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No. 831-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY General Dynamics, Electric Boat Corp., Groton, Conn., is being awarded a $24,999,954 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to provide non-nuclear maintenance and repair support at the Naval Submarine Support Facility, Naval Submarine Base. Under the terms of the contract, Electric Boat will continue to provide services required to support planned and emergent non-nuclear maintenance [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Business | Read More »
GOOD ACTOR BUT 3RD RATE CONSPIRACY WINGNUT By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Lord only know, I like Chuck Norris, his films, his TV shows and even his hokey infomercials. As one of the real people Norris pretends to be in his movies, he can be inspiring, if not massively overstated. As a Vietnam War [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
By Golnar Motevalli Reuters BARCHA, Afghanistan (Reuters) – U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Tiffany Jones chews tobacco, spitting the juice into the Afghan desert as she talks, and wears her M-16 automatic rifle slung across her chest just like her male colleagues. Jones wanted to be a sniper but, like many women on active service in [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Military | Read More »
by Karen St. John, Staff Writer Like many of us, the Vietnam War became teenager Marc Phillip Yablonka’s war. The son of a holocaust survivor and U.S. WW II veteran, Yablonka watched as the war dragged on and Saigon fell in 1975. For decades falling the collapse, a steady stream of Vietnam refugees poured [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Book Reviews,Veterans Affairs,Vietnam War | Read More »
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI): JUST THE FACTS By Carol Ware Duff MSN, BA, RN Injuries to the brain may be more common than you know. With exposure to blasts, the military is a prime target for such an injury. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an acquired injury to the brain by an abrupt trauma. In [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Daniel Ellsberg is the legendary US military analyst employed by the RAND Corp who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when, risking his liberty and defying the government, he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to the New York Times and 17 other newspapers. The Pentagon Papers reveals the government lied to our [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
Careful Work: Veteran Fred L. Stanley sews medical labels at the Veterans Administration on Wilshire Boulevard Thursday afternoon. photo by Brandon Wise. By Kevin Herrera Santa Monica Daily Press WESTWOOD — When Vietnam veteran Fred L. Stanley visits the 99 Cent Store, he does with pride for he carries with him a reusable grocery bag. [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Blowback says Juan Cole – Oct. 25, 2009 | Two massive blasts shook central Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 155 people, including 30 children and wounding 500, and destroying three government ministry buildings, according to the Times of London’s Oliver August reporting from Baghdad. (The total has now been revised upward.) August notes that the likely [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Iraq War | Read More »
Chopper crashes killed 14 Americans in Afghanistan on Monday, ratcheting up pressure on President Obama to decide on a surge. Leslie H. Gelb reports Obama’s ready to act—but not even his advisers know what he’ll do. Nor do the American people, the back-seat drivers of American policy. Perhaps Obama will decide to escalate but forgo tax [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
By Sajjad Shaukat Since October 17, this year when Pakistan’s armed forces started the military operation, “Rah-i-Nijat” (Path to Deliverance), they have been rapidly achieving successes by destroying the strongholds of the Waziristan-based militants. In this regard, the Chief of the Inter-Services Public Relations, Maj-Gen. Athar Abbas indicated that within a few days, at least [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
- Growing evidence of extremists in U.S. military, photo of active duty Oath Keeper in Mosul, Iraq -by Rob Waters and the Southern Poverty Law Center on AlterNet - Oath Keepers, the militia/“Patriot” extremist group made up of law enforcement officers, military personnel and veterans, has posted a photo on its site showing (it says) “an active duty Oath [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Legislation | Read More »
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Shinseki Expands Agent Orange Illnesses List. 2. Shinseki Asked To Eliminate PTSD Benefits Requirement. 3. Older Veterans File Most Claims. 4. Technological Advances Allowing Amputees To Continue Pre-Injury Pursuits. 5. US Military "Focusing On Epilepsy." 6. Vet Struggling With PTSD At Risk On Another Front. 7. Despite VA Successes, Electronic Health Records Can Have [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Top 10 | Read More »
Las Vegas, Nevada New law serves veterans Austin, Texas Delayed benefits frustrate veterans Los Angeles, California South Bay campus serves veterans Billings, Montana Veterans honor Northern Cheyenne warriors Atlantic City, New Jersey Waging a single-handed fight on behalf of veterans Related Posts:No Related Posts
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Veteran Service Organizations | Read More »
By Sherwood Ross /Staff Writer Veterans Today In order to convert the sleepy, Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia into a dominating military base, the U.S. forcibly transported its 2,000 Chagossian inhabitants into exile and gassed their dogs. By banning journalists from the area, the U.S. Navy was able to perpetrate this with virtually no [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
In today’s New York Times there is an editorial pounding the Obama Administration, and rightly so, for continuing the Bush Era cover-up policy on CIA and American military torture overseas. That story is here. The editors of the Times are correct. We either have a transparent, democratic government based on law and justice or we do [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
The BBC reports today that a sunken Royal Navy submarine lost in World War I has been found on the bottom of the ocean floor in the Baltic Sea near the coast of Estonia. The sub went down with all hands (31 souls on board) in 1916 during a combat operation. The story is here. [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Of Interest | Read More »
GULF WAR ILLNESS RESEARCH REPORT FROM FRANCE Among several factors, implication of pyridostigmine (PB) in late cognitive dysfunction is highly likely. As a hypothesis to explain these behavioural disorders is a potentiation of the operational stress effects by pyridostigmine. We have previously described that repeated stress combined to pyridostigmine treatment induces learning dysfunction linked to [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Gregg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung of the Washington Post have posted an article in that paper today explaining that in the past month the White House had ordered that an Afghan War war-game be played out with various troop level scenarios in place. Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, played in the game. Here [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
by Nick Mottern – When you lace up your boots and head for the plane that will carry you to Afghanistan, you will be joining Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, ExxonMobil chief Rex Tillerson and Gurbangulu Berdimuhamedov in what has been described in the US Congress as "the new great game". It is a [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
The Associated Press is running a story about Rush Limbaugh making a major on-air mistake on Friday night concerning the President and then refusing to apologize once he realized he was wrong. Rush ranks up there in status with Daffy Duck and Alfred E. Newman relative to having his finger on the very pulse of mainstream [...]
October 26th, 2009 | Posted in Arts & Entertainment | Read More »
MILLBURY — The cause of an Oct. 16 fire that destroyed a local police officer’s home is under investigation by the state fire marshal’s office, although the blaze is not thought to be of suspicious origin. Meanwhile, the Millbury Police Association is holding a fundraiser to help defray the cost of replacing Officer Robert J. [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Gulf War Syndrome: Killing Our Own After the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of U.S. veterans suffered toxic reactions, neurological damage, and rare cancers due to exposure to 2,4,5,-D and 2,4,5-T dioxin that was used in the form of the defoliant Agent Orange. Unfortunately, the U.S. military denied the problem and failed to heed any [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Just an update. WE a few Desert Storm and Vietnam veterans did not just ignore a comment to a posted story but did all they could to get in touch. SPC Dennis we hope and pray you are okay and will contact us DSNurse1@yahoo.com. It was one of those in the middle of the [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Just a nice story for the day about our flight attendants that care for the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines and ideas that need to move forward! I have transfered the story found online below. And wanted to Thank all those unsung citizens that do care for the troops and veterans. These people need to [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Health | Read More »
Joel McNally sets the record straight in the Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) on the segment of America who oppose President Obama in anything, the anti-American GOP. Bitter does not comprise all Republicans. I know plenty of Republicans and few fit this description. But as McNally points out, "The angry opposition of Republicans to President Obama now has [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Heroes | Read More »
By Sherwood Ross / Staff Writer Veterans Today The Pentagon has paid anti-war activist Noam Chomsky the highest honor any totalitarian entity can bestow upon an author: they’ve banned his book “Interventions” at Guantanamo Bay prison. They won’t say precisely why they “honored” Chomsky, but Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Brook DeWalt told the Miami Herald [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Politics | Read More »
Why spare words? The Pentagon will lie for more war in Afghanistan, a policy being deliberated as we read. As veterans, speak the truth or you will make one hell of a lot of new victims. Plenty of places to wage war over and over, if you want it. Plenty of militarists to cheer on the politicians, though the consequences to [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
What a day for tragedy and contemplation today is! First up we have a blast in Baghdad that has killed 100 people outright, left at least another 500 maimed or wounded and put into serious question whether or not President Maliki of Iraq can satisfactorily govern or provide security for the Iraqi people. The story [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in 9/11 | Read More »
Illustration: "Junta" by Jacques Moitoret By Jeff Huber at-Largely Defense Secretary Robert Gates has supposedly cautioned his generals against publicly challenging the White House, but it looks like Stanley McChrystal didn’t get the memo. McChrystal’s unrestricted information warfare against President Obama continues. The rift between the Pentagon and the administration has grown so wide it [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in AfPak | Read More »
By ROBERT L. HANAFIN, Major, USAF-Retired We at Veterans Today ask our readers to assist the Pentagon in getting the word out to those who just may qualify for compensation for having been involuntarily STOP LOSSED. Though first informed about how Airmen may benefit, we took the time to look up links for how Army [...]
October 25th, 2009 | Posted in Benefits | Read More »
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