Tag: Veterans

RESEARCH ANSWERS FOR GULF WAR VETERANS Sarin Exposure and Late Onset Heart Damage Having tracked the early deaths of Gulf War Veterans in their 30-50's and...

News- Gulf War Veteran-Desert Storm Veteran Deaths-Never To Be Forgotten Recording of 8 more deaths of Desert Storm Veterans(2 from Sept).  Count for October stands...

A prestigious, national college is searching for a “hands on” Assistant Administrator of Continuing Professional Education. Entry level candidates with no prior direct experience are encouraged to apply. The roll requires an “eager beaver” with an intense burning desire, tireless energy, dedication and commitment to surmount the tremendous challenges and work load.

A prestigious, national college is searching for a “hands on” Assistant Administrator of Continuing Professional Education. Entry level candidates with no prior direct experience are encouraged to apply. The roll requires an “eager beaver” with an intense burning desire, tireless energy, dedication and commitment to surmount the tremendous challenges and work load.

Blue Buttons and Mushrooms By Bruce Burgess STAFF WRITER   The VA is telling me that I have another new resource available to me.  This new...

Veterans Honor Desert Storm Veterans' Deaths I have the files for missing months and will be posting them in memory as I can catch up. ...

Vietnam and Gulf War Veteran Walking Point from Texas to DC Veterans What IS Going On? This was a story I saved from the end of...

My cohort from Canada notified me of a very important video today.  Canada Gulf War Veterans Under Friendly Fire  apparently when you speak out...

"THE SUICIDE BLUES ARE BREAKIN' UP THAT OLE GAME O' MINE" By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor They always march off to war, fanfare, flags, speeches,...

BUREACYCRACY AND DISTRUST By Dale R. Suiter STAFF WRITER Working with Vets of different ages on an individual basis is rewarding. When a Vet "FINALLY" receives...

As veterans are aware, there is only one place they can turn to correct errors on their DD-214’s, or, there military records. Each branch of the military has what is known as a “ BOARD FOR CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS “. The law governing said BOARDS is TITLE 10, Section 1552.

- U.S. Army: It’s not war; the “risky behavior” of our troops at home drives them to suicide. Did you know that a solider...

Gulf War Veterans Study Recent Developments re Civilians with CFS/ME and XMRV Research:  Why? Unanswered Questions Continue For Ill Gulf War Veterans As They Do...

Thousands of our kids are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan carrying the enormous weight of the emotional baggage picked up during their experience of war. This is nothing new, we brought back the same cargo from Vietnam, Korea and WW2. All wars provide their participants with a dismal tide of dark memories, the material of a lifetime of tortured nightmares.

Maybe a bit dated, not a year yet but should provocate some discussion with the Gulf War Veterans and our CFS civilians.  Interesting research...

Exciting Days for CFS Patients who keep pushing science to answer their questions!  Lessons to be learned by Gulf War Veterans who are ill! WE have 1-4...

- U.S. Army Sergeant Ayman A. Ibrahim's intelligence directly led to the capture of Saddam Hussein. Ibrahim speaks out now as a Muslim for...

Veterans have many supporters in our country but none more than Ms. Kelly Trudell, her band and support staff. My wife and I have...

Today, the President’s Interagency Council on Veterans Employment was briefed by U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director John Berry, Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Scott Gould, and Department of Labor's Assistant Secretary for Veteran’s Employment and Training, Ray Jefferson, to inform them that thousands more veterans have been hired by federal agencies since last November when President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13518, Employment of Veterans in the Federal Government, and established the Veterans Employment Initiative. Also at the briefing, the council adopted a more aggressive new benchmark for veteran hiring among federal agencies.

I did attend the Salt Lake City conference on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia this past Saturday my recommendation has already been made to the...

Today, the White House, Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs jointly released a new web video in which President Obama encourages active duty troops and veterans whose service in Iraq or Afghanistan was involuntarily extended or retirement was suspended due to ‘stop loss’ to apply for the special retroactive pay to which they are entitled. Under legislation President Obama signed into law last year, servicemen and women who served between September 11, 2001 and September 30, 2009 and whose service was extended due to ‘stop loss’ are eligible for $500 per month in retroactive pay for each month their service was extended.

SURVIVING VETERAN'S HEALTH CARE By Dale R. Suiter STAFF WRITER Many of us experience frustration in trying to contact and cope with the Veterans Administration. Helpfull...

MEDICAL ADVANCES: UNDERSTANDING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES (TBIs) By Texas Vet, First Cavalry  Decades ago, I got blown up—literally outside a tin can sh*t and shower hut...

TATE, Incorporated was founded in 1994 to provide support to the high-risk operator, specifically focusing on personnel recovery. With approximately 400 employees, TATE is now the nation's leading contractor providing Personnel Recovery (PR) plans and operations, Peacetime Governmental Detention (PGD), Hostage Detention (HD), and other sensitive training support to the U.S. government. TATE's current customers include the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Defense Intelligence Agency, and other governmental agencies.

A DEBT, NOT A GIFT By Joe "Ragman" Tarnovsky STAFF WRITER Veterans are patriotic to a fault. Even when we see and hear politicians and bureaucrats...

SUPPORT TROOPS By Dale R. Suiter STAFF WRITER History offers many examples of military personnel fielded as infantry when America's combat arms are hard pressed in...

CONGRESS PLANS "STEALTH ATTACK" ON VETERANS BENEFITS By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor A week ago, we marched out of Iraq, leaving 50,000 "administrative" troops and...

News on Treatment Potential For XMRV,  Will It Help Ill Gulf War Veterans? News by means of a new abstract on treatment potentials for XMRV...

Update:  See also Prudential defends armed service members payout practices. Via the AP and Raw Story Dead soldiers' parents sue insurer Prudential over interest paid on...

Movement on New Retrovirus is Rapid! Mystery Deepens on XMRV Now SAIC Shows Involvement From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access ...

Gulf War Illness newest study by Dr Haley is hot off the press.  More scientific proof of damage done to gulf war veterans.  The question...

- One suicide every 36 hours - Contradicting  the U.S. Army's suicide prevention report, an independent DoD report released this week failed to place the blame for...

The search for the real story on the scientific paper published on Monday in the PNAS continues.  I have to, must refer all to...

Radiation and CFIDS Potential Connection Pieces of the puzzle continue to be discussed in widening circles of concerned and ill veterans and civilians.  See the...

In reviewing obituaries and talking to several widows of Gulf War Veterans that suffered with unknown illnesses or had died of cardiac events or...

Gulf War Veterans Twenty Year Anniversary Reunions The article purpose today is to take time to regroup, reevaluate lessons learned, and update Causes of our gulf war...

 -  " was going to be different, and that it was going to be house-to-house and urban combat. And that type of warfare requires...

The Senate Veterans Affairs committee list a couple of hearings for September so far Legislative Presentation: The American Legion Date: Wed Sep 22 2010, 9:30 AM,...

Schedule of Hearings for House Veterans Affairs for September Heads up ALL. It is critically important that veterans stay alert on hearing topics and get...

 - Nation refuses to recognize veterans as a predictable and worthy cost of war. Eye-opening research by Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes and Nobel laureate...

VA study spending questioned by Janice Gibbs | Medical Writer Published: August 11, 2010 Two legislators are asking the Department of Veterans Affairs how the Central Texas...

For some veterans, however, the struggle to secure compensation for service-induced trauma continues unabated