, German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire from Danzig harbor on the Polish garrison in the Westerplatte. The assault on Poland unleashed a new form of warfare called the "blitzkrieg, (pron. [...]
Secretary Announces $7 Million for Mississippi Veterans Cemetery Secretary Shinseki Announces $7 Million for Mississippi Cemetery First State Veterans Cemetery to be Established in Newton WASHINGTON – Veterans living in central Mississippi will soon have a final resting place that will honor their service to the nation. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Shinseki Takes "Tough Questions" From Vets In Nebraska.2. VA Estimates 600 Vets Were Mistakenly Told They Had ALS. 3. IG Cites Longstanding Awareness Of "Serious Problems" With Hospital Appointment Project. 4. Shinseki, White House Team To Seek Input From VHA Employees On Cutting Backlog. 5. Mental Health Treatment To Be Offered At [...]
Air BP a division of BP Products North America, Inc., Warrenville, Ill. is being awarded a maximum $112,125,808 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for fuel. There are multiple locations of performance. Using service is the Defense Energy Support Center. There were 69 proposals originally solicited with four [...]
National Gulf War Resource Center Responds to UTSWMED Contract Cancellation on Gulf War Illness Research NGWRC in reviewing both sides of the Contracting Failure for the UTSWMED/VA Collaborative Center on Gulf War Illness views the situation as a potential loss most of all to the ill Gulf War Veterans. Jim Bunker, President of the NGWRC, states [...]
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is telling university officials nationwide there will be a six- to eight-week delay in processing payments under the new GI bill, citing a massive backlog of applications. By Shane Ersland, The Daily Iowan, U. of Iowa After five years of active duty in the Army and four days into [...]
By Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer Allowing today’s leaders to get away with war crimes will send a dangerous signal to future leaders that they can do the same. “The battle to impose criminal responsibility upon them (Bush, Cheney, etc.) is not for today alone but to safeguard a vast future,” points out Lawrence Velvel, dean [...]
Last September the Secretary of Veterans Affairs made amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) a presumptively compensable illness for all Veterans with 90 days or more of continuous active service in the military. As a result, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) can now pay disability compensation to Veterans with ALS. Their survivors are also eligible for [...]
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