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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- July 21, 2014
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 07:31:28 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Monday July 21, 2014
Marine Capt. Christopher Hall and Cub Scout Brayden Scott tag one of what will eventually be 620,000 ceremonial trees, each commemorating a Civil War soldier who fell in battle. | Military Times >>
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Medal of Honor recipient wants son to know about outpost attack
Years from now, his son will want to know. Perhaps the question will arise after a grade school friend repeats something a parent said. Or maybe young Lucas Pitts will see the medal and wonder what it's for. | Stars and Stripes >>Obama awards more Medals of Honor to modern veterans - but it takes longer, too
When President Obama drapes the Medal of Honor around the neck of Army Staff Sgt. Ryan J. Pitts on Monday, it will symbolize all of the heroism and sacrifice that occurred in a ferocious battle in Afghanistan. But it will represent something else, too: a dramatic rise in the amount of time it takes for troops to be honored with the nation's highest award for combat valor. | Washington Post >>
Bottlenecks in Training Doctors
The New York Times Editorial Board writes: The new head of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Sloan Gibson, told a Senate committee last week that he needed $17.6 billion over the next three years to hire some 1,500 doctors, 8,500 nurses and other clinicians to reduce the unconscionably long waiting times that many veterans now endure before they are able to see a doctor. | New York Times >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
Afghanistan's disputed election and Iraq's unraveling are giving members of Congress and U.S. allies in the region reason to think President Barack Obama should rethink his decision to withdraw virtually all Americans troops from Afghanistan by the close of 2016. | Associated Press >> Afghanistan's election commission has suspended an audit of votes from June's hotly-disputed presidential run-off. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said this was due to a "misunderstanding",without elaborating. | BBC >>
Members of the Army's 10th Mountain Division held their own run in Afghanistan on Friday in support of Saturday's Run to Home Base event in Boston. The effort was spearheaded by Captain Lukasz Willenberg, the division's chaplain and an avid runner. Gear and winners' medals were provided by the Corvias Foundation charity group. | Boston Globe >>
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| IRAQ |
Ten years after he left, a once-proud soldier returns to a city on the brink of civil war to confront the madness America created and the sadness, violence and chaos we left behind. | Rolling Stone >>Thousands of foreign fighters have bolstered the ranks of militant groups in Syria and Iraq in recent months, according to U.S. officials, driving fresh concern about potential terrorist plots aimed at the United States or its allies. | LA Times >>
The message played over loudspeakers gave the Christians of Iraq's second-largest city until midday Saturday to make a choice: convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death. By the time the deadline imposed by the Islamic State extremist group expired, the vast majority of Christians in Mosul had made their decision. They fled. | Fox News >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
Two hundred miles southeast of Denver, in a meander of the Arkansas River, is an old military base called Fort Lyon. It was once a prison, once a hospital, once an asylum, but for the past 10 months it has been a refuge for people - especially veterans - struggling with homelessness, and in many cases addiction and mental illness. | Washington Post >> Few actors could register disbelief, exasperation or annoyance with more comic subtlety. James Garner had a way of widening his eyes while the corner of his mouth sagged ever so slightly. Maybe he would swallow once to further make his point. | Associated Press >>
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The Air Force is examining several anomalies that occurred during Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s three civilian space flights as part of its review of billionaire Elon Musk's quest to launch military satellites. | Bloomberg >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Chad Pfeifer, who lost his left leg above the knee while serving in Iraq, earned a Stableford total of 24 points Friday to take the first-round lead over a group including former LPGA great Annika Sorenstam and Warriors guard Stephen Curry at the American Century Championship, a celebrity tournament in Stateline, Nev. | Associated Press >>
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Tommy Lee Kidman always wore a smile. His two daughters, Gracie and Madeline were the "light of his eyes," friends say, and he had an artistic side - he drew, wrote, played the guitar. But Afghanistan changed him. On the front lines, the Army medic saw death and desolation, fellow soldiers whose wounds he could not heal. The memories tormented him on sleepless nights and led to fits of rage back in the US. | Boston Globe >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Ruell, a 39-year-old from Philadelphia, became a national voice in the call for accountability at the Department of Veterans Affairs last week when she spoke before Congress about mismanagement at the Germantown VA center where she works. | Philadelphia Inquirer >>
A Veterans Affairs Department official who retired last month as head of the agency's cemetery network gave preferential treatment to a contractor and created a special position for a friend, among other troubling practices, according to a federal watchdog report. | Washington Post >>
A program that allows veterans with traumatic brain injuries to receive treatment in assisted living facilities is in danger of closing down. With only two weeks to go before the August recess, Congress has yet to take action on legislation that would renew the pilot program before it expires on Sept. 30. | The Hill >> |
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