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• Chairman Filner, Professor Bilmes, and American Legion: Reform Broken VA Claims System Now

  Created: 2009-08-04 14:33:41 Author: Ken Olsen

  August 1, 2009 - Leroy Comer's 21-year battle with the VA disability-claims system comes down to about $30,000 in benefits - less than $1,500 for each year of denial, delay, appeal and remand.  Comer wasn't after money when he filed his first claim ...

• Scores of Guantanamo Cases are Ensnared in a Legal Limbo

  Created: 2009-08-03 13:58:16 Author: Del Quentin Wilber

  August 1, 2009 - In the 13 months since the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision granting detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their confinements before federal judges, most prisoners still have no...

• New York Times: Army Suicides Rise to Highest Level Since Record-Keeping Began 30 Years Ago

  Created: 2009-08-03 13:53:57 Author: Erica Goode

  After Combat, Victims of an Inner War: Four Suicides in National Guard Unit with 175 Soldiers

  August 1, 2009 - Sgt. Jacob Blaylock flipped on the video camera he had set up in a trailer at the Tallil military base, southeast ...

• Chairman Filner: VA Claims Process Needs Radical Changes (VCS Agrees)

  Created: 2009-08-03 13:47:03 Author: Rick Maze

  August 1, 2009 - Improving the veterans' claims process will require more than just hiring more staff, the House Veterans' Affairs Committee chairman said Friday. ...

• IOM Scientists: VA Lags on Agent Orange Research

  Created: 2009-08-03 13:45:06 Author: Kelly Kennedy

  July 31, 2009 - Even as an Institute of Medicine report expanded a list of health issues possibly linked to the defoliant Agent Orange, researchers lamented that the Department of Veterans Affairs had taken little action on previous recommendations o...

• Op-Ed 'Christians' Wink at Torture

  Created: 2009-08-03 13:43:17 Author: Ray McGovern

  August 1, 2009 - Anyone harboring doubts that the institutional Church is riding shotgun for the system, even regarding heinous sin like torture, should be chastened by the results of a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. ...

• July 2009 - U.S. Troops Killed in Deadliest Month in Afghan War

  Created: 2009-08-03 13:39:06 Author: Paul Tait

  July 31, 2009, Kabul - A U.S. service member was killed as the deadliest month for foreign troops in the Afghanistan war drew to a close, the U.S. military said on Friday, with commanders vowing to continue the fight despite the toll. ...

• U.S. Pilot’s Remains Found in Iraq After 18 Years

  Created: 2009-08-03 13:37:20 Author: Thom Shanker

  August 2, 2009 - Navy officials announced early Sunday that Marines in the western Iraqi province of Anbar had found remains that have been positively identified as those of an American fighter pilot shot down in the opening hours of the first Persi...

• Limited Scope of Research Prevents Gulf War Vets From Getting Benefit of the Doubt

  Created: 2009-07-31 19:00:27 Author: Imperial Valley News

  July 31, 2009 - Washington, DC - Yesterday, the House Veterans' Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, led by Chairman Harry Mitchell (D-AZ), conducted a hearing to analyze and evaluate the scientific information on Gulf War Illness Resea...

• Senate DPC to Examine Army's Response to Exposure of Troops in Iraq to Deadly Chemical

  Created: 2009-07-31 18:57:25 Author: US Senate Documents

  July 31, 2009 - The U.S. Senate Democratic Policy Committee will conduct a congressional oversight hearing, Monday, August 3, to examine whether the U.S. Army responded appropriately to the exposure of hundreds of U.S. troops to a deadly carcinogen a...

• Research Links Toxic Exposures with Illnesses, According to Scientists' Congressional Testimony

  Created: 2009-07-31 18:51:55 Author: Roberta F. White, Ph.D.

  July 30, 2009 - Good morning, Chairman Mitchell, Ranking Member Roe, and Members of the Committee.  This morning I will talk about my experience with Gulf War veterans over the last 16 years and their health problems. I will speak from a research p...

• U.S. Adviser’s Blunt Memo on Iraq: Time ‘to Go Home’

  Created: 2009-07-31 14:38:29 Author: Michael R. Gordon

  July 30, 2009 - A senior American military adviser in Baghdad has concluded in an unusually blunt memo that Iraqi forces suffer from entrenched deficiencies but are now able to protect the Iraqi government, and that it is time "for the U.S. to declar...

• Colonel: No Point in Lingering in Iraq

  Created: 2009-07-31 14:35:08 Author: Robert Burns

  July 30, 2009 - Army adviser to the Iraqi military command in Baghdad argues in an internal memo that the U.S. should "declare victory and go home" next year, 16 months ahead of schedule. ...

• Army Report Warned of Burn-Pit Effects

  Created: 2009-07-31 14:28:58 Author: Kelly Kennedy

  July 30, 2009 - Seven months before Defense Department officials said there were no known long-term health effects due to exposure to open-air burn-pit smoke, Army researchers sent out a report on the health effects associated with particulate matter...

• E-Mails Show Larger White House Role in Prosecutor Firings

  Created: 2009-07-31 14:27:05 Author: Carrie Johnson

  July 31, 2009 - Political adviser Karl Rove and other high-ranking figures in the Bush White House played a greater role than previously understood in the firing of federal prosecutors almost three years ago, according to e-mails obtained by The Wash...

• Mental Health in the Military

  Created: 2009-07-31 14:24:26 Author: Chuck Crumbo

  July 31, 2009 - Aiming to stem a rising suicide rate among troops, the Army's top general said Thursday during a visit to Fort Jackson that the service will launch a training program in October to teach soldiers how to better handle combat stress. ...

• Editorial Column: Montana Plan May Save More Soldiers' Lives

  Created: 2009-07-31 14:20:10 Author: Billings Gazette

  July 29, 2009 - One of the most common, devastating injuries U.S. military personnel have suffered in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally would get the priority it deserves - if Congress and President Obama adopt a Montana plan for better screening...

• GMU Event to Mark Webb's Post-9/11 GI Bill

  Created: 2009-07-31 14:12:58 Author: Andrew Cain

  July 31, 2009 - President Barack Obama will join Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., former Sen. John W. Warner and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki on Monday at George Mason University to mark the implementation of Webb's Post-9/11 GI Bill. ...

• UN: Afghan Civilian Deaths Rise by 24 Percent

  Created: 2009-07-31 14:07:20 Author: Associated Press

  July 31, 2009, Geneva - The United Nations said Friday the number of civilians killed in conflict in Afghanistan has jumped 24 percent so far this year, with bombings by insurgent and airstrikes by international forces the biggest single killers. ...

• VCS Supports Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell - Letter from Vote Vets

  Created: 2009-07-31 13:56:35 Author: Kirsten Gillibrand

  July 30, 2009 - The military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is an unjust, outdated, and harmful rule that violates the civil rights of some of our bravest, most heroic men and women. ...