Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

February 15, 2008 – Since his last combat deployment in Iraq, Jeremy Hall has had a rough time, getting shoved and threatened by his fellow soldiers. The trouble started there when he would not pray in the mess hall. “A … Continue reading →

February 15, 2008 – A pilot project intended to speed the process of evaluating and rating service members’ disabilities will do little more than turn a bad process into “a fast bad process,” the Army’s top medical official said Friday. … Continue reading →

February 14, 2008 – Washington, D.C. – On Thursday, the House Veterans’ Affairs Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs Subcommittee, led by Chairman John Hall (D-NY), conducted the second in a series of hearings on the benefits claims backlog at the … Continue reading →

February 17, 2008 – The Bush administration has spent a lot of money in Iraq since White House economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey was fired in 2002 for daring to predict the war might cost as much as $200 billion. An … Continue reading →

February 14, 2008 – Bridgetown, New Jersey – An Iraq war veteran believed by family members to have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder was shot to death by police after repeatedly stabbing his stepfather Wednesday morning, according to authorities. … Continue reading →

February 15, 2008 – A few months after Sgt. William Edwards and his wife, Sgt. Erin Edwards, returned to a Texas Army base from separate missions in Iraq, he assaulted her mercilessly. He struck her, choked her, dragged her over … Continue reading →

February 13, 2008 – On a sunny afternoon in Baqubah, a convoy of Iraqi troops and U.S. soldiers depart the small base they share on a mission to bring blankets and heating oil to a nearby village. They drive down … Continue reading →

February 12, 2008 – President Bush has been to Las Vegas nine times since he was first inaugurated, but last Wednesday was the first time he ever stayed overnight in Sin City. He and his aides (and the traveling press … Continue reading →

February 13, 2008 – Jackson Heights, NY – Lawyers from the Department of Justice have filed papers in a federal court in San Francisco arguing that American veterans have no legal right to specific types of medical care. The government’s … Continue reading →

VCS asked Congress to automatically approve claims for TBI and PTSD, to expand Benefits Delivery at Discharge, and to remove VBA’s Under Secretary for Benefits due to his track record of catastrophic failure – the number of veterans waiting for … Continue reading →