Monthly Archives: July 2012

VA Oversight Hearing on Claims Backlog

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Team VCS

  By Steve Fogel The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will join the fray over the Department of Veterans Affairs’ growing backlog of disability claims at a subcommittee hearing Wednesday morning. The backlog of claims filed by veterans seeking … Continue reading →

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US Retraining Programs Aims to Help Unemployed Veterans

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Team VCS

  by David Rookhuyzen The Republic | azcentral.com Thousands of unemployed, middle-age veterans are getting a chance to start over under a special GI Bill designed to train them for new careers. Concerned about the high long-term jobless rate and growing … Continue reading →

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Report:DOD and VA Do Not Adequately Track PTSD Treatment Successes

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Team VCS

From Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — Despite millions spent treating post-traumatic stress disorder, defense and Veterans Affairs officials have little idea how effective those programs are because they don’t track cases closely enough, a new report contends. Officials from the … Continue reading →

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To boost veteran employment, VA uses online career center

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Team VCS

From the Washington Postby Majorie Censer   Tasked by President Obama with reducing the unemployment rate for veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs has developed an online career center to help translate military experience to civilian work. The department’s Veteran … Continue reading →

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Army, VA partner for PTSD drug study

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Team VCS

From the Frederick News Post by Courtney Mabeus An Army office at Fort Detrick and a veterans program are teaming up to study drugs that could help treat combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder. The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s Neurotrauma and Psychological … Continue reading →

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Backlash builds as for-profit schools rake in GI Bill funds

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Team VCS

Critics warn that some for-profit schools mislead veterans, who use their taxpayer-funded GI Bill money on hugely expensive educations with bleak job prospects. By David Zucchino and Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times July 16, 2012, 5:00 a.m. WASHINGTON — After Moses … Continue reading →

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Operations Boots to Business

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Team VCS

From Stars and Stripes By JONATHAN D. EPSTEIN The Buffalo (N.Y.) News The U.S. Small Business Administration has launched a new program in partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Defense Department to train transitioning servicemembers and veterans to … Continue reading →

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Senate HELP Committee Releases Report on, Recommendations on Disability Employment

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Team VCS

WASHINGTON—Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and the Senate author of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, released a report detailing the current state of employment for adults with disabilities, and describing … Continue reading →

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The (pixelated) things they carry.

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Team VCS

VCS Advocate Chris Miller’s New Article from The Guardian   US soldiers wear the grey pixel pattern in action. Photograph: Ramon Espinosa/AP Friday 13 July 2012 This is not the Army’s first uniform controversy, but given the costs we must … Continue reading →

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Will PTSD By Any Other Name Bring More Troops to Treatment?

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Team VCS

by Aaron Levin From PsychiatryOnline While two generals and two psychiatrists disagree over diagnostic language, they do agree about the crucial need to get troops with posttraumatic stress disorder into care. The general wants to change one word. The psychiatrist … Continue reading →

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