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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- July 31, 2014
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 07:53:44 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Thursday July 31, 2014
Master Sgt. Ed McKenna, a pararescue specialist with the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, Kentucky Air National Guard, prepares to land from a free-fall jump from a C-130 Hercules with a tandem non-qualified jumper while training at the National Guard PATRIOT 2014 exercise at Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center, Wis. | Military Times >> |
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| AFGHANISTAN |
That the Taliban is waiting for U.S. troops to withdraw is a long-held narrative of the Afghanistan War. It has especially been the case since late 2009, when President Obama announced a surge of tens of thousands of U.S. troops, while at the same time setting a timetable to begin withdrawing forces. | Washington Post >> By the time its combat troops depart at the end of 2014, the United States will have appropriated more money trying to fix Afghanistan than it did on the Marshall Plan that helped Europe recover economically after World War II, according to an analysis by a government watchdog. | Stars and Stripes >>
Pakistani security forces in a troubled northwestern tribal region foiled an overnight cross-border attack from Afghanistan, killing six militants, two military officials said Wednesday. | Associated Press >>
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| IRAQ |
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday his government has allocated more than $850 million to assist those displaced by last month's militant takeover of much of the country, and called on Sunnis remaining in those areas to take up arms against the insurgents. | Associated Press >> Last week, the Iraqi army said it had retaken a town the government said was a base for Sunni jihadists. Baghdad's stated victory was short-lived. Two days later, Sunni extremists from the Islamic State drove five Humvees into the town, Jurf al-Sakhar, and blew themselves and others up, setting off a new round of fighting to control the town. | Wall Street Journal >>
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
Roughly half the schedulers at multiple Veterans Affairs hospitals said they received instructions from supervisors to falsify data and hide the true time it took patients to be seen by a doctor after making an appointment, new details from an internal VA audit show. | CNN >> Rim of the Pacific war games are wrapping up with dozens of ships heading back to Pearl Harbor on Wednesday and Thursday after spending several weeks at sea working on interoperability in an increasingly interconnected Asia-Pacific region. | Stars and Stripes >>
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The Albuquerque Police Department says it turns out it doesn't need a massive armored vehicle that the city obtained as military surplus and plans to dispose of it. Albuquerque was among numerous law enforcement agencies across the country that obtained some of the many mine-resistant and ambush-protected vehicles that the military procured for the Iraq and Afghan wars. | Fox News >>
Three-dimensional printing is taking the evolution of the bomb to a new level. The U.S. Army believes that the new technology will present security experts and policy makers with capabilities previously unimaginable. | Washington Times >> |
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Summer camp is a place for adventure and personal growth, as well as a place to make lifelong friends. And one very special camp in Chicago does all of that while helping disabled soldiers find their way back to a more fulfilling life. | Fox 32 Chicago >> Joe Kloby encountered his share of combat as an E5 scout in the US Army over two 13-month tours of duty in Iraq. He was awarded a Purple Heart for maneuvering a convoy away from an ambush during which the vehicle he was driving took a direct hit from a rocket-propelled grenade and numerous bullets. | Houston Chronicle >>
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Veteran Roy "Critter" Hutson and fellow Desert Knights Motorcycle Club member Keith "Straight Edge" Emmons of Millsboro recently completed a week-long cross-country trip to raise money and awareness for Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that helps financially support veterans of post-Sept. 11 conflicts. | Milford Beacon >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
New revelations that Veterans Affairs Department employees at more than 100 sites manipulated patient data shows that Congress has yet to learn the true depths of fraudulent behavior at the department, a senior House lawmaker said Wednesday. | The Hill >>
Senate Democrats plan to introduce a bill Wednesday that would require military health care to cover all forms of contraception without co-pays - similar to the coverage required under Obamacare. | Politico >>
Two advocacy groups are suing the Veterans Affairs Department for what they say are the department's discriminatory practices regarding compensation claims related to service-connected sexual assault. | Army Times >> |
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