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Editorial Column: Afghanistan Crisis Worse than Iraq
June 19, 2008 – There’s a lot we know about Afghanistan and a lot more we don’t. An expert who knows much more than most of us – whose prescient insights I have benefited from for a decade and whom … Continue reading
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Results Support Early Screening of All Trauma Patients: PTSD is Prevalent 1 Year After Injury
June 2008, New York – Posttraumatic stress disorder and depression are extremely common a full year after hospitalization for injury and are associated with up to a nearly sixfold increased likelihood of failure to return to work, according to the … Continue reading
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Newspaper Editorial: VA Uses Veterans as ‘Lab Rats’
June 18, 2008 – It’s time that the House and Senate committee chairs investigate the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical ethics. As a three-month Washington Times/ABC News investigation revealed Tuesday, the VA is testing drugs with sometimes-severe side effects … Continue reading
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If You Lived at Camp Lejeune, The Marine Corps Needs You
June 18, 2008 – The Marine Corps is concerned about your health. We ENCOURAGE all former Marines, family members and civilian employees who resided or worked aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune between 1957 and 1987 to REGISTER with the … Continue reading
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Lawmakers Angered by VA Report About Problems at Marion VA Hospital
June 17, 2008, Marion, IL – The U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs may soon find himself in the crosshairs of the Illinois congressional delegation. Federal lawmakers from Illinois expressed anger Tuesday about a newly released federal report on poor management … Continue reading
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Fixing the First War: As US-Pakistani Tensions Mount, General Petraeus Steps In
June 18, 2008 – They seem an odd couple: the general who engineered President Bush’s surge in Iraq, and the presidential candidate who has promised to undo it. But look again. Gen. David Petraeus’s broad new agenda as the likely … Continue reading
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June 21, VCS in the News: VA Grants Only Six Percent of SHAD Veteran Disability Claims
“These numbers are shocking, disgraceful and disappointing and reflect poorly on VA,” said Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense. Low approval rate for vets’ chemical tests claims June 19, 2008, Washington, DC (AP) — The Veterans Affairs … Continue reading
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Army Contract Officer Ousted After Refusing to Pay $1 Billion in Questionable KBR Bills
June 17, 2008, Washington, DC – The Army official who managed the Pentagon’s largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the … Continue reading
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Report Questions Pentagon Accounts of Use of Torture on Enemy Prisoners of War
June 17, 2008 – A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and that those officials later cited memos from … Continue reading
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Disabled American Veterans Testify that DoD Violates New Disability Severance Payment Law
June 18, 2008 – At the end of a boisterous House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing in which lawmakers lambasted Veterans Affairs Department and Pentagon officials for not meeting various deadlines for improving care for wounded combat troops, Disabled American Veterans … Continue reading
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