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Military hits gay firings
The change is seen as a quick fix until a complete repeal of the ban can be passed by Congress
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press
Defense...
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country
VA Pittsburgh’s University Drive Division hosted a Post Deployment Health Reassessment (PDHRA) for more than 335 members of the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Pennsylvania Army National Guard earlier this year. Members of the National Guard, who returned from Iraq this past fall, received information about VA health care services and resources available to them through VA Pittsburgh and local veteran service organizations.
VFW Officer Hits VFW’s Tradewell in Testimony on Health Care
U.S. Rep Chet Edwards (D-Waco), member of the House Appropriations Committee and Chair of the House Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee, slammed...
Iran-Contra operative linked to questionable spy program
From CNN:
From Barbara Starr, CNN Pentagon correspondent
Washington (CNN) -- A former high-ranking CIA official who was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal has worked on...
Military Restricted Reporting Does Not Put Rapists Away
Whenever a new report on sexual assault in the military comes from the Pentagon, no doubt it can be read about on many women's...
VT Calls on All Veterans from All Parties to Stand Unified Against Domestic Political...
Since health care reform passed Congress on Sunday night, a series of angry -- and sometimes criminal -- reactions have been reported. We're monitoring the reports and have compiled several in the list below.
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 232-10
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CONTRACTS: AIR FORCE
Northrop Grumman of San Diego was awarded a $50,000,000 cost plus fixed fee/firm fixed price contract which will provide Global Hawk...
GORDON DUFF: THE “BABY KILLER” CONSPIRACY
ABORTION FOES HACKING UP STILL BORN BABIES
WOMEN FORCED TO CARRY THE DEAD IN THEIR WOMBS
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
When we talk about blasphemous...
PAKISTAN: No more “Do More”
Pakistan has delivered more than expected from her as a war ally and above all as a ?friend? and it?s high time for the US to remember that there will be No More 'Do More'. After all the puppets are puppets and the human beings are human beings.
Russian TV to Commemorate 65th Anniversary of WWII Victory, Needs U.S. Veteran for Interview...
65th ANNIVERSARY of the WORLD WAR II VICTORY
U.S. VETERANS NEEDED
TV CENTER, Russia - The National Russian Broadcasting Company «TV Center» is making a series of...
Indio-Israeli Nexus & Saudi Arabia
Wahhabi Islam, which originated in Saudi Arabia, is the primary religious movement behind extremist Islam, including al-Qaida and the Sunni Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Raman confirmed, "There has been a long history of links between jihadi terrorist elements in India and Saudi Arabia.
Tea partiers proved that I was right
In the very arc of his life, Lewis provides a yardstick for measuring American progress. The fact that he rose from that bridge to become a member of Congress says something about this country. But the fact that people demonstrating against healthcare reform chose to chant at him, "Kill the bill, person of color!" well, that says something, too.
Regional Veterans News 3/24/10
Regional stories on veterans' health, education and other benefits and issues today from Snowmass Village, Colorado, Whittier, California, Pullman, Washington, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Haverhill, Massachusetts, Mankato, Minnesota, Frankfort, Kentucky, La Grange, Illinois, and Rockwood, Tennessee.
Spitzer/Rosner: Lehman Scandal, Where’s the Follow-up?
Every time the truth was uncovered, investors fled and new investors demanded returns that compensated them for the new understanding of the known risks and for those that might remain hidden.
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country
The last item in the Washington Times (3/24, Fales, 77K) "Sgt. Shaft" column offers thanks "to Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki for directing VA attention to Persian Gulf War veterans." After noting that a "special task force has nearly completed a comprehensive report that will redefine how VA addresses the pain and suffering of ill veterans who deployed during the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991," the Times quotes Gulf War vet John R. Gingrich, the task force's chairman, who said, "Reaching out to Gulf War veterans is not only essential to our transformation of VA; for many of us it is also personal."
New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Gov Property and Israeli Espionage Released
With friends like Israel's rightwing government and its agents in the U.S., who needs enemies?
From Forbes:
New FBI Files Alleging AIPAC Theft of Government Property...
Attempt to Silence Vets Today for Standing With L.A. Vets, Litigation Threatened by Rees...
Rees Lloyd is a confused man.
Lloyd, pictured at left, wants to sue to silence VT for criticizing veterans service organizations' not lending institutional support and coming to...
Losing with Class a Lost Art at Politician School
With the recent vote on health care not going the way of the GOP, the nasty reactions are so bad that something needs to be said before they drive the once great and storied party off the cliff. The party that brought us Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and the great General Dwight D. Eisenhower demands that it finds it's way back to winning and losing with class. But how?
WASPs Receive Congressional Gold Medal for WWII Service
Shortly after the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor, male pilots became a vital resource in the war effort. When they proved scarce to...
GORDON DUFF: AMERICA AND ISRAEL, A HEALTH CARE COMPARISON
DIALOG IN A MADHOUSE, MOB RULE IN THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Editors note: Rumors are still flying about the "Obamacare"...
The American Legion: “We are 100 percent committed to ensuring that veterans and their...
WASHINGTON -- “I have been assured personally by the President, Secretary of Defense, VA Secretary, Speaker of the House, Majority Leaders, and numerous other Senators and Representatives – as has National Commander David Rehbein before me – that nothing in the national health care reform legislation will change current DoD and VA health care eligibility or practices,” said The American Legion National Commander Clarence E. Hill concerning the outcome of the health care vote on Sunday.
Perea-Henze Sworn in to Lead VA’s Policy and Planning Office
Dr. Raul Perea-Henze was sworn in yesterday at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, a key post in the department’s transformation to provide 21st century service to our nation’s Veterans.
Hillary Clinton Speaks to AIPAC says “Israeli Building Hurts Peace”
New Israeli construction on land claimed by the Palestinians threatens peace efforts and undermines America’s ability to help end the Arab-Israeli conflict, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a leading Jewish organization Monday.
American Civil Rights Org Fights Against Israeli Desecration of Ancient Cemetery
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is fighting to preserve the sanctity of the Mamilla Cemetery in Jerusalem.
Synopsis
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 226-10
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CONTRACTS: UNITED STATES TRANSPORTATION COMMAND
Air Transport International of Little Rock, Ark., is one of five indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity, fixed-price contractors that has...
DVA: Free Franchise Expo to be held Washington DC April 9 – 11
If you are in Washington DC April 9 – 11, 2010, The Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Veterans Enterprise (CVE) would like to cordially invite you and all Veterans, Uniform Personnel, and families to attend a "FREE" Franchise Expo.
U.S. Taxpayers Continue to Fund Foreign Government Against U.S. Interests
Israeli Policy: USA and U.K. interests no longer matter to her
U.K. expels Israel diplomat over killing as U.K. issues travel warning to Israel as...
Silver Star Families of America and MilitaryConnection.com hold Official Award Ceremony for Top Doc
After months of nominations and voting by veterans and active duty personel and and their families, in a formal ceremony at North Chicago VA Medical Center (NCVAMC), in North Chicago, Illinois, Elaine Yildiz was awarded the Top Doc award for Primary Practitioner by Sunshine Roth the National President of The Silver Star Families of America.
Top 10 Veterans News from Around the Country
Three nurses who served in World War II were recently honored in a special women veterans ceremony in Bismarck, N.D. Mildred Vernon, Lorraine Froehlich and Delores Henke were each given bronze medals designed by Linda Marquart, VA Women Veteran Program Manager at the VA Medical Center in Fargo, N.D. Vernon's grandson, Owen, a Marine Corps veteran, had mentioned to Marquart in passing that his grandmother had served as a Second Lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps after completing her nurse's training.
Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA) Decries Health Care Reform “Scare Tactics”
Despite the media spin and scare tactics of opponents of health care reform as reported in previous articles on VT, Sec Def Gates Knocks...
Google Battles China
From Maggie Shiels at the BBC:
It might be regarded as one of the slowest chess games in history, given that it took Google two...
Vets for Common Sense: VA Claims Process Broken, Fix It
Veterans for Common Sense: Fix Broken VA Claims System Now!
- Via Veterans for Common Sense
Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) Appears Before "Claims Summit 2010"...
A Tea Partier Responds on Health Care
Editor's Note: Responding to a recent string of bigoted attacks made on supporters of Health Care Reform by attendees of Tea Party rallies in Washington D.C., VT extended...
Sec Def Gates Knocks Down Fox/VFW Report on Tricare
Joining the American Legion, DVA Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, the Congressional Veterans Affairs Committes' Chairs, Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates knocked down the report...
The Small City of Canal Fulton, Ohio
The small city of Canal Fulton, Ohio, rolled out the “red carpet” and flag waving crowds swelled along the streets in anticipation. May 17,...
U.S. Department of Defense Announces Latest Contract Awards
No. 221-10
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CONTRACTS: NAVY
Raytheon Co., Marlborough, Mass., is being awarded a $28,144,958 firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract (N00039-08-C-0115) for eight Submarine High Data...
Marksmen issued better rifles in Afghanistan
From the Army Times:
By Matthew Cox - Staff writer, Army Times
The Army is doubling the number of 7.62mm weapons in the infantry squad, increasing...
The American Legion’s Operation Comfort Warriors finishes first, wins $250K in Pepsi Cola’s Refresh...
WASHINGTON – The people voted and the troops won. PepsiCo has officially announced that The American Legion’s Operation Comfort Warriors will be awarded a...
American Legion Says Health Care Reform Won’t Harm VA, DoD
Looks like Thomas J. Tradewell Sr., head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is pretty much alone among veterans in repeating GOP talking points.
This...
Potential Trade War Brewing With China?
From Uncommon Wisdom:
by Sean Brodrick
I don’t think we’ll see a trade war anytime soon, for the simple reason that the wheels of politics turn...
Another Gulf War Syndrome?
From Beth Hawkins at Mother Jones:
Before her last deployment, 31-year-old Staff Sergeant Danielle Nienajadlo passed her Army physical with flying colors. So when she...
Military Order of the Purple Heart Salutes the Blinded Veterans Assoc
The Military Order of the Purple Heart is pleased to recognize the Blinded Veterans Association and its Members on the 65th Anniversary of their...