Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families

on 25/04/2010 posted by Mikie in News, Comments (0)

Report Preliminary Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families Released: March 31, 2010 Consensus Report  :  Institute of Medicine Report Nearly 1.9 million U.S. […]

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Veterans film fellow vets coming home…

on posted by Mikie in News, Comments (0)

War Veterans: Clint Van Winkle (l.) watches as cameraman Jon Dunham films David Paxson being tattooed at a parlor near Philadelphia with a ‘battlefield cross’ in honor of a […]

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Turning Our Backs on Heroes…

on 17/04/2010 posted by Mikie in News, Comments (0)

Here is an article by Bob Herbert in the NY Times, a good reminder to all of us about the price being paid by many veterans – and it doesn’t […]

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Soldier Who Refused Afghan Tour Released

on 14/04/2010 posted by Mikie in News, Comments (0)

 Source: The Olympian ( see below link )  “Pvt. Travis Bishop left his jail cell at Joint Base Lewis-McChord last week with no job, a criminal conviction and […]

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Shinseki Vows to Reduce VA’s Claims Backlog

on posted by Mikie in Educational, News, Comments (0)

By Donna Miles American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 6, 2010 – Prioritizing the work ahead shortly after his first anniversary on the job, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. […]

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The Sandbox…..

on posted by Mikie in Blogs, Comics, Educational, Comments (0)

 Welcome to The Sandbox, our command-wide milblog, featuring comments, anecdotes, and observations from service members currently deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is GWOT-lit’s forward position, offering those in-country […]

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Gulf War Veterans: The VA Takes Important First Steps

on 31/03/2010 posted by Mikie in News, Comments (0)

Gulf War Veterans: The VA Takes Important First Steps Wednesday 31 March 2010 by: Paul Sullivan and Anthony Hardie, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed  […]

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No magic solution

on 24/03/2010 posted by Judith in News, Comments (0)

Loyd Sawyer makes progress, but finds no one pill, method or therapy can soothe his PTSD By Kelly Kennedy – Staff writer Posted : Wednesday Mar 24, 2010 13:04:52 EDT […]

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A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person

on 27/02/2010 posted by Mikie in News, Comments (0)

By ELISABETH BUMILLER Published: February 7, 2010  WASHINGTON — Brian Turner was focused on staying alive, not poetry, when he served as an infantry team leader in Iraq. But […]

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Distant Wars, Constant Ghosts

on 26/02/2010 posted by Mikie in News, Comments (0)

February 22, 2010, 8:30 pm  By SHANNON P. MEEHAN  SINCE the two recent NATO-led military strikes that accidentally killed dozens of Afghan civilians, I have been thinking a […]

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