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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- July 30, 2014
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 08:40:11 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Wednesday July 30, 2014
Marines fast-rope from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter July 18 at the Central Training Area, Okinawa, Japan, during a Marine Expeditionary Unit exercise. The training scenario called for the 31st MEU's Battalion Landing Team to insert via aircraft into a landing zone near a simulated hostile village to seize and capture high-value individuals. | Military Times >>
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
Senate Confirms Obama's Choice to Lead V.A.
The Senate voted unanimously on Tuesday to confirm Robert A. McDonald, the 61-year-old former chief executive of Procter & Gamble, to take the helm of the sprawling and embattled Department of Veterans Affairs after a scandal over the manipulation of patient wait-time data led to the ouster two months ago of Eric Shinseki. | New York Times >>Veterans bill on pathway for passage
A $17 billion bill to revamp the Veterans Affairs Department appears likely to clear both the House and Senate this week. While a handful of Republicans in both chambers have raised objections, lawmakers said the legislation is on a path for passage despite the fact that it would add $12 billion to the deficit. | The Hill >>
House set to take up $17B VA overhaul bill
With a new Veterans Affairs secretary in place and an August recess looming, Congress is likely to move quickly to approve a compromise bill to refurbish the VA and improve veterans' health care. | Army Times >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
It was a homecoming of sorts for Lt. Col. Paul Larson, returning to this remote corner of southern Afghanistan at the twilight of America's longest war. He was back to take stock of a slice of the battlefield that seemed brimming with possibility when he last led soldiers here a decade ago. | Washington Post >>
As of Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at least 2,197 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. At least 1,819 military service members have died in Afghanistan as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. | News Observer >> When the Defense Department began shipping a a new fleet of massive armored vehicles to Afghanistan in 2011, U.S. officials billed them as the Afghan National Army's solution for rapidly sending troops into dangerous situations to reinforce fellow soldiers. The Mobile Strike Force Vehicles are based on the aging M117 armored personnel carrier that has been used since Vietnam, but with beefed up armor to defend against rocket-propelled grenades and other threats. | Washington Post >>
Hashmat Khalil Karzai, a cousin of President Hamid Karzai and a powerful supporter of the presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, was killed by a suicide bomber in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as he greeted well-wishers at his home, government officials and a witness said. | New York Times >>
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| IRAQ |
Ever since U.S. forces invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003, the U.S. government has worried that Iraq would splinter into three states - each representing the feuding religious and ethnic factions the dictator held together through his iron rule. It may no longer be necessary to worry that Iraq will break apart. In many ways, it already has. | USA Today >>The Pentagon signaled Tuesday that it is mulling its largest ever shipment of Hellfire missiles to Iraq as the government in Baghdad digs itself in for a prolonged fight against militants who have taken over hundreds of square miles of territory across western and northern parts of the country. | Washington Post >>
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
U.S. military leaders are considering relaxing liberty restrictions in Japan, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Monday. | Stars and Stripes >>In a Washington Post article, retired Lt. Gen. David W. Barno recently wrote that the Army's transition from two of the longest wars in U.S. history to relative peace at home "...could weaken the Army's warfighting capabilities and drive talented, combat-experienced young leaders from the force." | Task & Purpose >>
(Via Task & Purpose)
About 17,000 service members tricked into predatory loans could see their debts erased under a settlement announced by federal and state regulators Tuesday. | Navy Times >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Aaron Saari's path to entrepreneurship has unorthodox origins. As a young military cadet, he stumbled across "The Game," a book written by pickup artist Neil Strauss. "I thought I could use a little help," laughs Saari. "Ironically enough, although it sounds sleazy, the book was actually a great education about the way we all make decisions. | Task & Purpose >> Former Marine Cpl. Joshua Ploetz, a combat veteran, began paddling his approximate 2,575-mile journey down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico from Lake Itasca, May 19, to raise awareness for post-traumatic stress for veterans currently caught in their own internal war. | Marine Corps Times >>
 (Via Marine Corps Times)
Club in hand, wheelchair user Joe Sapienza used stories from his own life to motivate disabled veterans trying the game of golf for the first time since serious injuries changed their lives. Golf gave him peace, Sapienza said. He wants to share it. | The News Tribune >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Capitol Hill lawmakers signed off Monday night on a detailed $17 billion compromise to overhaul the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs. | Stars and Stripes >>
Robert McDonald, a West Point graduate and Army airborne vet who went on to lead one of the most successful companies in the U.S., was swiftly confirmed on Tuesday to head the Department of Veterans Affairs. | Military.com >>
The Department of Defense has taken the unusual step of overseeing a plagiarism investigation being conducted by the U.S. Army War College against Sen. John Walsh of Montana, the college's provost said Tuesday. | Associated Press >> |
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