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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- July 17, 2014
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 07:26:33 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Thursday July 17, 2014
Harper Allen, 2, of Downers Grove, Ill., stands on the back of an Army Reserve Humvee belonging to the 416th Theater Engineer Command during the Touch a Truck community event hosted by the Village of Willowbrook, Parks and Recreation Department. | Military Times >>
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
VA chief: Agency has lost trust of vets, public
The Department of Veterans Affairs has lost the trust of veterans and the American people as a result of widespread treatment delays for people seeking health care and falsified records to cover up those delays, the agency's top official said Wednesday. | Associated Press >> VA boss plans 'personnel action' this week in wait-list case
Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson said he is frustrated and expects to have a plan in place to take "personnel actions" against employees responsible for manipulating patient wait lists at one VA medical center by the end of this week. He wouldn't identify the location of the center, but said it is not the Phoenix facility that has been at the epicenter of a wait-list scandal. | CNN >>
V.A. Official Says Fixing Issues at Root of Waiting-List Scandal Will Cost Billions
Fixing the problems that led to the waiting-list scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs will cost $17.6 billion over the next three years, the agency's acting secretary told lawmakers Wednesday, requiring the hiring of about 1,500 doctors and 8,500 nurses and other clinicians. | New York Times >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
Somber and reflective, Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says his country was on the verge of a "very serious, serious situation" before he struck a U.S.-brokered deal with his rival to avert the crisis by holding a fully audited vote count. | Associated Press >>
Check out the photograph above. That's a C-130 that the United States sent to Afghanistan to be used by the country's fledgling air force. It's meant to assist the country with its air lift needs as it takes over its security mission from coalition forces entirely by the end of the year. | Washington Post >>Afghanistan on Wednesday revised down the casualty figure from a car bomb attack in the eastern province of Paktika to 43 from 89, saying at least 74 people had been wounded. | Reuters >>
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| IRAQ |
Iraqi troops and their militia and volunteer allies were on the verge of declaring victory over Sunni militants holding the strategic town of Tikrit and were about to hoist the Iraqi flag over key government buildings, when, a survivor recalled Wednesday, "the doors of hell opened." | New York Times >>
The head of the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday that he was increasingly frustrated with Iraq's skyrocketing number of displaced people - and with governments worldwide that expect humanitarian aid organizations to "come clean up the mess." | Washington Post >> During a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on Iran, experts testified that the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011 served to embolden Iran. Ray Takeyh, a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, told Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R., Ill.), "I would say the general departure of the United States from the region and general hesitancy has emboldened Iran." | Washington Free Beacon >>
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
New procedures to treat massive blood loss from combat injuries are saving lives, according to a new study in JAMA Surgery. The study's authors said there is a "general belief" that the procedures, known as damage control resuscitation or DCR, represents "one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our current conflicts." | Military Times >> About 300 soldiers from the Army's 10th Mountain Division are back with their families after a nine-month deployment to Afghanistan. Members of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team were welcomed back to Fort Drum in northern New York in a brief ceremony Tuesday afternoon. It's the second group of 3rd Brigade Combat Team members to return home out of about 2,100 deployed to Regional Command-East to help develop the Afghan National Security Forces. | Stars and Stripes >>
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Sgt. Terry Mitchell withstood fire deep in the mountains of Vietnam and was exposed to Agent Orange. He survived that grisly war, but now, four decades later, his wife believes his life was cut short by delays in care at the Veterans Administration. | CNN >>
U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl has a new lawyer to defend him as the Army investigates the circumstances surrounding his kidnapping by the Taliban in 2009. And the former hostage wants President Obama to know that he is grateful the U.S. government traded five Taliban commanders in exchange for his release in May. | The Daily Beast >>
The old railroad track, now a bike and jogging path, winds through the forest that separates Camp Lejeune from Highway 24, which caters to the thousands of Marines stationed here with cheap barbershops that will trim your high-and-tight for $5, furniture stores for the many young families on base, a couple of gun shops, a few bars and the requisite jiggle joint. | Newsweek >>
The Army has lost an initial Senate skirmish over a hotly disputed plan to take Apache attack helicopters away from National Guard units in a budget-cutting move that has infuriated governors and state military leaders. | Associated Press >>
A pot of money created to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is critically needed for other U.S. military offensive operations around the world, Adm. Sandy Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told House lawmakers Wednesday. | Stars and Stripes >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Passing by, you'd never suspect the classroom in the Center for Economic Development at the Texas A&M Mays Business School was any different. 25 students, sitting at desks, eagerly soaking up information. It might appear normal, but you'd be wrong. Each student is a veteran with a disability. | KBTX College Station >>
Maine first lady Ann LePage will skydive alongside quadruple amputee and veteran, Travis Mills, to help raise money for those who have served in the military. | Associated Press >>
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A couple of weeks ago, Army Staff Sgt. James Harrington was reunited with his partner, Ryky, a Belgian malinois bomb-sniffing military dog that he had parted ways with almost three years ago after the two served a couple of tours of duty together in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now, instead of detecting underground bombs in the desert, sometimes with bullets and shrapnel in the air, Ryky spends her time diving into Lake Pontchartrain from the Mandeville sea wall to retrieve a ball thrown by Harrington. | The Times-Picayune >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
After the Veterans Affairs Department scandal broke back in May, there were a lot of proposals to fix the agency, and there was a bipartisan push to make the changes a reality. But in the weeks and months since, that momentum has slowed amid international, border and funding crises. Still, the push for a VA overhaul continues as a bicameral, bipartisan conference committee seeks to iron out the differences between reform bills passed in the House and Senate. | Defense One >>
A new Department of Veterans Affairs scandal emerged this week as VA employees and an independent investigator said the agency made old benefits claims appear new by altering their dates. | Washington Post >>
A few weeks ago, it would have been unthinkable that Congress would leave for August recess without sending a VA health care bill to President Barack Obama's desk. But Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would not rule out that possibility of gridlock over how to alleviate the crisis at the Department of Veterans Affairs as House and Senate conferees continue to talk. | Roll Call >> |
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