Tag: Veterans

There are nearly 23 million veterans, according to the 2010 National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics.

"The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship" blows apart the only American investigation that was ever conducted: the U.S. Naval Court of Inquiry's white wash rush job that confirmed Israel's claim of "mistaken identity."

Yesterday afternoon the VFW joined Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., at the U.S. Capitol, where Reed formally introduced the Servicemember Housing Protection Act, S. 3179, alongside Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Mark Begich, D-Alaska, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., as well as Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden and leading veterans’ advocates.

Like our U.S. Military Veterans, it is certainly possible that Seau suffered from a similar affliction that causes U.S. Soldiers and Veterans to terminate their lives.

Many military personnel, spouses, former spouses and retirees are victimized by myths and misstatements about disability payments from the Department of Veterans Affairs and their effect on money issues in a divorce. Some people claim that VA benefits can be divided in a divorce, just like a military pension.

Representative Bill Johnson is pleased to announce the 2012 Eastern Ohio Job Fair will take place on May 7 from 10am - 2pm at...

Years ago, we were the first to report that Rupert Murdoch was tied to Israeli intelligence.

The U.S.S. Intrepid will be buzzing with activity this week. But the hundreds of men and women on board will be preparing for a different kind of battle.

Editor's note:  We are unable to mention why former Congressman and UN Ambassador Mark Siljander became a target of the Neocon Mafia/Bush and Company. ...

I stopped by the Veterans Service Office at the V.A. Clinic and talked to Pat Grzybowski and he said that he was told by Lee Armstrong that I was invited to the last meeting, however the invite never came.

Let me introduce you to Dr. Gary Levin. Dr. Levin was in the US Navy from 1969 to 1971 serving as a general medical officer. He was in an amphibious group, and served on the USS Jeneau, LPD 10.

High Tech Locksmiths is reaching out right to hire U.S. Military Veterans. Apply Now!

Gordon Duff, Senior Editor at VT slams the U.S. military for doing “very little about” the rising suicide rate among troops, blaming multiple deployments and faulty medications as to why soldiers resort to taking their own lives.

Professionals and veterans to empower veterans with tools to transitioning into civilian jobs   Workforce Connections in partnership with the Las Vegas Urban League, ReviewJournal.com, Nevada JobConnect and United Way of...

By:Doug DeDecker   St. James Plaindealer —The first phase of a significant local and state wide effort to assist in the hiring of veterans culminated in...

If we are going to hell as a country, it shouldn't surprise any of us

In my earlier writings about the Google+ platform I suggested to my readers that this Google product was perhaps the most significant leap in social media technology since the invention of the telephone.

In a report today, the New York Times acknowledged the Army's practice of diagnosing troops with Post Traumatic Stress as having "personality disorders." This makes them ineligible for benefits. The number diagnosed as such is unknown, 26,000 at one point years ago, much higher now.

More than 27 million military veterans are eligible for VA home loan benefits and that number is expected to rise as more service members return from Iraq and Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON – With more than 1 million active-duty personnel scheduled to join the ranks of America’s 22 million Veterans during the next five years,...

Project Management Solutions Group is now hiring U.S. Veterans. They are an enterprise project management firm that handles IT, telecommunications, business operations, supply-chain logistics, real estate and construction

I was invited to attend a symposium at the US Naval War College in Newport, RI last summer to learn something about how our Navy deals with terrorist threats to our fleets worldwide.

By:Izzy   Self-Employment for Veterans Self-employment has long been an option for people unable to find an employed position in the mainstream job market. During difficult economic...

Men and Women in the military know that they risk their lives when they go into combat. What they have not anticipated is that they might be exposed to chemicals or toxins that could cause cancer many years later

“My ex-wife didn’t serve in Vietnam, I did. She wasn’t forced to killed people, I was. She wasn’t the one severely wounded, I was.

Captain May, I am writing for The Washington Examiner, and have come across your posts on the VT website. I can hardly believe the treatment you have endured, and wish to expose the abuse veterans receive from Veterans Administration hospitals. — Sincerely, Samantha Gilman, Opinion Page

HUD now says a 101-year-old Detroit woman it promised could move back into her foreclosed home four months ago can't return to her home because the building's unsanitary and unsafe.

The bumper sticker reads, “I love my country…but I think we should start seeing other people” and recent events lead me to believe it could actually be happening in regards to the “special relationship” between US and Israel.

Just because the holidays are over doesn’t mean that the holiday spirit has left us.

Years later, I found out that the anonymous donor was Romney. Out of his own pocket he did this.

I began this series of articles on the forty facts you should know about why many see America as being on the decline.

This spring, Israel and US will showcase the largest ever missile defense exercise and establish US command posts in Israel and Israeli Forces will occupy EUCOM headquarters in Germany.

I was sent an email by a veteran who had lost his job last summer, and has been searching hard for a place to find work.

The numbers are startling. The VA estimates that 107,000veterans are homeless on any given night. Approximately twice that many will experience homelessness in the course of a year's time.

About 8,000 service members are expected to return to Michigan in coming months from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and state officials say Michigan needs to do more to make sure they receive all the federal benefits they are owed.

I seldom get moved about a movie, or a cause, beyond the confines of my own home, where I take time for my own kids every day, day after day, week after week.

With a government that can't seem to get its act together this is a scary situation, particularly when just in the last five years the number of federal workers earning $150,000 or more a year has soared tenfold and doubled since President Obama took office, a USA TODAY analysis finds, and yet they seek budget cuts in the VA system.

President Obama “intends to hammer the theme of economic justice for ordinary Americans rather than continue his legislative battles with Congressional Republicans. In terms of the president’s relationship with Congress in 2012, the president is no longer tied to Washington, D.C.”

Bubba asked for no recognition and just did all that a 19-year old could do for the war effort

I recently read a story online about a little 8-year old girl from Israel and the trouble she encounters just going to her local elementary school everyday because some ultra-orthodox Jews living in a city called Beit Shemesh take offense to the way she dresses .

The ultimate fire fight is on the battleground of the heart for it is there that we meet our deepest fears and issues of unworthiness.

Every day at the homeless veterans shelter in Boston at ten in the morning there was a huge influx of vets.