Monthly Archives: September 2009
Pinkerton Security Services Joins Up with HireVeterans.com
Pinkerton Government Services Partners with HireVeterans.com Veterans Get Great Security Jobs at Pinkerton Government Services by Gordon Gates Since...
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Joins HireVeterans.com
Internal Revenue Service Joins HireVeterans.com IRS hiring Now! Veterans get Career Jobs at IRS by Gordon G. Gates Okay, everyone knows who...
Bayer Partners with HireVeterans.com to Employ Military Veterans
Bayer Leads Industry in Hiring U.S. Veteransby Gordon Gates For most people, taking a Bayer Aspirin is the initial introduction to this...
Exciting Breakthroughs in Medical Research :MS, Autoimmune
GULF WAR VETERANS WITH AUTOIMMUNE DISORDERS/MS/Myelin Problems/Diabetes/Arthritis/Immune Disorder-Research UpdatesBreaking NEWS on Multiple Sclerosis IMPORTANT RESEARCHExciting news from Italy. I believe everyone should take notice...
PARKINSON's DISEASE AND GULF WAR 90-91 VETERANS
Parkinson's Disease and Agent Orange VeteransParkinson's Disease and Gulf War VeteransAN IDENTIFIED NEED FOR REGISTRIES at the VA for DIAGNOSED ILLNESSES in GULF WAR(90-91)...
COST OF VA COUNTERTERRORISM POLICE BRINGS CUTS IN MEDICAL CARE
VA SURVEILLANCE COSTS SKYROCKETBy Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER(left: Terrorist suspect confronted by VA police)Veterans Affairs funds normally earmarked for medical, dental and psychiatric services are...
El Toro Marines Question TCE Usage
EPA reported that Trichloroethylene (TCE) was discontinued at MCAS El Toro in the mid-1970s. Marine veterans dispute this story. (Irvine, CA) - Who’s telling...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 9-19-09
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. Shinseki Helps Announce Vets Program. 2. VA Warns Veterans About Credit Card Scam. 3. Some Texas Vets Report Not Receiving...
AKAKA & TESTER CALL FOR DELIBERATE ACTION TO FIX VA’S VETERANS’ DISABILITY COMPENSATION SYSTEM
The Senate and House Committees on Veterans Affairs are now considering whether ot not to substantially increase the amount of pensions for disabled veterans...
PROMOTING ARMY AND VET SUICIDES: "FRAMED" WITH BAD DISCHARGES
ARMY GIVES BAD DISCHARGES TO THOUSANDS OF PTSD VETSBENEFIT DENIAL SCAM UPS SUICIDE RATESBy Gordon Duff STAFF WRITERIt all began as a Bush era program,...
IG Reports on VA Endoscopes
Inspector General Completes Study of VA Endoscopic ProgramsWASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Inspector General inspected every VA medical site...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards: 9-18-09
Supplycore, Inc., Rockford, Ill.* is being awarded a maximum $525,000,000 Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO), indefinite quantity and indefinite delivery contract for supplies. There...
Former CIA Directors Ask Administration to Drop Probe Into Interrogations – W.P.
In today's Washington Post, seven former CIA directors have asked the President to halt the Attorney General's investigation into abuses by intelligence interrogators. The...
GULF WAR 90-91 VETERANS DYING RAPIDLY
TAPS GULF WAR VETERAN DEATHS SO FAR FOR SEPT TOTAL 25! I have been saving all the Obits over last several Months, but I too...
NOT ALL VIETNAM POWS WERE CREATED EQUAL
HEROES or HUCKSTERS?By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITERI first started talking about POWs while in Vietnam as a Marine. Universally, all of us wanted to...
Mullen: More Troops 'Probably' Needed – W.P.
In today's Washington Post, there is an article outlining the comments of Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in yesterday's briefing...
History Made and History Being Made. A Veteran's View.
I go through the New York Times and the Washington Post every morning to look for items that veterans can ponder that day. Uncharacteristic...
Veterans for Common Sense Releases New Iraq and Afghanistan War Fact Sheets
Attached for our readers are two new fact sheets prepared by the staff of Veterans for Common Sense (VCS). The first...
U.S. Supreme Court To Decide Fate Of Mojave Cross
By Katharine RussOn October 7, 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the “Mojave Cross” (Salazar v Buono) that has been...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards: 9-17-09
Alliance Contractor Team of Leesburg, Va., is being awarded an estimated $1,580,619,789 firm fixed-price contract for international airlift services with a minimum guarantee of...
VA Warns of Telephone Prescription Scam
VA Warns Veterans of Telephone Prescription ScamWASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is warning Veterans not to give credit card numbers over...
POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY: FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 2009 –REMEMBERING AND HONORING THE POWs, THE MIAs,...
by Rees Lloyd The third Friday of September is annual “POW/MIA Recognition Day,” a day to remember the service and suffering of prisoners of...
MUSINGS: MOVING INTO A FALL WEEKEND
DEFINING NOSTALGIABUYING BACK OUR GOLDEN YEARSBy Gordon Duff STAFF WRITERLittle things pile up and can overwhelm us. Even when they don't, so many of...
Secretary Announces Initiative with Red Sox and Mass. General Hospital
VA Secretary Helps Launch The Red Sox Foundation-Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base ProgramWASHINGTON - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki joined The Red...
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT PRESENTATION OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR TO STAFF SERGEANT...
East Room, 2:00 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Please be seated. Good afternoon, and welcome to the White House. Of all the privileges serving as President,...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 9-17-09
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. Mullen: Defense, VA Must Do Better Job Healing Mental Wounds Of War. 2. VA Asking For Patience On Pending...
VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL FUND AND FEDEX OFFICE TO LAUNCH
NATIONAL CALL FOR PHOTOS OF THE MORE THAN 58,000 INDIVIDUALSNAMED ON THE WALLFedEx Office Locations around the Country to Help Gather PhotosWashington, D.C. —...
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Holds Roundtable on Veterans’ Treatment Courts
Discussion Focuses on Successful Courts Aiming to Leave No Veteran BehindWashington, D.C. – On Wednesday, September 16, 2009, Chairman Bob Filner (D-CA) led a...
Misdirected Anger and Confusion Everywhere – What Should Veterans Do?
Today's New York Times is a cornucopia of angst, anger, fear and horror throughout the world. The American economy, American troops or the effects...
DEFINITIVE JOE WILSON FACT CHECK
FACTS PROVE WILSON LIED ABOUT APOLOGYWILSON LIED ABOUT HEALTH CARE BILLWILSON LIED WHEN CALLING OBAMA A LIAR
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards: 9-16-09
Goldbelt Hawk LLC, Newport News, Va., is being awarded a $33,562,450 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with cost-plus-fixed-fee pricing to support the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM)...
PURGING AMERICA OF HATE
WITH NO ACTUAL ISSUES INVOLVEDPROTESTS COME DOWN TO RACE HATRED By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITERHow is a minority of extremists with no real cause...
More Than 425,000 Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Treated by VA – More Than...
by Paul Sullivan and Lauren HohleVCS Releases Dozens of New VA Reports Obtained Using FOIAWashington, DC – According to government reports obtained exclusively by...
Ku Klux Klowns on the Wrong Side of AmeriKKKan History
The GOP Extremist Shrinking Party of NO does NOT want to be part of our evoling colorful USA tribe. by William Rivers PittAn anti-Obama...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 9-16-09
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. Duckworth Addresses State VA Directors. 2. Filner Praises VA For Restarting National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study. 3. Shinseki Discusses "Faster...
Reduce Combat Deaths by 20% Now! Implement Tactical Combat Causality Care (TCCC)
by Capt Bill Kibble USAF (Ret.), Vietnam VeteranI strongly encourage readers to lobby President Barack Obama and their Congressmen to implement Tactical Combat Causality...
President Obama to Award Medal of Honor to Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti
WASHINGTON – On Thursday, September 17th, the President will award Sergeant First Class Jared C. Monti, U.S. Army, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous...
Our government within our government wants war to continue. Bush years saw no growth...
The New York Times today ran several articles and editorials that show clearly the dangers of the American problem of "government within our government". President...
The numbers are in and it does not look good for the home team....
The Washington Post has just released virtually every conceivable number recently garnered relative to national demographics and the related percentages of support for the western Asian wars...
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT MAY HELP VETERANS WITH PTSD/TBI TO ADJUST TO CIVILIAN LIFE
From Medscape Medical News Virtual Environment May Help Veterans With PTSD/TBI Better Adjust to Civilian Life BY Deborah Brauser September 8, 2009 —...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards: 9-15-09
CSC Applied Technologies, LLC of Fort Worth, Texas was awarded a $70,504,014 contract for base operating support and aircraft maintenance for Vance Air Force...
Former Speechwriter Says Bush Slammed Obama, Predicted Palin Debacle
by Tom Barnes, Staff WriterWhoa! Talk about a reality check! Wait until you read this. Whether your a Republican or a Democrat is not...