HOW AMERICA CAN SEE THE DESTRUCTION OF IT’S MOST TRUSTED ALLY? By Sohail Parwaz During last year for quite some time the talk was in the air that American President Barrack Hussein Obama was resolute to send some more troops to Afghanistan. The presidential orders were issued, as soon as the New Year arrived and [...]
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Disability Evaluation System To Be Implemented At Six New Locations. 2. Suicides In US Army Expected To Reach New High. 3. Coburn Offers Amendment To Omnibus Veterans Healthcare Bill. 4. Phoenix VA Serving More Veterans. 5. Report: Over $98 Billion Wasted By Government Agencies, Including VA. 6. VA, US Olympic Committee To Expand [...]
By Tom Vanden Brook, Ken Dilanian and Ray Locker, USA Today Six months after Marine Lt. Gen. Gary McKissock retired in 2002, he did what many other ex-military leaders do: He joined the board of directors of a defense contractor, a company doing business with his former service. McKissock also had a second job. The [...]
Politics Daily has an interesting article posted today written by Lawrence J. Haas concerning Wafa Sultan, a Muslim-American female psychiatrist on the nature of Islam. Since it is apparently true that Obama is going to widen the war in Afghanistan within weeks, and since we are presently engaged in 2 1/2 wars in western Asia now among [...]
BEIJING — President Obama said Wednesday he is “very close to a decision” on a troop increase for the war in Afghanistan, and will make his case to the American people for his Afghan strategy in the next “several weeks.” “I am very confident that when I announce the decision, the American people will have [...]
In today’s New York Times we learn that so far this year 14,700 Americans have applied for amnesty under an I.R.S. program. They are not prosecuted for tax evasion if they come forward acknowledging that they have offshore secret bank accounts set up by foreign banks in order for them to evade American taxes. The [...]
The Drug Industry Cashes In Gates Bars Torture Photos’ Release The Weekly Standard’s smears indict only itself As Karzai starts new term, doubts grow that he’ll finish Majority in US now see Afghan war as not worth fighting Related Posts:No Related Posts
THE US PLAYING MONGOL OF PRESENT TIMES By Tarik Jan The tragic moments in history have their own ineluctable fate, for in the creation of those moments there are years of self-satisfied attitudes that smothers a people’s ability to perceive threats. In the backdrop are also parochial concerns that eventually condition their psyche, causing disrespect [...]
Buffalo, New York Combat veterans differ on war’s worth Tampa, Florida Veterans Memorial Park marks expansion Washington, DC Warner Amends Veterans Bill for Women Braintree, Massachusetts Camp Lejeune vets, check toxic clues North Platte, Nebraska Vets Affairs clinic to hold open house today Related Posts:No Related Posts
We have insanity and death breaking out all over the country. It is violent, unreasoning, crazy homicidal violence that has a tendency to feed off of other crazy violence. It might be something like the New York City Police Department has always claimed…that murders break out during a full moon. Could the violence at Fort Hood [...]
The Problem with NAS/IOM Reviews of Gulf War Illness Spent the day deep in research and as we all know there is a problem in River City this time it is the Potomac River ie DC. Over and over again Gulf War Veterans have identified a central problem with the NAS/IOM studies that is Huge [...]
THE WAR WITHIN – Infighting among Veterans is counterproductive David K. Winnett, Jr.for Veterans Today There are no greater patriots than our Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, and Coastguardsmen. Collectively, the members of America’s Armed Forces represent the most formidable foe that any potential enemy could possibly imagine. They are better educated, better trained, and better [...]
Health Conditions of Gulf War Veterans 1990-91 is Incomplete Sharing an informative article that appears below. My comment is quite short and concise! VA and DOD must release the data on Diagnosed illnesses of the Gulf War 1990-91! We need to know specifics first off: How many Cancers of each specific type and the number expected [...]
No. 900-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors, Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $41,100,000 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5102) for combat systems engineering (CSE) and installation and test aboard KDX-III Ship 2 to support Republic of Korea (ROK) Foreign Military Sales. ROK competitively selected the U.S. Navy/Lockheed Martin Aegis Combat System (ACS) [...]
Innocents killed are brushed aside as colaterals: A cruelty of worst orderBy Ghazala Awan The term ‘terrorism’ refers to a violent action, committed for political reasons in order to spread panics and terror. Terrorism therefore is a form of unconventional warfare that seeks to affect masses. The most relevant issue for nowadays is international terrorism [...]
By Donna Teresa The Monterey Herald Every holiday season it seems the hearts grow ever bigger and the generosity is stronger, and that is a great feeling. Economically, I know it is tough for so many people; however, I hope you hold our men and women in uniform of past and present ever closer in [...]
DEALING WITH BEHAVIORS SUCH AS STUBBORNNESS AND UNCOOPERATIVENESS CAREGIVER TIPS FOR THOSE WITH DEMENTIAS/ALZHEIMER’S by Carol Ware Duff MSN, BS, RN The person with dementia may be stubborn or uncooperative because of changes in the brain and an inability to control behaviors. Reasons for Stubbornness and Uncooperativeness: Stubbornness can be at least partly caused by [...]
Mother Refuses Deployment McChrystal In Fantasyland About Afghanistan California Dems to Obama: Get Out of Afghanistan New Baghdad Airport Security Contractor Has Major Bagagge Conservatives: Detainees Will Be OK In IL Prison, Warn GOP Of ‘Scaremongering’ Related Posts:No Related Posts
If you received anything but an "Honorable" Discharge, this may affect your VA Benefits. Here’s how you can apply for consideration in having your discharge upgraded: Here’s How: Obtain a copy of DD Form 293, "Application for the Review of Discharge or Dismissal from the Armed Forces of the United States." Complete personal information in [...]
James Vega has a piece in the Democratic Strategist arguing in essence: If there is an escalation in Afghanistan—progressives, and those just plain not wanting to see our troops kill and be killed should all be happy because President Obama has performed as though we do not live in a military junta. “Obama’s strategic review [...]
By Walter Pincus The Washington Post Indictment against Public Warehousing follows multiyear probe A major Kuwait-based military contractor was indicted Monday for allegedly defrauding the U.S. government by submitting inflated bills and false claims under contracts through which it has supplied $8.5 billion in food and other products to the American military in Iraq, Kuwait [...]
Palo Alto, California Veterans on the Farm Louisville, Kentucky City backs downtown VA hospital Washington, DC Managers pressured to hire more vets Bella Vista, Arkansas American Legion Holds First Town-Hall Lake Stevens, Washington Streamlined Disability Benefits Program to Fort Lewis Related Posts:No Related Posts
What’s Inside Today’s Local News for Veterans 1. Disability Evaluation System Pilot Program To Be Expanded. 2. Shinseki Planning To Implement Report’s VA-Med School Recommendations. 3. Advocate Stresses Importance Of Shinseki’s Vow On Veteran Homelessness. 4. Columnist Urges Readers To Visit A VA Hospital. 5. Former VA Nurse Cared For Wounded In Fort Hood Shooting. 6. Dorn VAMC, Other VA Hospitals, [...]
INDIA’S FAILURES ARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF HER NEIGHBOURSBy Sajjad Shaukat Instead of addressing the root causes of the Maoist uprising, Indian government has started a blame game against China, alleging for supplying arms to these insurgents. Recently, Home Secretary of the Indian Union, G.K. Pillai accused that China was “a big supplier of small arms [...]
According to the Associated Press this morning, a 21 year old soldier mom refuses deployment to Afghanistan. There was no one to take care of her infant. She has been arrested and confined to base pending investigation. That story is here. According to the Washington Post the Army is forming a panel under the direction [...]
BRITISH PM CALLS FOR LONDON NATO SUMMIT ON AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL By Dr. Richard North UK CORRESPONDENT, VETERANS TODAY … in a move designed to address public fears that allied troops could become bogged down in Afghanistan for years to come," reports The Daily Telegraph (and others), Gordon Brown has announced that he plans to hold [...]
In today’s late edition of the Washington Post we find that American hunger is on a steep incline up. Almost 49 million Americans do not have access to adequate amounts of food now. And we are spending money waging wars for fat cat arms dealers, mega-millionaires in the energy cartels and emerging market speculators? You [...]
God, the Army, and PTSDIs religion an obstacle to treatment? by Tara McKelvey When Roger Benimoff arrived at the psychiatric building of the Coatesville, Pennsylvania veterans’ hospital, he was greeted by a message carved into a nearby tree stump: “Welcome Home.” It was a reminder that things had not turned out as he had expected. In [...]
No. 891-09——————————————————————————–CONTRACTS: NAVY Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding, Inc., Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $96,682,393 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering, technical, design, configuration management, integrated logistics support, database management, research and development, modernization, trade, and industrial support for Los Angeles, Seawolf, Virginia, Ohio SSBN, and Ohio SSGN Class submarines, special mission submersible interfaces, submarine support facilities, [...]
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