Category Archives: Gulf War Updates

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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Advanced Technology Identifies “Core” Brain Abnormality in Gulf War Illness

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Team VCS

  Written by Anthony Hardie, 91outcomes.com (91outcomes.com) – A discovery by a Minneapolis medical researcher may lead to a new test to help identify Gulf War Illness, a unique disease that affects 250,000 veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, according … Continue reading →

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Purple Hearts for PTSD debated

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Team VCS

  By BARRIE BARBER Dayton Daily News Published: June 18, 2012 With more than 2 million service members returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury have become the signature wounds of both conflicts. But while … Continue reading →

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Two UC-San Diego Researchers Aim to Help Gulf War Veterans with Gulf War Illness

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Team VCS

By friend of VCS and Gulf War and Somalia veteran Written by Anthony Hardie, 91outcomes.com “This is just as much about future combat operations as it is about the past” Healthy and Ill 1991 Gulf War Veteran Research Study Participants … Continue reading →

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AP IMPACT: Almost half of new vets seek disability

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Team VCS

From AP Impact BY MARILYNN MARCHIONE AP CHIEF MEDICAL WRITER America’s newest veterans are filing for disability benefits at a historic rate, claiming to be the most medically and mentally troubled generation of former troops the nation has ever seen. … Continue reading →

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Why Smart Businesses Understand That Veterans Are Outstanding Employees

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Team VCS

Great quotes form VCS friend Steve Robinson Ryan Scott, Contributor + Comment now Amidst a sluggish economy that keeps slogging, increasing attention has been called to the abysmal employment rate of returning veterans.  How bad is it?  The latest figures by … Continue reading →

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Businesses Backing Vets: How Companies Are Putting Veterans to Work

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Team VCS

From the Huffington Post By Ryan Scott Founder and CEO, Causecast Part of a Memorial Day series by Causecast that examines how Corporate America is finding new ways to help veterans. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that “the unemployment rate for veterans … Continue reading →

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Angry vets demand end to backlog of disability claims

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Team VCS

More than 200 veterans attend a forum organized by lawmakers seeking to expedite stalled or bungled disability claims. One attendee filed his claim in 1947. Veteran Douglas Briggs throws up his arms in frustration as he makes his feelings known … Continue reading →

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We Pretend the Vets Don’t Exist’

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Team VCS

  VCS in the news From the Daily Beast and Newsweek May 21, 2012 1:00 AM EDT Author and former marine Anthony Swofford gets to the bottom of an epidemic.   I was sitting next to Melissa, a call responder … Continue reading →

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Court Rejects Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans’ Demand for Better VA Care

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Team VCS

VCS lawsuit in the news  – From the Daily Beast by Jamie Reno The plaintiffs in the case of Veterans for Common Sense v. Eric K. Shinsekithought they had a sure winner on their hands. Filed by veterans’ rights groups in … Continue reading →

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