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2013/06/17 17:02
2013/06/17 17:02
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The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that it met its goal to hire 1,600 new mental health professionals. 18 new hires occurred at the VA Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System. The...
2013/06/17 17:02
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2013/06/16 12:04
2013/06/16 12:04
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - When the Common Council voted on a costly new fee targeting some businesses in his district, Councilor Nader Maroun was absent. For weeks, small business owners had pleaded with...
2013/06/14 22:20
2013/06/14 22:20
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In the two decades since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, medical researchers have struggled to explain a mysterious amalgam of problems in thousands of Gulf War veterans, including joint pain, physical...
2013/06/14 17:06
2013/06/14 17:06
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Eric K. Shinseki, the nation's secretary of Veterans Affairs, said the new spinal cord injury center at the Syracuse VA Medical Center will help continue to repay what he called the...
2013/06/14 03:13
2013/06/14 03:13
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DANVILLE — The Department of Veterans Affairs has met the goal to hire 1,600 new mental health professionals. At the Veterans Affairs Illiana Health Care System, 13 mental health professionals have...
2013/06/11 20:09
2013/06/11 20:09
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An armoured U.S. Marine vehicle is enveloped in smoke after it was hit by an IED roadside bomb attack during a patrol of Now Zad district in Helmand province, southwestern Afghanistan. (Erik De...
2013/06/06 10:51
2013/06/06 10:51
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BREAKING OVERNIGHT: After months of unsettling tensions, North and South Korea tentatively agreed Thursday to hold talks about reopening their shared manufacturing zone where Pyongyang halted...
2013/05/30 22:34
2013/05/30 22:34
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About 145 veterans living in the streets and in shelters in South Florida will soon have a permanent home, part of an ambitious national campaign to end veteran homelessness in two years. Federal...
2013/05/29 20:48
2013/05/29 20:48
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Despite the scandal over a series of troubling deaths at the Atlanta VA Medical Center, a review by Channel 2 Action News shows the hospital isn't short on cash. The federal government is being...
2013/05/29 02:54
2013/05/29 02:54
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 8:45pm Washington (U.S. Army) — At the Ninth Annual Night of Heroes Gala a garrison commander, a former Army chief of staff and an Army spouse received top honors from...
2013/05/27 10:20
2013/05/27 10:20
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This Memorial Day is punctuated by one other scandal in the Obama administration. The inability of the Department of Veterans Affairs to process disability and related claims of our nation’s veterans...
2013/05/26 06:22
2013/05/26 06:22
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The Departments of Veterans Affairs (VA), Defense (DoD) and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the progress made to date on initiatives called for in President Obama’s Aug. 31, 2012, Executive...
2013/05/26 00:16
2013/05/26 00:16
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Five years ago, we wrote in this space about a fledgling new program at the College of William and Mary Law School that would train students in the law while helping military veterans at the same...
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2013/05/25 23:31
2013/05/25 23:31
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The average wait to process a claim now is 125 days, but many veterans have been waiting two years or longer. Changes to speed things up have been inadequate in the extreme. Mandatory overtime seems...
2013/05/24 10:15
2013/05/24 10:15
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Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month was celebrated on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall May 22 at the community center. This year’s theme is “Building Leadership: Embracing Cultural Values...
2013/05/23 03:20
2013/05/23 03:20
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For Tom Bender, fighting for his fellow veterans means more than showing up once a year in Washington for an awe-inspiring motorcycle rally. The Vietnam combat veteran and head of Rolling Thunder...
2013/05/19 06:22
2013/05/19 06:22
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WASHINGTON, DC – As part of its ongoing effort to accelerate the elimination of the disability compensation claims backlog, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced that it is mandating overtime...
2013/05/16 23:01
2013/05/16 23:01
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WASHINGTON � The Department of Veterans Affairs has launched a new hotline � 1-855-VA-WOMEN � to receive and respond to questions from veterans, their families and caregivers about the many VA...