Author Archives: Team VCS

Problems at Other VA Facilities, Panel Told

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Team VCS

Story Highlights• Testimony paints picture of neglect and bureaucratic delays at VA facilities• Ex-official: Plan shelved to fix problems between VA, Defense departments• VA chief wasn’t behind move to abandon program, VA official tells House panel• Ex-official also says he … Continue reading →

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Failing Our Wounded

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Team VCS

After returning from Iraq in late 2005, Jonathan Schulze spent every day struggling not to fall apart. When a Department of Veterans Affairs clinic turned him away last month, he lost the battle. The 25-year-old Marine from Stewart, Minn., had … Continue reading →

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Bob Woodruff Reports: To Iraq and Back

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Team VCS

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his team ran over a bomb while out on patrol with U.S. troops in Iraq last year. He is about to tell his miraculous story of recovery, and how it reflects the experience of … Continue reading →

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VA Lowers Casualty Count – Says Higher Casualty Total Was Posted in Error

Posted on January 30, 2007 by Team VCS

For the last few months, anyone who consulted the Veterans Affairs Department’s Web site to learn how many American troops had been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan would have found this number: 50,508. But on Jan. 10, without explanation, the … Continue reading →

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Iraq War Vets Return; Some Have No Home

Posted on October 27, 2006 by Team VCS

National Guard Cpl. Joe Raicaldo is home from Iraq with things he didn’t have when he left: an honorable discharge, metal rods and screws up and down his spine, and an arm that moves like a robot’s. He’s also homeless, … Continue reading →

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Data Suggests Vast Costs Loom in Disability Claims

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Team VCS

Nearly one in five soldiers leaving the military after serving in Iraq and Afghanistan has been at least partly disabled as a result of service, according to documents of the Department of Veterans Affairs obtained by a Washington research group. … Continue reading →

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Letter to Editor: Veterans’ Health Care

Posted on September 9, 2006 by Team VCS

To the Editor, New York Times: As a former Department of Veterans Affairs headquarters project manager who monitored returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, I agree with Paul Krugman’s comment that the V.A. is a stunning success for quality medical care … Continue reading →

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When Our Troops Come Home

Posted on April 20, 2006 by Team VCS

Last year, I was invited by Gen. B.B. Bell, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe and Korea, to speak to a group of active-duty military men and women and their families in Heidelberg, Germany. My goal that day was … Continue reading →

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Anthrax escaped at Army lab in ’01, ’02

Posted on April 20, 2006 by Team VCS

The Army’s biological weapons defense laboratory at Fort Detrick probably had multiple episodes of anthrax contamination as workers strove to process a flood of samples sent there for testing in 2001 and 2002, an internal report says. The report contains … Continue reading →

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A Case for Accountability

Posted on April 20, 2006 by Team VCS

We have the best military in the world, hands down. We must complete what we started in Iraq, and there is no doubt in my mind that we have the military capacity to do that, provided the political will is … Continue reading →

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