Author Archives: Team VCS

January 8, 2008 – Pundits and pols who have been tracking President Bush’s constitutional transgressions can add another to the list: his Dec. 28 “pocket veto” of the massive defense spending bill. Instead of issuing a regular veto, which allows … Continue reading →

January 12, 2008 – A leading military analyst with the Ministry of Defence’s own think tank warned that Nato was on the “precipice of failure” in Afghanistan unless it swaps throwing “money and troops” at the country’s problems for a more … Continue reading →

January 14, 2008 – Geography shouldn’t affect disability compensation to U.S. veterans. But it does. Such disparities have been a longstanding concern of the Disabled American Veterans, DAV spokesman Dave Autry said from Washington, D.C. Geographic inconsistencies in rating veterans’ … Continue reading →

January 14, 2008 – Freshman Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), the only Iraq war veteran in Congress, is facing a re-election fight against a colonel in the Marine reserves whose son was killed in Iraq last year. Republican Tom Manion, 53, … Continue reading →

January 13, 2008 – Late one night in the summer of 2005, Matthew Sepi, a 20-year-old Iraq combat veteran, headed out to a 7-Eleven in the seedy Las Vegas neighborhood where he had settled after leaving the Army. Thіѕ particular … Continue reading →

January 6, 2008 – Chaplain Douglas Fenton is quite matter-of-fact as he tells the story of the severed foot. He’d been deployed to Baquba, Iraq. Soldiers handed him a cardboard box containing the foot they had just found, a foot … Continue reading →

Here is an event I have no intention of honoring: American Religious History Week. OK, it’s not official yet. But it is spelled out as Resolution 888 in the bowels of a House committee, sponsored by Republican Congressman Randy Forbes … Continue reading →

January 10, 2008 – Denton County [Texas] veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan will benefit from a half-million dollars granted to two agencies to provide mental health assistance for the them and their families in “Operation Healthy Reunion.” Mental Health America … Continue reading →

Of 750,000 veterans of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars, the suit says, at least 15{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d} suffer from PTSD, an emotional illness characterized by nightmares, memory loss and irritability. The VA’s failure to provide treatment — only 27 of the nation’s … Continue reading →

January 12, 2008 – The recent killing of two U.S. soldiers by their Iraqi colleague has raised disturbing questions about U.S. military relations with the Iraqis they work with. On Dec. 26, an Iraqi soldier opened fire on U.S. soldiers … Continue reading →