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| VCS Adds "VCS on TV" News Clips to Web Site |
Television News Coverage of VCS Advocacy VCS now posts links to television news broadcasts featuring Veterans for Common Sense and our highly successful advocacy efforts on issues you care about. |
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| Disabled Iraq War Veteran with Service Dog Beaten by McDonalds Employee |
October 30, 2009, Brooklyn, New York (Courthouse News Service) - A disabled Army captain who was wounded in Iraq claims McDonald's employees beat him with garbage can lids after he brought his service dog to the restaurant. Luis Montalvan says the attack came as he was photographing the restaurant after he repeatedly complained about the treatment he received there. |
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| Deployment at All Costs: Military Arrests Mom, Sends Child to Protective Serivces |
Soldier mom refuses deployment to care for baby November 16, 2009, Savannah, Georgia (Associated Press) – An Army cook and single mom may face criminal charges after she skipped her deployment flight to Afghanistan because, she said, no one was available to care for her infant son while she was overseas. |
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| Fort Hood Fallout: Camp Lejeune Whistle-Blower Fired |
A psychiatrist who tried to prevent Fort Hood-style violence among Marines about to "lose it" instead loses his job November 16, 2009 (Salon) - Last April, two Marines at Camp Lejeune predicted to a psychiatrist that some Marine back from war was going to "lose it." Concerned, the psychiatrist asked what that meant. One of the Marines responded, "One of these guys is liable to come back with a loaded weapon and open fire." |
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| New York Times Profiles VA and Secretary Shinseki |
No Longer a Soldier, Shinseki Has a New Mission November 11, 2009 (New York Times) - It was a sad homecoming of sorts. On Tuesday, Eric Shinseki, the secretary of veterans affairs, returned to Fort Hood, Tex., where he was a division commander in the mid-1990s, to pay tribute to two veterans affairs employees who died in the shootings there last week. |
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U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan Region at 738
Written by The Associated Press
Friday, 04 September 2009 09:24
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September 3, 2009 - As of Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009, at least 738 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department. The department last updated its figures Thursday at 10 a.m. EDT.
Of those, the military reports 562 were killed by hostile action. Outside the Afghan region, the Defense Department reports 69 more members of the U.S. military died in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Of those, three were the result of hostile action. The military lists these other locations as Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba; Djibouti; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Jordan; Kenya; Kyrgyzstan; Philippines; Seychelles; Sudan; Tajikistan; Turkey; and Yemen. There were also four CIA officer deaths and one military civilian death. ___ The latest deaths reported by the military: _ Two soldiers died Thursday from a bomb blast while on patrol in southern Afghanistan. ___ The latest identifications reported by the military: _ No new identifications reported.
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