Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Group insurance has paid out $103M to severely wounded

Posted on March 14, 2006 by Team VCS

More than 1,600 severely wounded servicemembers have received cash payouts through the new Traumatic Servicemembers Group Life Insurance program in its first three months, according to program officials. The program, launched in December, allows servicemembers to pay $1 a month … Continue reading →

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Science Quickens Its Steps

Posted on March 14, 2006 by Team VCS

In the history of war, the more proficient combatants have become at fighting, the better medicine has become at healing. During World War II, battlefield doctors devised better techniques to repair delicate blood vessels, essentially rewriting the textbooks on vascular … Continue reading →

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Dole calls on veterans department to make report

Posted on March 11, 2006 by Team VCS

U-S Senator Elizabeth Dole is calling on the federal Department of Veterans Affairs to report on its ability to handle the increasing number of veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.Dole’s office says a recent study indicates that combat duty … Continue reading →

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Reid sponsors bill to help wounded veterans

Posted on March 11, 2006 by Team VCS

A bill that would guarantee a portion of retirement benefits to military members forced out of service because of combat injuries was introduced on Wednesday in the U.S. Senate. The compensation bill would pro-rate retirement pay for injured veterans. Currently, … Continue reading →

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Iraq War Veteran in Taped Shooting Struggles to Walk

Posted on March 11, 2006 by Team VCS

The 21-year-old Iraq war veteran seen in a video being shot by a sheriff’s deputy says in a recorded statement that he has difficulty walking. Senior Airman Elio Carrion released a videotaped statement through his attorney Thursday, a day after … Continue reading →

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By the ‘Rivers of Babylon’: The tears keep flowing

Posted on March 9, 2006 by Team VCS

Rabbi Carlos Huerta, the Jewish community chaplain at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, says he is often asked the same question whenever he speaks at local high schools and colleges: Are soldiers afraid of bullets? Huerta, a major … Continue reading →

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Ruling Allows Reservists to Petition for Back Pay

Posted on March 9, 2006 by Team VCS

A federal board has ruled that a new cohort of National Guard and military reservists may petition for back pay because of improperly charged military leave A recent ruling by the Merit Systems Protection Board, an independent agency that helps … Continue reading →

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Discharged and dishonored: Shortchanging America’s veterans

Posted on March 8, 2006 by Team VCS

Like thousands of his fellow veterans of America’s wars, Alfred Brown died waiting. In 1945, when he was a 19-year-old soldier fighting in Italy, shrapnel from an enemy shell ripped into his abdomen. His wounds were so severe that he … Continue reading →

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GOP lawmakers work to limit probe of domestic spying program

Posted on March 7, 2006 by Team VCS

WASHINGTON – Republicans in Congress are trying to limit the scope of any investigation into how President Bush’s secret domestic-surveillance program has operated. Some key lawmakers are also working to legalize such spying on U.S. citizens in the future, perhaps … Continue reading →

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Young war vets face uphill climb in job market

Posted on March 7, 2006 by Team VCS

Some of our newest veterans are dealing with one of America’s oldest problems. Coming home from the battle lines and heading straight for the unemployment line. The latest Department of Labor statistics show that veterans between the ages of 20 … Continue reading →

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