by Denise Nichols, Staff Writer Veterans Today stands with the NGWRC to get the Clear and Real Truth of how many Gulf War Veterans were sent these erroneous letters from the VA. WE want to know the breakdown by VA Regional Offices how many letters were sent out erroneously that caused anxiety, fear, uncertainty within [...]
NUCLEAR SECRETS SOLD, AL QUAEDA OPERATIVES AIDED BY US OFFICIALS ISRAEL, TURKEY, SAUDI ARABIA AND IRAN INVOLVED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Top officials including Congressmenn Dennis Hastert, Dan Burton, Bob Livingston along with Paul Wolfowitz and the Rand Corporation are named as aiding in the recruiting of spies, blackmail, passing nuclear secrets and aiding enemies [...]
SHEFFIELD, Texas – The Youth Challenge Program sponsored by the Texas National Guard, provides second chances to young people in Texas every semester. The Texas Challenge Academy located in Sheffield, Texas, is designed to reclaim the potential of at-risk youth by training them to become successful, responsible, productive citizens through a program of mentoring, education, [...]
by Sandy Cook What’s the fuss? I mean that question quite literally. I don’t understand the fuss. I hear the fuss – Lord do I hear the fuss! – but not much of it makes much sense. From the left I hear a fading argument all in wonk-speak that doesn’t really tell me what they [...]
BOSTON, August 25, 2009 – Technomad LLC, a leader in high-powered weatherproof PA systems and communications equipment for military, security and other government applications, introduces the FireFly Micro PA Unit, the first portable, weatherproof, self-casing, all-in-one PA system for the military. The FireFly meets the requirements of a man-pack PA system while offering Technomad’s unsurpassed [...]
by Donna Teresa, Staff Writer Soap operas have been around since the early 1930s. A source of entertainment that started in radio, soap operas have become a television favorite. I admit, I’ve been a fan of daytime television for many years. It was inevitable I would, after all my grandmother was an avid soap watcher, [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Specter Requests Hearing On Veterans Care Booklet. 2. Veterans Mistakenly Told They Have Lou Gehrig’s Disease. 3. Distorting the Purpose of Veterans Affairs ‘Your Life, Your Choices.’. 4. Housing Units For Homeless Vets In Maryland Being Considered. 5. Bob Stump VAMC Welcomes Home Iraq, Afghanistan Veterans. 6. Grand Opening Held For New Vet Center In [...]
VA mistakenly informs 1,200 veterans that they have neurological condition CHARLESTON, W.Va. – At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease. One of the leaders of a Gulf War veterans group says panicked veterans from Alabama, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, [...]
By John Yaukey WASHINGTON — Charles Clark knew something was wrong when he started losing his teeth at age 37. "They just fell out — no blood," the Hawai’i resident said. He is virtually certain it had something to do with his Navy service in the Pacific during World War II, when he was exposed [...]
In an effort to bring medical care a little closer to the community of disabled veterans living in Southeast Georgia, U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., will host a Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee field hearing at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26, at Altamaha Technical College in Jesup. The committee, which has proposed establishing community-based outpatient clinics [...]
Moffatt & Nichol, Long Beach, Calif., is being awarded a maximum $100,000,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity architect/engineer (A/E) contract for design support services for various waterfront/marine projects covered by the Defense Policy Review Initiative and other projects in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific area of responsibility (AOR). The work to be performed provides for project [...]
NEW COMPANY TO LOCATE IN HARRISBURG Computer Aid, Inc. brings new jobs to area. HARRISBURG, PA – WASHINGTON, D.C. (8-24-09) HERO Company announced this afternoon that Computer Aid Incorporated (CAI) has made a major donation of office facilities that will result in the creation of 100 new jobs for service disabled veterans at their Harrisburg [...]
GARDEN GROVE, CA – August 24, 2009 – Veterans-For-Change is proud to hear that President Barack Obama recommends fulfilling the promises made to veterans by building a Twenty-first Century VA system. As a member of Veterans-For-Change, a non-profit vocal group for Veterans rights, benefits, and treatment, my co-members and I would like to bring to [...]
Secretary Shinseki Moves to Simplify PTSD Compensation Rules WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is taking steps to assist Veterans seeking compensation for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). “The hidden wounds of war are being addressed vigorously and comprehensively by this administration as we move VA [...]
MIDEAST WAR PART OF ECONOMIC STRATEGY By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Anyone wanting to track down the 9/11 hijackers and their support organization need look no further than Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco and even Germany. The last place you would look is Iraq or Afghanistan. If you wanted to find where they were trained and [...]
Today the New York Times is reporting that the Inspector General’s Office of the Justice Department is recommending to Attorney General Eric Holder the reversing of a Bush Administration directive not to prosecute intelligence operatives that tortured prisoners held in various places for many years as part of the American "War on Terror" (or is that [...]
Novozymes to Hire U.S. Veterans Now! by Marcy Bulstrom Novozymes is the biotech-based world leader in enzymes and microorganisms. They strive towards better business, cleaner environment and better lives. Using nature’s own technologies, they continuously expand the frontiers of biological solutions to improve industrial performance in all areas. Novozymes’ more than 600 products are a [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. IG Report Scrutinizes VA Technology Office Bonuses. 2. In Hawaii, Shinseki Stresses His Commitment To Alleviating Homelessness. 3. Shinseki Attends Groundbreaking For New Colorado VA Hospital. 4. Shinseki To Visit South Dakota Wednesday. 5. American Legion Convention Gets Under Way In Louisville. 6. Two Kansas VA Hospitals To Pay $51,501 Fine, Spend $500,000 [...]
From the National Gulf War Resource Center VA inadvertently sent letters to at least 1200 veterans notifying them that they have the terminal illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis commonly known as ALS. Letter from the VA States: "According to records of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), you have a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). This letter [...]
SOURCES SAY "BAD" BIN LADEN AN ACTOR REAL BIN LADEN US FRIEND, HOSPITALIZED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER With recent revelations that Osama bin Laden had been working with the Bush administration and CIA even while US forces were hunting him and that several Talban spokemen have turned out to be paid actors, at least [...]
By Robert L. Hanafin, Major, USAF-Retired, and Vietnam Veteran Chuck "Mutt" Winant, La Mesa, CA The idea for this three part story was sent in by a friend of mine who served in Vietnam, Chuck "Mutt" Winant. Chuck reminds us that "among the many half baked lies about America’s war against Viet Nam is the [...]
Jim Sims, a Tacoma native, has been elected National Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, a national veteran service organization with more than 44,000 members. Jim is a 1962 graduate of Saint Martin’s University in Olympia, Washington. After graduation from college, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant and served as a US [...]
After nearly 40 years of silence, convicted ex-Army officer says he’s sorry LEFT: Lt. William L. Calley Jr., in a photo taken on April 23, 1971, during his court-martial at Fort Benning, Ga. He was convicted of the 1968 killing of 22 civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai. COLUMBUS, Ga. – Speaking in [...]
SIDING AGAINST THEIR OWN CONTINUALLY UNINFORMED, MISINFORMED, MISLED BUT LOVING IT By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Does this describe American veterans? In general, yes, this is correct. Any group or organization that works to help veterans and protect their rights has one big enemy, veterans. If you try to protect a vet from persecution, impoverishment or [...]
COLLUSION WITH TERRORISTS, DEATH SQUADS, CORRUPTION BUSH ERA CRIMES UNPUNISHED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER America has just come out of an 8 year crime spree. From the highest levels of our government, working behind our backs with the terrorist we are now fighting to one Federal agency after another, taking orders from financial thieves, [...]
VA workers given millions in bonuses as vets await checks Report details financial, ethical misconduct among IT employees at VA Department Report: Retired VA official acted as if she was given a "blank checkbook" for bonuses Bonuses were paid despite backlog of vets’ disability claims WASHINGTON – While hundreds of thousands of disability claims lay [...]
I fully realize that I will have my name muddied for this support of Scotland’s Justice Minister in sending the dying Libyan convicted spy home to die in Libya. I will only say that Western justice systems do not operate on revenge or vengance. They operate on clear adherance to law, proof of a crime and compassion [...]
Boeing Co., Long Beach, Calif., was awarded a $1,155,052,014 modified contract for the C-17 Globemaster III sustainment partnership fy09 to provide the total system support for the C-17 weapon system to include program management, sustaining logistics, material and equipment management, sustaining engineering, depot level aircraft maintenance, engine management, long term sustainment planning, air logistics center [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. IG Issues "Scathing" Reports On VA Technology Office Employees. 2. Quality Measurement, IT Said To Have Transformed VHA. 3. VA Awards Contracts For Pennsylvania Cemetery. 4. Shinseki To Speak At Hawaii Statehood Conference. 5. Schools Urged To Re-Examine Policies For Granting College Credit To Veterans6. Vet-To-Vet Therapy Expanding In Montana. 7. FDA Taps VA [...]
Indigo Films, www.indigofilms.com a top rated production company for shows on Discovery Channel, A&E, Travel Channel, National Geographic, TLC, and The History Channel has joined with HireVeterans.com and is seeking an On Camera Talent for a series of The Military Channel shows. They will be looking for experts from a variety of jobs in all [...]
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