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VA Budget Deals With Homelessness and Jobs

February 13, 2012 (Military.com) – The Department of Veterans Affairs sent Congress a proposed budget of $140 billion for fiscal 2013 on Monday, which includes a 33 percent increase in funding to tackle homelessness and a $1 billion request for … Continue reading

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Military Aims to Keep Psych Care With Veterans

February 12, 2012 (Boston Herald) – Recruiters have launched a campaign to enlist returning soldiers for a new call of duty: psychologist. Student veterans at the Hub-based Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology received a $125,000 state grant this year to … Continue reading

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Wounded Veterans Build New Skills to Keep Serving

February 11, 2012 (Chicago Tribune) – Sergeant Michael Kidd considered cyberspace a hobby before he joined the Marines in 2003, but he hopes to make it his new battlefield after suffering debilitating injuries in Iraq. At the naval air station … Continue reading

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Iraq War’s legacy: One Marine’s five-year battle with PTSD

January 12, 2012 (MSNBC) – After serving four years as a Marine including two deployments to Iraq, Brian Scott Ostrom, now 27, returned home to the U.S. in 2007 with a severe case of post-traumatic stress disorder. “The most important … Continue reading

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VA Violates Federal Law by Illegally Outsourcing Government Jobs, says AFGE

February 8, 2012 (PR Newswire) – Last November President Obama signed into law the “Vow to Hire Heroes Act” designed to increase employment opportunities for America’s veterans. But a key provision in the act creating an expedited process for hiring … Continue reading

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