Yearly Archives: 2004

Retention Desperation: Marines Offer $30,000 Re-Enlistment Bonuses

Posted on November 27, 2004 by Team VCS

Marines Offered Reenlistment Bonuses Personnel with combat experience and training can get up to $30,000. The goal is for them to keep current jobs or shift to other vital posts. By Tony PerryTimes Staff WriterNovember 26, 2004 CAMP PENDLETON, California … Continue reading →

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Department of Homeland Security wants our kids to carry identity papers

Posted on November 27, 2004 by Team VCS

Homeland Security’s Request For Student Data Stirs Concern   By ALONSO SOTO and ROBERT BLOCK Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNALNovember 24, 2004; Page A4   WASHINGTON — A Homeland Security Department campaign to make schoolchildren better prepared for terrorist attacks is raising … Continue reading →

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Report: 20,802 U.S. troops treated at Landstuhl from Iraq or Afghanistan

Posted on November 25, 2004 by Team VCS

VA chief vows to work for the wounded LANDSTUHL, Germany — Emerging from a meeting with injured troops at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ top official vowed Monday to work for the timely delivery of … Continue reading →

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Army National Guard Fails Short of Recruiting Goal by 30 Percent

Posted on November 25, 2004 by Team VCS

Army National Guard misses recruiting goal  By Dave Moniz, USA TODAYNovember 24, 2004 WASHINGTON — The Army National Guard has fallen significantly behind its recruiting goal one month into the military’s new fiscal year, continuing a downward slide that began in … Continue reading →

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Thousands of Reservists Face Back Door Draft

Posted on November 25, 2004 by Team VCS

MANY RESERVISTS FEELING A ‘DRAFT’ By WILLIAM BUNCHbunchw@phillynews.com GENNARO PELLEGRINI JR., a 31-year-old Philadelphia police officer, was playing Sony Playstation video games with a nephew one night last April when a single phone call turned his world upside down. He … Continue reading →

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Medics Testify to Fallujah’s Horrors

Posted on November 24, 2004 by Team VCS

Medics Testify to Fallujah’s Horrors Navy Corpsmen Treated Unusually Devastating Injuries at Field Hospital By Jackie SpinnerWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, November 24, 2004; Page A15 FALLUJAH, Iraq — The first time Jose Ramirez saw a human body ripped apart by … Continue reading →

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Federal Judge Blocks Vote Counting in Ohio

Posted on November 24, 2004 by Team VCS

Recount Can Wait, Federal Judge RulesFrom Times Wire ReportsNovember 24, 2004 A federal judge in Toledo denied a request by third-party presidential candidates who wanted to force a recount of Ohio ballots before the official count was finished. Judge James … Continue reading →

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Brutal Reality of War: Dead-Check in Falluja

Posted on November 24, 2004 by Team VCS

Embedded with the Marines in Iraq Dead-Check in Falluja by Evan Wright, Village VoiceNovember 24 – 30, 2004 On April 9, 2003, the day the statue of Saddam Hussein was being toppled in Baghdad, symbolizing the promised liberation of Iraq, … Continue reading →

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) to Investigate 2004 Election Irregularities

Posted on November 23, 2004 by Team VCS

Government Accountability Office to Conduct Investigation of 2004 Election Irregularities WASHINGTON — November 23 — Reps. John Conyers, Jr., Jerrold Nadler, Robert Wexler, Robert Scott, and Rush Holt announced today that, in response to their November 5 and 8 letters … Continue reading →

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PTSD and my Iraq Homecoming

Posted on November 23, 2004 by Team VCS

Nightmare #1 I am in command of a four-vehicle convoy in Iraq.  We are skirting the edge of a town on our way back to our camp after having performed a mission elsewhere.  My vehicles are unarmored HMMWV’s mounted with … Continue reading →

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