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Dec 6, VA News: President-Elect Obama to Announce New Secretary on Sunday, Dec 7
Obama to Announce Pick for Veterans Affairs December 6, 2008 (Bloomberg) – President-elect Barack Obama will announce his choice to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs tomorrow at a news conference in Chicago, according to a Democratic aide. Obama’s pick … Continue reading
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Dec 6, Chairman Akaka and Chairman Filner Support General Shinseki as New VA Secretary
December 6, 2008 – The chairmen of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs committees Saturday strongly endorsed President-elect Barack Obama ’s choice of retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to head the Veterans Affairs Department. Obama’s announcement was expected to … Continue reading
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Dec 6: President-Elect Obama Names Retired Army General Eric Shinseki as VA Secretary
6:19 PM ET, December 6, 2008, Retired Army Gen. Eric K. Shinseki will be introduced tomorrow as President-elect Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs, a Democratic official familiar with the announcement said today. Obama confirmed the … Continue reading
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Obama Chooses to Stay the Course on Foreign Policy
December 5, 2008 – Monday’s formal announcement that Hillary Clinton will be Barack Obama’s Secretary of State, and Robert Gates will remain as Secretary of Defense, can hardly have caught anyone by surprise. Rumors were rampant that Clinton was the … Continue reading
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Murray Calls for Increased TBI Screening and Research After Study Reveals Long Term Toll on Service Members
December 4, 2008, Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and a member of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the following statement after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released … Continue reading
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Deciphering Today’s Signature War Injury
December 2, 2008 – The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan brought the American military some unpleasant surprises, prominent among them the vicious effectiveness of cheap, small armaments such as mines, roadside bombs, and rocket-propelled grenades. But the soldiers, commanders, and … Continue reading
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Editorial Column: Veterans Deserve Better
December 5, 2008 – At first glance, the reports of document shredding and consequent dismissal of the director and five top managers from the New York regional office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs might appear to be simply … Continue reading
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Tagged backlog, TBI, VA Claims Crisis
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Dec 5, VCS on the Radio: Paul Sullivan Discusses Gulf War Illnesses
December 5, 2008 – This week on CounterSpin: For years veterans claiming to suffer from Gulf War Syndrome were derided as cranky and hysterical by the department of defense and even by some journalists. Will that change now that a … Continue reading
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U.S. Mulls Unusual Tactic as Blackwater Charges Loom
December 4, 2008 – Blackwater Worldwide guards involved in a deadly Baghdad shooting of Iraqi civilians in 2007 could face mandatory 30-year prison sentences. People close to the case say the Justice Department could prosecute the guards under an anti-drug … Continue reading
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Scenarios – How Could Mumbai Attack Affect Afghanistan War?
December 5, 2008 – Attacks on Mumbai have fueled concerns that rising tension with India will divert Pakistan’s attention from fighting insurgents in its western tribal areas who are infiltrating Afghanistan to stage attacks on U.S., NATO and Afghan forces. … Continue reading
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