Category Archives: Veterans for Common Sense News

Policy One Pager: Military and Veterans Educational Reform Act of 2012

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Team VCS

  Below is the official policy one pager. If you support this bill let people know. ——————- Senator Webb’s “Military and Veterans Educational Reform Act of 2012” makes a number of critical reforms to protect the integrity of the Post-9/11 … Continue reading →

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VCS Supports Senator Webb’s Military and Veterans Education Reform Act of 2012

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Team VCS

  Below is the text of an official letter of support from Veterans for Common Sense in support of  important legislation designed to ensure our military recieve a quality education. Please tell your elected officials to support this reform — … Continue reading →

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Wars’ Amputees: 4 of 5 Say “Life Is Full”

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Team VCS

From Time’s the battleland blog By Mark Thompson | @MarkThompson_DC | March 12, 2012 |         Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden Marine Corporal Raymond … Continue reading →

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Webb: Limit GI Bill at for-profit schools

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Team VCS

  By Rick Maze – Staff writer Posted : Friday Mar 9, 2012 11:20:35 EST The father of the Post-9/11 GI Bill has launched a battle to preserve the benefit by proposing new restrictions on tuition payments to for-profit schools. … Continue reading →

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Wal-Mart Therapy Tried as Pentagon Copes With Traumatized Troops

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Team VCS

  By Gopal Ratnam and Michelle Fay Cortez – Mar 7, 2012 11:00 PM C No one knows better than Connie Chapman that almost 150 years since troops came home with “soldier’s heart” after the Civil War, the U.S. military … Continue reading →

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Army Suicide Rates Soar Since Start Of Afghanistan And Iraq Wars

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Team VCS

March 8, 2012 (Business and Health) – The Army suicide rate has soared since the beginning of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, according to a new study. The number of army suicides increased by 80 percent between 2004 and 2008, … Continue reading →

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Sick soldiers: Symptoms exist but the diagnosis unclear

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Team VCS

by Kelly Gustafsonand Kristen KellarMarch 08, 2012   Benjamin Kesling/MEDILL Burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan burn 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Dust storms may also be to blame for health ailments. Courtesy of Octal/Flickr Produced by … Continue reading →

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Vets’ jobless rate takes big drop in February

Posted on March 9, 2012 by Team VCS

  By Rick Maze – Staff writer-Army Times Posted : Friday Mar 9, 2012 9:30:24 ESt Programs aimed at helping Iraq and Afghanistan veterans find jobs may be paying off, as the federal government reported a dramatic drop in the … Continue reading →

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Madigan team reversed 285 PTSD diagnoses, Sen. Murray says

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Team VCS

The Army has identified 285 Madigan Army Medical Center patients whose PTSD diagnoses were reversed by a forensic psychiatric screening team whose actions are now under investigation. By Hal Bernton Seattle Times staff reporter The Army Medical Command has identified … Continue reading →

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For Veterans With Post-Traumatic Stress, Pain Killers Carry Risks

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Team VCS

From the NYTIMES.com ATWAR blog By JAMES DAO Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are more likely to be prescribed opioid pain killers than other veterans with pain problems and more likely to use the opioids in risky ways, according to … Continue reading →

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