Monthly Archives: October 2009
POST 911 GI BILL TUITION REIMBURSEMENT
Go to AdvancePay GI Bill siteInformation on Emergency Payments for Veterans Awaiting VA Educational BenefitsSecretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has authorized advance...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-02-09
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. Lawmaker Spotlights Emergency GI Bill Payments. 2. Shinseki Said To Have Made PTSD A Priority For VA. 3. Service Organizations,...
The VA and it's New Approach to PTSD
PTSD: New War on An Old Foe Big changes underway at the VA could mean better treatment for thousands of vets. A bureaucracy in transition.By...
Executive Order 10501 – The Devil is in the details!
I always talk about the U.S. Government overstepping its bounds in withholding information from the citizenry. It is one of my main themes of...
Veterans Give High Marks to VA Pharmacies
J.D. Power Survey Documents "Customer Satisfaction"WASHINGTON - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced J.D. Power and Associates, a firm specializing in consumer...
Checking your location on the grid is your duty every day.
Today's New York Times shows us so many facets or our nation's health that it is important to stop for a minute and reflect...
Department of Veterans Affairs Homeless Veteran Summit
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will host its Homeless Veteran Summit, "Ending Homelessness Among Veterans within Five Years," on Nov. 3-5, 2009, at...
The Benefits of Acai Berry
The Acai Berry fruit is a small, round Berry-like fruit, not more than one grape, which has become popular as an ingredient in many...
Why Hire an Injured Veteran?
Hiring a wounded Veteran is not good will, it's just good business.by Captain Lonnie RyanGetting a job is tough these days. But to one...
Small Victory for Gulf War Veterans(90-91)- Gulf War Illness Funding
Gulf War Veterans Have Small Victory in Senate Defense Appropriations Actions TonightBreaking News Senate Defense Appropriations for Gulf War Illness ResearchGulf War illness Funding...
Deputy National Security Advisor, NSC Chief of Staff Mark Lippert Returning to Active Duty...
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary Deputy National Security Advisor, NSC Chief of Staff Mark Lippert Returning to Active Duty in the...
U.S. Senator John McCain: Aid and Comfort
With McCain supporters continually touting his heroism and attacking Democrats that served honorably in Vietnam like John Kerry and Al Gore, the unavoidable embarrassment that their standard-bearer may have been the biggest American traitor since Benedict Arnold, confidence in Conservative news sources has to disappear, at least with veterans.
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country 10-01-09
What's Inside Today's Local News for Veterans1. VA To Offer Online Alternative For Emergency GI Bill Payments. 2. Concern Expressed About Office In Charge Of VA/DOD...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
From the Department of Defence October 01, 2009 - No. 758-09 CONTRACTS AIR FORCE Northrop Grumman Technical Services of Herndon, Va., was awarded a...
VA Could Be Making Strides
Just read Jamie Reno's piece that was posted at Veterans for Common Sense (via Newsweek) on the slowly changing culture at the U.S. Dept...
Are Right Wing Extremists Trying to Recruit Our Troops?
by Bob Hanafin, Staff Writer A few months ago there was a controversy that got just as much a radical reception from the right-wing as...
Gulf War(90-91) Illness and Veterans Legislation in Senate and House
Update on Legislation for Persian Gulf War(90-91) VeteransGULF WAR VETERANS 90-91 Still ILL and Warrant Attention from Senators and CongressHere is what currently is...
Fighting Anti-Semitism
When I wrote my piece on Mikey Weinstein and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), I was driven by the fact that I am...
Government Lied about National Security Letters and the Patriot Act
Whether it's political posturing or actual policy prescriptions, President Obama's attacks on the bill protecting reporters’ confidentiality are shameful and undemocratic. Lisa Graves at...
Operation Troop Aid Reels in $10,000 Check Thanks to 'Deadliest Catch' Star
by Christy Watkins and Mark WoodsNashville, TN - Sept. 30, 2009) Nonprofit military organization Operation Troop Aid was surprised with a check for $10,000 after...
Obama's War: Take Your Time – Politics Daily
In today's Politics Daily writer David Wood has a piece that is very instructive in all the complexities of the Afghan war from the American...
Secretary Shinseki Announces New Outpatient Clinic for Peoria
Larger Facility to Replace Bob Michel Clinic WASHINGTON - Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki has announced plans to replace the Bob Michel...
White House Proposes Changes in Bill Protecting Reporters’ Confidentiality – W.P.
In today's New York Times there is a story, almost routine, that outlines the greatest threat to American freedoms that I can remember in...