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Returning Women Veterans Face Challenges in a System Designed for Men
Returning women veterans face challenges in a system designed for men March 19, 2012 (PRI) – Almost eight percent of U.S. veterans are women, but the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is geared primarily toward men. That’s meant a lot … Continue reading
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Lautenberg Intros Bipartisan Veterans’ Education Bill
March 20, 2012 (NJToday) – U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and five of his Senate colleagues have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at providing every veteran who receives educational assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with the counseling … Continue reading
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Army: PTSD treatable; some diagnosed return to war
It is still not known if the soldier accused of killing 17 Afghans was ever diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder – but even if he had been, that alone would not have prevented him from being sent back to war. … Continue reading
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Important Claims Resources
We wanted to take a moment to share important information about claims applications. There are two relatively new options available. VA Releases Disability Benefits Questionnaires With Disability Benefits Questionnaires (DBQs) Veterans now have more control over the disability claims process. … Continue reading
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Researchers Wrestle with How Many Deployments are Too Many
Big take away over 100,000 have deployed 3 times or more. Without incident. According to our statistics about half went at least twice. ————————————— By Gregg Zoroya, USA TODAY After nearly 11 years of war and hundreds of millions of … Continue reading
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Veteran Unemployment: Jobless Rate Drops
Good news on veterans employment. The rate for veterans under 25 is still far and away above the national average. It is great to see the policies promoted by federal leadership aimed at promoting the hiring of veterans having an … Continue reading
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Army reviewing traumatic stress diagnostic practices
From Reuters By David Alexander WASHINGTON | Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:18am EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Army has started a system-wide review to ensure its mental healthcare facilities are not engaging in the “unacceptable” practice of considering treatment costs … Continue reading
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P.T.S.D. Can Yield Positive, Yet Sometimes Deadly, Results
By JIM RENDON From http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/p-t-s-d-can-yield-positive-yet-sometimes-deadly-results/ Just as my story about the Army’s program designed to help boost resilience in soldiers was approaching its final edit for The Times Magazine, news broke of the killing of 16 Afghan civilians by an … Continue reading
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Sgt. Robert Bales-PTSD Link at Odds With Research
From KABC Talk Radio US Army(NEW YORK) — When Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was arrested last week for allegedly killing 16 men, women and children in Kandahar, Afghanistan, speculation swirled that post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, had caused … Continue reading
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