Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Attack Kills Nine GIs in Iraq on April 23

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Team VCS

BAGHDAD, April 24 — A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-rigged truck into a U.S. military outpost near Baqubah on Monday, killing nine soldiers and wounding 20 in one of the deadliest single ground attacks on U.S. forces since the start … Continue reading →

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Editorial Column: Bush Administration’s Hacks at VA and DoD Still Need to Go

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Team VCS

Beyond Walter Reed: the DOD’s Other Healthcare Scandal The governmental and media response to the Walter Reed scandal scratches only the most visible layer of the larger crisis in the US military’s healthcare system. The fact remains that the majority … Continue reading →

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New Measures Announced on Veteran’s Care

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Team VCS

WASHINGTON — Injured soldiers and veterans grappling with backlogs and red tape will now fill out less paperwork, get more screenings for brain injury and have an improved claims system, a presidential task force said Tuesday. To read the report, … Continue reading →

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Mission of Marines’ Parents: To Cope

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Team VCS

ST. LOUIS — Patricia Fry, whose son is a Marine infantryman, was explaining the fine art of creating a scrapbook to Rita Swift, whose son is a Marine helicopter pilot. “I think the blue looks great because it brings out … Continue reading →

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VA Gains EHR Access, Adds Patient Tracking System

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Team VCS

The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday will allow every clinician at all its hospitals and clinics to access in real-time electronic health records of wounded soldiers evacuated from Afghanistan and Iraq through a VA version of the Department of … Continue reading →

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Cooking the Books at VA – Veterans Fall Through the Cracks

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Team VCS

Nurse Diane Birmingham offered her resignation to the Cheyenne Veterans Affairs Medical Center last Monday with great relief. She was tired and demoralized and no longer able to fight for the patients. Birmingham is the second medical practitioner in two … Continue reading →

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Soldier Says He Was Deployed With Head Injury

Posted on April 21, 2007 by Team VCS

After an hour of bench-pressing a log weighing several hundred pounds during Army Special Forces selection training in February 2006, five soldiers lying on their backs at Fort Bragg, N.C., reacted quickly to the next order: “Drop back!” So quickly, … Continue reading →

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Injured Troops Struggle to Get Health Care

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Team VCS

All Things Considered, April 20, 2007 · When service members are forced to leave the military by war injuries or illness, they face a complex system for getting health and disability benefits. Sometimes, health care gets cut off when new … Continue reading →

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Policy Shift in 1985 Cut Disability Retirements

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Team VCS

Today’s Disability Retirement Squeeze Began Years Ago        Wary of rising disability retirement costs, the Department of Defense under then-secretary Caspar Weinberger quietly sought and received an internal legal opinion that, to this day, tamps down the number of wounded or … Continue reading →

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Editorial – Levin Gives Cheney Reason to Smirk

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Team VCS

Never before have I felt such irk from a Cheney smirk — the one with which he confidently assured CBS’s Bob Schieffer on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” that the Democrats will continue to vote to fund the war without including … Continue reading →

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