Lease Will Give VA More Space for Health Care Services WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has announced a plan to expand health care in Albany, N.Y., by leasing 2.4 acres to a private-sector medical facility in exchange for construction of a 30,000 square-foot building for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) [...]
As vets await checks, VA workers get $24M bonuses By KIMBERLY HEFLING, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – Outside the Veterans Affairs Department, severely wounded veterans have faced financial hardship waiting for their first disability payment. Inside, money has been flowing in the form of $24 million in bonuses. In scathing reports this week, the VA’s [...]
VA HEALTHCARE – BUSH SYSTEM TOUTED BY REPUBLICANS AS DISASTER By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER graphic courtesy: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele Yesterday, Democrats, led by Rep. Henry Waxman, announced that veterans would be kept out of the new national health care system. This was meant to be a postive thing, I guess. With the [...]
ANOTHER CONSPIRACY THEORY PROVEN TRUE WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Tom Ridge has finally spoken up and admitted what so many have known for so long, that the entire war on terror, the one killing so many Americans, is a "wag the dog" operation. Did he admit this much? If you [...]
Supporters with different political view points about wars past and present rally to save our veterans’ land. By Steve Crandall, Staff Writer The rally on the 16th of August to save our veterans’ property was a great success. We had individuals representing the Disabled American Veterans, Gold Star Families Speak Out, The Evan Ashcraft Foundation, [...]
Ex-soldiers don’t need to be told they’re a burden to society. by Jim Towey If President Obama wants to better understand why America’s discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery [...]
By MARK STEVENSON MEXICO CITY — Mexico enacted a controversial law on Thursday that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs while encouraging free government treatment for drug dependency. The law defines "personal use" amounts for drugs, also including LSD and methamphetamines. People detained with those quantities no longer face [...]
We’re still sorting through the health-care deal Henry Waxman struck with Blue Dog Democrats recently, but one 11th-hour revision stands out. Namely, veterans will now be "exempt from the requirements of the legislation." That’s how Mr. Waxman’s staff put it in a memo to reporters earlier this month, announcing amendments that the House Energy and [...]
Ex-DHS chief links politics to terror alerts TREASON IS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE Advancing Political Agenda at dangerous expense of the public good is a criminal act by Johnny Punish, Staff Writer Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge claims in a new book "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege…And How We Can Be Safe [...]
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.– Retired Maj. Gen. George Weightman, M.D., has been named an associate director, chief operating officer and professor at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Weightman, who recently retired as commander of the United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, oversees the day-to-day operations of the institute. “We are fortunate to have [...]
Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $151,577,441 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-07-C-5431) to procure 186 Evolved SEASPARROW Missiles (ESSM), 77 shipping containers, and spares for the NATO SEASPARROW Consortium and the United Arab Emirates. Work will be performed in Tucson, Ariz., (45 percent); Camden, Ark., (2 percent); Andover, Mass,. (10 percent), [...]
AtHoc, Inc., the pioneer and leader in network-centric emergency notification systems, today announced a deal with the U.S. Army’s Fort Bliss to deploy a network-centric emergency alerting system. Located in Texas and New Mexico, Fort Bliss is the U.S. Army’s largest training center. The deployment of AtHoc IWSAlerts™ IP-based mass notification system will enable the [...]
Secretary Shinseki Announces Award of $1.8 Million to Delaware Grant Will Expand the State Veterans Cemetery in Sussex WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is awarding $1.8 million to the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Sussex to expand its facility. “This vital federal-state partnership [...]
Secretary Shinseki Announces $8.8 Million for Washington Cemetery Facility Would Be First of its Kind in State WASHINGTON – Ensuring that military Veterans living in eastern Washington have a final resting place that honors their service to the nation, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced the award of $8.8 million to establish the [...]
One America’s Premier Broadcasting Companies Offers Jobs to U.S. Veterans Citadel Broadcasting Joins HireVeterans.com by Marcy Bullstrom Citadel Broadcasting is the largest pure play radio company in the United States, with a strong national footprint reaching more than 50 markets. Citadel is comprised of 165 FM stations and 58 AM stations in the nation’s leading [...]
ONE OF AMERICA’S LARGEST MILITARY MUSEUM DISAPPEARS "WHAT MUSEUM? WE KNOW NOTHING" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER Chairman Editorial Board, Veterans Today Months ago, our local Congressional office contacted me about helping locate missing historical artifacts that had been in America’s second largest military museum, here in Toledo, Ohio. Built in 1886, this grand structure, [...]
HOW CAN WE REMAIN SILENT? By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER One case stands out. In 2005, PFC Lavena Johnson, according to the military, committed suicide by shooting herself with her M -16 while serving in Iraq. There is not one word of truth to the Army’s story as thousands of women raped while serving their [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Shinseki Vows To Do Right By Those Who Served In Iraq, Afghanistan, Homeless Vets. 2. New Vet Centers To Be Located In Washington State, Utah. 3. VA Chooses Two Companies To Work On Pennsylvania Cemetery. 4. Vet Involved In Standoff With Police Unlikely To Be Charged. 5. Jindal Hands Out Louisiana Veterans [...]
Lockheed Martin MS2, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $25,104,813 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-6207) for Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-the-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) Hardware consisting of Virginia Class long lead material and economic order material. A-RCI is a sonar system upgrade that integrates and improves towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor [...]
Matt Letteman is now in the Air headed home to Missouri. He was release today from the VA Hospital DC. He was hospitalized from July 21 until today. He got a world class Compensation and Pension Exam and he got a very complete testing which added to his known medical problems. They were able to [...]
My beautiful farm in in the Northern California Delta. When I came home from Nashville at the end of 2004, I said ‘goodbye’ to Music Row where I had lived for 20 years and was dead set on retiring and becoming a farmer. I am now living in my dream, and thinking occasionally about moving [...]
VA Reburies “Buffalo Soldiers” in Santa Fe National Cemetery WASHINGTON – A ceremony memorializing 64 soldiers and their family members who protected southwestern New Mexico from Apache attacks in the mid-1800s was held July 28 by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Interior. The remains of the Fort Craig residents originally [...]
CONGRESS SHIRKS ITS RESPONSIBILITY, ALLOWS WHITE HOUSE TO MAKE WARS By Sherwood Ross, Staff Writer On occasion, critics of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have questioned, with good reason, whether the American war in Afghanistan has been carried far beyond what Congress authorized. This raises a fundamental question that has bedeviled the country since 1950. [...]
Secretary Shinseki Announces $8.7 Million Contracts in Philadelphia For New Washington Crossing National Cemetery WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki today announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has awarded two contracts totaling $8.7 million to prepare the new Washington Crossing National Cemetery near Philadelphia for its first burials. “Providing a national [...]
WASHINGTON – Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki today announced the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is awarding more than $898,000 to URS Group Inc., a St. Louis-based company, to design a gravesite expansion project at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. “Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is one of our busiest cemeteries,” Secretary [...]
VETERANS AND JEWS AT OPPOSITES? LOS ANGELES VETERANS "CONSERVANCY" MISLEADS MEMBERS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER photo: g duff/Cambridge, UK 2009 The first thing I told Rob Rosebrock when he approached Veterans Today for support was to turn to the Jewish war veterans and Jews in the local community for support. Half my familiy are [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. VA Urged To "Get Real" About New GI Bill Backlog. 2. Assistant VA Secretary On "Quest To Improve" Federal Hiring System. 3. Public Asked To Help Bring VA Hospital To South Jersey. I4. Little Money Handed Out By Massachusetts Vets Program. 5. Groundbreaking On New VA Clinic A "Proud Day" For Wagner, [...]
Science Application International Corp., Fairfield, N.J., is being awarded a maximum $250,000,000 fixed price with economic price adjustment, maintenance, repair and operations, prime vendor contract. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. The original proposal was web solicited with five responses. [...]
311th COSCOM MAY BE INVESTIGATED BY ARMY AND FBI FOR CORRUPTION ARMY UNIT WITH ENERGY UTILITY/WAXMAN TIES ATTACKS PROTESTING VETS By Gordon Duff and Robert Rosebrock A week ago, uniformed troops from the 311th COSCOM, a reserve non combat logistical command in Los Angeles assaulted protesting disabled veterans. This command, whose leaders may have financial ties to the local land seizure [...]
Sergio Arias’ Marine unit served in Iraq in 2003 He says he has post-traumatic stress disorder, became addicted to drugs Vietnam vets mentor other former service members in New Directions programs Number of homeless veterans of Afghanistan, Iraq is increasing By Paul Vercammen LOS ANGELES, California – When Sergio Arias returned to civilian life in Oxnard, [...]
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