In today’s New York Times we read that the Veterans Benefit Administration will soon get a new chief. Rear Admiral Patrick Dunne, USN (Ret.) is leaving the position. The story entitled Troubled V.A. Agency Will Get a New Chief is here. In this editorial, the New York Times explains President Obama’s unprecedented deference to the Chinese as a [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. With "Seven Touches" Program, VA Reaches Out To Guard Members. 2. VA Undersecretary For Benefits Dunne Will Resign. 3. General Tapped To Lead Probe Of Fort Hood Shootings Experienced PTSD After Serving In Iraq. 4. Marine, Family Seek Traumatic Injury Benefit For Severe Reaction To Vaccine. 5. VA Hospital Paving Job Given [...]
By James Dao The New York Times The official responsible for the problem-plagued disability compensation system at the Department of Veterans Affairs will resign early next year, the department announced Friday. The official, Under Secretary Patrick W. Dunne, has run the Veterans Benefits Administration since 2006, a period in which the agency has been swamped [...]
Des Moines, Iowa West-side woman earns national award Pocatello, Idaho Convoy of food sent to Pocatello Veterans Home Shreveport, Louisiana Dedication of homeless vets complex ahead Chicago, Illinois State gets $500,000 to help connect veterans with jobs Los Angeles, California First of 3 L.A.-area care facilities for veterans to open Related Posts:No Related Posts
One Billion Dollar Veteran Land Is Given for Free Related Posts:No Related Posts
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Durbin Amendment Would Establish Pilot Recruiting Program. 2. Sestak Proposes Increased Housing Assistance For Veterans. 3. In Unanimous Vote, Senate Passes Omnibus Veterans Bill. 4. GAO: Post-Deployment Questionnaires Missing. 5. VA Hospital Found To Have Committed Multiple Cancer Treatment Errors. 6. Dorn VAMC To Open New Clinic. 7. Loma Linda VA To Host Event [...]
No. 910-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE DTS Aviation Services, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, was awarded a $13,893,827 contract which will provide aircraft backshop maintenance, munitions and equipment support services for the Air Armament Center and for their command and control, communications, computers and intelligence systems testing for a 12 month period. At this time, $11,517,159 has been [...]
Comprehensive Study Will Help VA Provide High-Quality Care Health Editor Note: Will the results show a difference in the way female and male veterans experienced the Vietnam Conflict? Will this affect healthcare for women? Carol Ware Duff MSN, BA, RN RECENT VA NEWS RELEASEWASHINGTON (Nov. 19, 2009) -Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K.Shinseki announced the Department [...]
A battlefield in the courtroom Monopolizing America’s Voting System CIA detainees again an issue in Lithuania The Coal Industry’s $47 Million PR Spending Spree Senate bill would see Iraq contractors face justice in US courts Related Posts:No Related Posts
A few days ago, we at Veterans Today received this feedback and commentary sent in by from Paul Sullivan, Executive Director, Veterans for Common Sense (VCS). It was his message to the article author reporter Fred Kaplan at State highlighting the fact that Kaplan’s article and this Veterans Today post left out a very significant [...]
VETERANS TODAY ORGANIZIES "FACT BASED" ADVISORY GROUP TOP MILITARY AND ACADEMIC EXPERTS WEIGH IN ON AFGHANISTAN By Gordon Duff Senior Editor/Group Coordinator An informal study group composed of research specialists and former senior military and intelligence officials, diplomats and government officials from the US, Britain and Pakistan and other interested countries is examining our combined understanding [...]
Lawful Treason? By Jeff Gates STAFF WRITER/Editor Winning wars in the Information Age largely depends on winning the battle for public opinion. Thus the opinion-shaping role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) when it attacked a high profile California professor for his criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine. That ADL intimidation campaign successfully chilled debate [...]
In today’s New York Times we see many articles that show the effect of the devestating crash of the financial markets last Fall (2008) on American life. We cannot afford to spend money we do not have anymore. First up is this article entitled "Air Defense Push Inspired by 9/11 Gets a 2nd Look" in [...]
By Joe Conason Truthdig The loudest voices on the right never tire of telling us that they are the truest patriots. They claim to be the deepest believers in our system, the strongest defenders of our Constitution, the most upbeat, bold and courageous Americans anywhere. But now that the government is finally prepared to put [...]
ACLU MOVES TO STOP VA POLICE FROM VET ABUSE CONGRESSMAN FILNER DISAPPOINTS VETS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor This week, the ACLU informed Veterans Today that they will be representing Robert Rosebrock, a well know veterans advocate, who is, along with many Veterans groups including the American Legion and Military Order of Purple Heart, [...]
Dallas, Texas Military veterans gear up for hunt Eureka, California Help connect California’s returning vets Washington, DC Senate passes benefits for vets’ caregivers Salt Lake City, Utah Veteran honors veteran grandpa with flag Phoenix, Arizona Former Arizona veterans services head indicted Related Posts:No Related Posts
No. 907-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Valero Marketing & Supply Co., San Antonio, Texas is being awarded a maximum $118,035,840 fixed price with economic price adjustment, indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contract for aviation turbine fuel. Other location of performance is in Corpus Christi, Texas. Using service is Foreign Military Sales. The original proposal was web [...]
Data: 33 Deaths for Nov 1-18, 20009Age groups: 30-1;40-11;50-10;60-5;70-4 Military Service: USA-13;USN-6;USAR-2;USMC-5;USAF-7:NG-1;civilian 2;Active duty 2 Death data: hospital sudden -1 ,hospice 1; home unexpected 1; home 8; Hospital 6; motorcycle accident 1; ALS 1;MS 1;ALZ 1; Cancer unspecif 3, Pancreatic Cancer 2; Brain Cancer 1; Leukemia 1 Multi theaters: Vietnam and Gulf War 6; VN, [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Military Construction-VA Spending Bill Includes $3.3 Billion IT Budget. 2. Durbin: VA Rural Recruiting Measure Clears Senate. 3. "Ominous" Phone Message Tells Veterans About Education Claims Backlog. 4. Obama Chooses Petzel To Serve As VA’s Undersecretary For Health. 5. Subcommittee Approves Veterans Appeals Improvement And Modernization Act. 6. Concern Expressed About Cemetery’s Nondenominational [...]
GRAFT, CORRUPTION AND CHEAP POLITICS IN AMERICA WINNING THE WAR FOR THE TALIBAN By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Even if analysts existed who understood Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and the other countries of this region, their history, their people and why war and threat of war is a way of life, even if America’s [...]
The $2.5 trillion global oil scam Two Good Ideas for Banking Reform Banking lobby lament: Put down your pitchforks Navigator involved in nuke-powered US sub crash was listening to iPod Rep. John Culberson Gushes Over Hate Radio’s Michael Savage: ‘We Need You’ Related Posts:No Related Posts
By James Dao The New York Times A program intended to help disabled veterans win government business awarded at least $100 million in contracts to firms that were either ineligible or committed fraud to obtain the work, a federal review has found. In one case, a Nevada firm won a $7.5 million contract from the [...]
Alexandria, Virginia Bricks Honor Veterans Mansfield, Ohio Mansfield VA clinic to expand in 2010 Frederick, Maryland Morale down among soldiers in Afghanistan Madison, Wisconsin Veterans home leader reinstated after being fired Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Veterans Assistance Project offers aid in N.J. Related Posts:No Related Posts
Today’s New York Times shows all of us a breathtaking view of how the business segments in modern American society try as hard as possible to squeeze the largest amounts of profit out of situations where they are held barely accountable for their actions by the government. They want something for nothing. They balk at [...]
The following essay was forwarded to us from Veterans for Common Sense (VCS), and we wanted to share the red flags highlighted by a military spouse stationed at Fort Hood when the recent shooting incident occurred. All credit and copyright for the story goes to Carissa Picard and VCS, so any use or reprint [...]
No. 902-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY Bechtel Plant Machinery, Inc., Monroeville, Pa., is being awarded a $248,787,610 modification to previously awarded contract (00024-07-C-2100) for naval nuclear propulsion components. Work will be performed in Monroeville, Pa. (95 percent), and Schenectady, N.Y. (five percent). Contract funds in the amount of $326,653 will expire at the end of the current fiscal [...]
by Tom Barnes, Staff Writer This week we learned that President Obama is searching for an ‘endgame’ in Afghanistan prior to deciding on troop committments. It is a good idea, eight years late, but a good idea nonetheless! What a mess! In a related story "Afghan minister accused of taking bribe", we find that American military [...]
The Controversy continues IS THE VA Using the Best Test? Gulf War Veterans 1990-91 Demand Real Diagnostic Testing and Action NOW I fully anticipate an attack but this article that follows is well written and addresses one issue. That issue is Science being corrupted and how it impacts veterans. The veterans of Gulf War 1990-91 [...]
Join the Veterans’ RevolutionSunday, December 6th, 1:00 – 4:00pmWe Need Your Help to Save Our Land At the N/E Corner Of San Vicente Blvd. and Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA (street parking is available on the west side of Wilshire) For more information contact:Bob Rosebrock at 310-472-2717Steve Crandall at 805-388-1542 121 years ago, on [...]
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