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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- July 29, 2014
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:36:27 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Tuesday July 29, 2014
Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III takes a selfie with soldiers with Bravo Company of the 244th Quartermaster Battalion from Fort Lee, Va., after practice at the team's NFL football training facility in Richmond, Va. | Military Times >>
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Lawmakers Unveil $17 Billion Fix for Veterans Affairs
House and Senate negotiators unveiled a $17 billion package Monday to begin addressing long wait times and mismanagement at the Department of Veterans Affairs, a down payment on a broader reassessment of how the agency provides care to veterans. | Wall Street Journal >> Negotiators predict easy passage of bill to overhaul Department of Veterans Affairs
A sweeping proposal to revamp the Department of Veterans Affairs and the nation's medical care for military veterans should have enough support to pass the House and Senate this week before lawmakers leave town for a summer recess, lead negotiators said Monday. | Washington Post >>
How the VA deal came together
Top negotiators on a deal to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs turned to an unusual strategy that helped them arrive at Monday's agreement: knock-down, drag-out arguing. Just last week, talks appeared on the verge of collapse as the leaders of a conference committee - Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) - publicly slugged it out over differences on how to pay for the bill. Miller said Sanders was hurling "grenades" at Republicans rather than negotiating while Sanders called the GOP's behavior "sad." | Politico >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
Another day, another report of rampant waste of U.S. taxpayer money in the effort to rebuild Afghanistan. John Sopko, the inspector general charged with monitoring aid sent by the U.S. to Afghanistan, has identified potentially billions of dollars wasted in Afghanistan, including donation of planes the local government doesn't need or can't use, weapons that disappear as soon as they're handed over and and construction of brand new buildings that are basically firetraps. In a steady stream of audit reports, Sopko's office of Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, has spotlighted seemingly endless waste in the war-torn nation. | Fox News >>Since 2004, the United States has supplied the fledgling Afghan Nation Security Forces with everything from uniforms to transport aircraft, but a new inspector general report finds that officials might have lost track of more than 43 percent of the 474,823 small arms supplied to the ANSF. | Washington Post >>
A Fort Hood soldier from Wisconsin has died from an illness suffered during his deployment to Afghanistan. The Defense Department says 20-year-old Pfc. Donnell Antwain Hamilton Jr. of Kenosha, Wisconsin, died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. | Associated Press >>
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| IRAQ |
Residents of Mosul have watched helplessly as extremists ruling the northern Iraqi city blew up some of their most beloved landmarks and shrines to impose a stark vision of Islam. Next up for destruction, they feared: the Crooked Minaret, a more than 840-year-old tower that leans like Italy's Tower of Pisa. | Associated Press >>
Salman Khaled has already lived through Baghdad's sectarian disintegration; with Iraq now splintering into Shi'ite, Sunni Arab and Kurdish regions, he says this time the survival of the country is at stake. | Reuters >>The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned any sale of oil from Syria or Iraq by terrorist groups and reminded all countries that buying this illegally obtained oil violates U.N. sanctions. | Associated Press >>
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
This is not the time to talk about reducing the number of F-15 fighter jets in Europe, given the situation in Ukraine, according to the new commander of the 48th Fighter Wing, which flies the only F15s in Europe. | Stars and Stripes >> Former Staff Sgt. Ryan M. Pitts became the third living "Sky Soldier" from the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team to receive the Medal of Honor in the past four years. Pitts joined Sgt. Kyle White and former Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta as the members of the 173rd who make up a group of just nine living recipients of the Medal of Honor from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. | Military.com >>
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The Navy will send new stealth destroyers, littoral combat ships and an amphibious ready group to the Pacific, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Monday, reiterating the U.S. commitment to its military "pivot" to the region. | Stars and Stripes >>
Schools known for their flexible learning options are by far the most popular among both active-duty service members using tuition assistance and veterans and their dependents using the Post-9/11 GI Bill, government data show. | Navy Times >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
After practice on Military Appreciation Day at Washington Redskins training camp, the special teams coordinator made a beeline to the people in uniform near the special VIP tent. Ben Kotwica used to be one of them. He was a helicopter pilot who flew more than 1,000 combat missions during the Iraq War. He now works with men who play games. NFL players love to speak of "battle" and "war" on the playing field; Kotwica knows the real thing. | Army Times >> Cloudy, no-sunburn skies, a light breeze, flat water and a fishing rod. At one Butler County hospital, they call that "therapy." For some 30 years, VA Butler Healthcare, part of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, has prescribed off-campus participatory recreation therapy for some soldiers, sailors and airmen recovering from traumatic injuries, drug or alcohol addiction, brain injuries, chronic diseases and other health care issues. Since 2011, the therapy has included fishing from pontoon boats on Lake Arthur at Moraine State Park. | Pittsburgh Post- Gazette >>
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Some veterans are finding a new way to serve their country after separating from the military - they're leaving battlefields for farm fields. With a rising overall population but a declining number of U.S. farmers, America may find veteran farmers are just what it needs to keep everyone supplied with top-quality food. And the farming industry and its advocacy groups are welcoming those veterans into a field that is desperate to develop a new generational backbone. | Navy Times >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Lawmakers in the House and Senate unveiled an agreement Monday to reform the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs by pumping $17 billion in emergency funding into expanded access to outside care as well as more doctors, nurses and health care facilities. | Stars and Stripes >>
After calling on President Obama to send 1,000 National Guard troops to the Texas-Mexico border until more U.S. Border Patrol agents can be trained, Perry used his authority as governor to do precisely that. The Texas Army and Air National Guard will establish outposts from which they can alert law enforcement if they see people crossing the border. | Army Times >>
Personnel at Ann Arbor's Veterans Affairs facility may have failed to use an in-house scheduling system correctly, potentially forcing patients to wait longer for appointments. A May audit of the hospital also indicated outside logs may have been used to schedule appointments, a practice which could violate VA policies. | Detroit Free Press >> |
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