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From: gretchen@mail.iava.org
To: booperser@live.com
Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- July 28, 2014
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 08:41:57 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Monday July 28, 2014
Friends of family of deployed unit members react as their C-130 Hercules flies over the 182nd Airlift Wing in Peoria, Ill. About 40 182nd aircrew and maintainers returned home from a deployment to Southwest Asia. They participated in Operation Enduring Freedom while assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing. | Military Times >>
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
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| AFGHANISTAN |
An Afghan official says that a civilian and a border policeman were killed when Taliban insurgents attacked the house of a police chief in the country's restive south. | Associated Press >> A government oversight agency says the Pentagon has lost track of more than 40 percent of the $626 million in firearms it has provided to Afghanistan's security forces, prompting officials to contemplate a "carrot and stick" approach to arming the fledgling military. | Washington Times >>
Staff Sgt. Benjamin G. Prange, 30, of Hickman, Nebraska, and Pfc. Keith M. Williams, 19, of Visalia, California, were killed by an IED blast in Mirugol Kalay in Kandahar Province, the DOD said. | CNN >>
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| IRAQ |
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), the Sunni Muslim insurgent group who swept across northern and western Iraq earlier this year, menacing Baghdad in the process, has commenced the systematic destruction of the country's cultural treasures. | Fox News >> The Obama administration has quietly moved an additional 62 advisers to Iraq over the past three weeks, according to defense officials. The additions bring the total number of advisers in the country to 242, still short of the 300 advisers that President Obama authorized for Iraq last month. | The Hill >>
Bloodshed is escalating in Baghdad as the militant group known as the Islamic State seeks to expand its territory in Iraq. NPR's Eric Westervelt talks to reporter Alice Fordham in Erbil about life under the rule of the radical Islamic group | NPR >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
The crew of the destroyer Frank E. Evans is fighting once again, 45 years after their ship sank in the South China Sea after a terrifying collision. This fight is on behalf of 74 shipmates who died that day in 1969 - and whose names are absent from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial because of what survivors and family members call a technicality. | Military Times >> As the U.S. prepares to withdraw its last combat troops from Afghanistan, the role of Navy "greensiders" and others who have deployed on the ground over the past 13 years can be overlooked when considering the more frequent, and more rigorous, deployments of soldiers and Marines. Now working in hospitals and chapels and aboard ships like this one, they carry a wartime experience that differs from that of their peers and that hasn't redefined their service as it has others. | Stars and Stripes >>
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A U.S. Marine Corps reservist held in a Mexican prison for more than three months on a weapons charge could have been released within days of his detention if not for "missed opportunities" by his original legal counsel, his attorney told CNN. | CNN >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Over two years ago, Sergeant Matt Krumwiede was on patrol in Afghanistan when he stepped on an improvised explosive device which tore away both his legs and left the rest of his body gravely injured. | Reuters >> A coalition of Bay State companies, advocates and veterans is aiming to help vets translate skills they already have to the offices of tech companies. "The goal is to help employers connect more effectively with a growing number of veterans who are reentering the workforce," said Chris Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council and one of the leaders of New England Tech Vets. "No matter what a veteran did in the military, there is an equitable civilian skill." | Boston Herald >>
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Two things unite a special group of 24 of our nation's heroes - traumatic injury and softball. The Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team is made up of veterans and active duty servicemen who served in the Global War on Terrorism. | WJFW NBC >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
The talk in American Legion and Veterans of Foreign War halls and barrooms across Montana has been about Sen. John Walsh since the Democrat linked a cribbed research project he wrote in 2007 to post-traumatic stress disorder. | Associated Press >>
The Pentagon has not yet begun its investigation into the circumstances that led to the capture of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. But the Pentagon explained what it will be looking into and how that could affect the sergeant. | The News Tribune >>
The letter came last month, alerting Mike Pearson that his mother's benefits request had arrived and would be handled with urgency. But, the Department of Veterans Affairs warned, there could be delays. Pearson already knew that. He filed the claim two years earlier. | Philadelphia Inquirer >> |
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