Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News

1. Veterans group considers better health-care access at an existing clinic in Lafayette.
2TheAdvocate
The US Department of Veterans Affairs plans to expand the Lafayette clinic, but the group has argued that the plans aren’t extensive enough.

2. Legion commander calls local VA facilities ‘top-notch’.
MyWebTimes.com
Mella, a retiree of the US Department of Veterans Affairs and a past post commander from Gladwin, Mich., started his morning Tuesday with a tour of the new

3. Conference attracts national voices.
Pueblo Chieftain
Pete Wilson’s administration and then appointed a regional affairs liaison for the federal Department of Veterans Affairs during the Bush administration.

4. Trauma in Childhood Could Contribute to Obesity in Adults.
Newswise (press release)
Dr. Dedert has received a career development award from the US Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate the combination of Cognitive Processing Therapy

5. Information Builders and immixGroup Awarded Contract With US Department of ….
Marketwire (press release)
… premium maintenance support, professional and technical services, and education to the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Repositories Program.

6. Veterans program grant writing workshop to held.
KPUA
By AP HONOLULU (AP) — The US Department of Veterans Affairs is hosting a grant-writing workshop this week in Honolulu for nonprofit groups that assist

7.      Bank apologizes for overcharging troops for mortgages. 

WASHINGTON JPMorgan Chase & Co. is repaying more than $2 million to about 4,000 military families who were overcharged for their mortgages.

8.    Guam continues push for WWII reparation legislation. 

The House bill was the first action of the new year by Guam Congresswoman Madeleine Bordallo, who was sworn in this month following her re-election in November. Bordallo has said the reparations are her top priority in Congress.

9. Study: Proactive counseling stems troops’ mental ills.

A battlefield study conducted by the Army on 20,000 soldiers during the troop surge in Iraq shows that more aggressive efforts to question and counsel GIs about their mental health reduce by nearly 80% the number who develop behavioral health illnesses during combat.  The results of the study, to be published today in the American Journal of Psychiatry, also show that 54% fewer soldiers contemplated suicide and that the number who needed to be sent home from Iraq with mental health problems dropped by nearly 70%.

10.  Navy radio man who sent first Pearl alerts dies

BILLINGS, Mont. — Ed Chlapowski, the man who notified the world that Pearl Harbor was being bombed by the Japanese, has died at 88. The former Navy radio man died Sunday at his home in Billings a few weeks after being diagnosed with cancer, his family said.