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More Medical Mistakes at VA Clinics
Associated Press - Sun May 17, 2009
Federal officials have been warning thousands of former patients they might have been exposed to infection at three Veterans Affairs facilities, yet other VA patients are not being warned about less serious mistakes with the same equipment at more than a dozen other VA centers. More»

Vet Released from VA with IV Still in his Arm
WXPI-TV - Tue May 12, 2009
PITTSBURGH - A mother is up in arms after her son, a Vietnam veteran, is returned home from the hospital still wearing a gown and IV needle in his arm. More»

Army officials claim war concussions "overdiagnosed"
Associated Press - Tue Apr 14, 2009
ATLANTA - Mild brain injuries - once considered an under-recognized problem in returning military troops - are being overdiagnosed because the government is using soft criteria instead of hard medical evidence, an Army doctor and two other officials contend. More»

"I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD"
Salon.com - Wed Apr 8, 2009
A secret recording reveals the Army may be pushing its medical staff not to diagnose post-traumatic stress disorder. More»

Army manual raises emphasis on electronic warfare
Associated Press - Tue Feb 24, 2009
FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kansas - For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the Army is updating its plans for electronic warfare, calling for more use of high-powered microwaves, lasers and infrared beams to attack enemy targets and control angry crowds. More»

Army charity hoards millions
Associated Press - Sun Feb 22, 2009
FORT BLISS, Texas - As soldiers stream home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the biggest charity inside the US military has been stockpiling tens of millions of dollars meant to help put returning fighters back on their feet, an Associated Press investigation shows. More»

Obama reviewing ban on photos of military coffins
Associated Press - Mon Feb 9, 2009
President Barack Obama said Monday he is considering whether to overturn a Pentagon policy that bans the media from taking pictures of the flag-draped coffins of US troops returning from the battlefield. More»

Army suicides at 3-decade high
Associated Press - Wed Jan 28, 2009
WASHINGTON - Suicides among US soldiers rose last year to the highest level in decades, the Army announced Thursday. More»

Hudson River hero is ex-Air Force fighter pilot
Associated Press - Thu Jan 15, 2009
NEW YORK - The pilot who guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River - saving all 155 people aboard - became an instant hero Thursday, with accolades from the mayor and governor and a fan club online. More»

Vets sue CIA, Defense over military experiments
Associated Press - Wed Jan 7, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Six veterans who claim they were unwittingly exposed to dangerous chemicals and germs during government-sponsored Cold War experiments have sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies. More»

Judge won't intervene in veteran disability dispute
CNN - Wed Dec 17, 2008
A federal judge has refused to intervene in a dispute over delays in paying disability benefits by the Department of Veterans Affairs. More»

Veterans left homeless due to state budget cuts
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sat Nov 29, 2008
This is moving day: Michael Seamands cramped home for the past five years is no longer his. The landlord, the state of Georgia, says he has to go. More»

Injured veterans engaged in new combat
Los Angeles Times - Tue Nov 25, 2008
In a little-noticed regulation change, the Pentagons definition of combat-related disabilities is narrowed, costing some wounded veterans thousands of dollars in lost benefits. More»

Gulf War vet health research lacking
Associated Press - Fri Nov 14, 2008
WASHINGTON - Even as possibly hundreds of thousands of veterans suffer from a collection of symptoms commonly called Gulf War illness, the government has done too little to find treatments for their health problems nearly two decades after the war ended, a panel commissioned by Congress said. More»

General bucks culture of silence on mental health
Associated Press - Sat Nov 8, 2008
WASHINGTON - It takes a brave soldier to do what Army Major Geneneral David Blackledge did in Iraq. More»

Speak Out, Lose Job
USA Today - Wed Aug 20, 2008
Speaking up in the military can be hazardous to the health of your career, even when its done to help wounded soldiers or the families of fallen warriors. More»

Ruling protects Arizonan who sells anti-war shirts
Associated Press - Tue Aug 19, 2008
PHOENIX - A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops killed in Iraq. More»

Suicide hot line got calls from 22,000 veterans
Associated Press - Sun Jul 27, 2008
More than 22,000 veterans have sought help from a special suicide hot line in its first year, and 1,221 suicides have been averted, the government says. More»

Soldier in famous photo never defeated 'demons'
Associated Press - Sat Jul 19, 2008
PINEHURST, North Carolina - Officers had been to the white ranch house at 560 West Longleaf many times before over the past year to respond to a "barricade situation". More»

VA denies money a factor in PTSD diagnoses
Associated Press - Tue Jun 3, 2008
A Veterans Affairs psychologist denies that she was trying to save money when she suggested that counselors make fewer diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder in injured soldiers. More»

Marine who died after cross-state chase wrote of war stress
Associated Press - Fri May 16, 2008
TUCSON, Arizona - Last month, Marine Staff Sgt Travis N "T-Bo" Twiggs went to the White House with a group of Iraq war veterans called the Wounded Warriors Regiment and met the president. More»

E-mail from VA worker says to avoid PTSD diagnosis
Associated Press - Thu May 15, 2008
An internal e-mail written by a Veterans Affairs Department employee suggested avoiding a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder for veterans and instead considering a diagnosis that might result in a lower disability payment. More»

Number of disabled veterans rising
Associated Press - Sat May 10, 2008
Increasing numbers of US troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the nation billions for decades to come - even as the total population of Americas vets shrinks. More»

VA blasted over veterans suicides
CNN - Mon May 5, 2008
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Veterans Committee blasted the Veterans Affairs Department on Tuesday, accusing the agency of criminal failure to respond to evidence of rising suicide rates among former soldiers. More»

Vets say they feel misled about GI benefits
CNN - Mon Apr 28, 2008
Cheated - Baited and switched - Thats how veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on how the GI Bill would benefit them. More»

Army widens probe after finding bad conditions at Fort Bragg
Associated Press - Mon Apr 28, 2008
Army officials said Tuesday they are inspecting every barracks building worldwide to see whether plumbing and other problems revealed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, last week are widespread. More»

Gulf War ills tied to chemical exposure
Associated Press - Sun Mar 9, 2008
WASHINGTON - Increasing evidence ties pesticides and other chemicals to some, not all, of the Gulf War illnesses that afflict thousands of veterans of the 1991 war, says an analysis published Monday. More»

Water makes US troops in Iraq sick
Associated Press - Sat Mar 8, 2008
Dozens of US troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheneys former company, the Pentagons internal watchdog says. More»

U.S. troops buy own gear for safety
Christian Science Monitor - Thu Mar 6, 2008
FORT BENNING, Georgia - Commando Military Supply on Victory Drive here is about as different from a musty Army surplus store as you can imagine. More»

Why does Johnny come marching homeless?
Associated Press - Fri Jan 18, 2008
LEEDS, Massachusetts - Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran. More»

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