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Mar 16, VCS in the News: Fire VBA Officials Who Hid 16,000 Veterans’ Claim Letters
March 14, 2009 – The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee wants President Barack Obama to add another $800 million to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs fiscal year 2010 budget to ensure veterans’ health care funding doesn’t dry up. Obama’s proposed 2010 … Continue reading
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Dallas VA Malpractice Lawyer – S. Greco – Alerts 50{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d} Iraqi War Vets Suffer PTSD
March 16, 2009, Dallas, TX – Indiana’s Times-Mail released the staggering results of a recent study by top Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) psychologist revealing Iraq war worse than Vietnam war for military veterans. The study shows, according to the … Continue reading
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Chain Teaching to Follow Army ‘Stand Down’ for Suicide Prevention
March 6, 2009 – An Army-wide “stand down” for suicide-prevention training continues through March 15 and it will be followed by chain teaching that must be completed by July 15. The centerpiece of the stand-down training is an interactive video … Continue reading
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Officials: Obama Close to Stating New Afghan Goals
March 13, 2009 – The Obama administration is close to announcing a redrawn strategy for a war in Afghanistan that the president says the United States is not winning, focusing on enlisting Pakistan in the fight against extremism and trimming … Continue reading
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Tagged terrorism
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March 12, VCS in the News: Veterans React to Iraq Pullout Plans – ‘A War That Never Should Have Happened’
March 12, 2009 – While they see President Obama’s 18-month timetable to remove U.S. troops from Iraq as a necessary first step to change, veterans’ organizations say Iraq and Afghanistan urgently need diplomacy and development, not lingering deployments or troop … Continue reading
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Tagged mental health
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VAOIG Audits VBA’s Compensation Rating Accuracy and Consistency Reviews
March 13, 2009 – VBA understated the claim decision error rate by about 10 percent and they did not fully implement the review plans designed to ensure that claims for similar conditions received the same evaluations and benefits. However, they … Continue reading
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Military Personnel Face Unique Challenges, Consequences
March 12, 2009 – At a family wedding, I had the chance to catch up with a cousin who has decided to join the military in lieu of unsubsidized education, blaming lack of personal direction and available work. This reason … Continue reading
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Secrecy a Factor in Rise of Military Suicides
March 11, 2009 – The Department of the Army has finally gone public and acknowledged the alarming rate of suicide among its ranks. While Army leadership is to be commended for breaking the barrier of silence regarding mental illness in … Continue reading
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Tagged mental health
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Mar 12, VCS in the News: Soldiers Committing Suicide
March 11, 2009 – Upon returning from Iraq, 23-year-old Marine Lance Corporal Jeffrey Michael Lucey suffered episodes of such intense war-induced rage that he’d often need to be consoled by his parents, who would rock him back to normalcy in … Continue reading
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Army Stands Up Task Force to Prevent Suicides
March 6, 2009 – Brig. Gen. Colleen McGuire has been selected to head up a new task force to prevent suicides in the Army. “Suicide is a multi-dimensional problem and as such will take a multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with … Continue reading
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