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IAVA Daily News Brief - Monday July 7, 2014
Soldiers from the Maine National Guard's 133rd Engineer Battalion return home from deployment to Afghanistan on Tuesday. | Military Times >> |
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
Remember the Veterans Health Care Crisis?
Having so far failed to complete reform legislation intended to ensure veterans don't die waiting for health care, lawmakers return facing significant unfinished business to show voters action before they go home to campaign in August. | National Journal >> Doctor visit means hundreds of miles for some vets
For millions of veterans living in rural America, the challenges of accessing an overburdened and scandal-plagued health care system go beyond having to wait months to land an appointment. | Associated Press >>
VA scandal: How to fix a broken system
The Editorial board for The Republic writes: Robert McDonald faces three big challenges as the VA's new secretary. Here's how he should address them. The first is size. With 6.5 million patients, 300,000 employees and more than 150 hospitals and 850 clinics, the system is too large to adequately perform its core mission of providing lifesaving and recuperative care to veterans of war. | The Republic >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
Thousands of refugees fleeing an offensive by Pakistan's army have poured across the lawless border into ramshackle camps on rugged hills in Afghanistan, stirring unease that Taliban militants may be hiding among them. | Reuters >> The Taliban in Afghanistan say that they have carried out a rocket attack on hundreds of oil tankers outside the capital, Kabul. It was unclear whether there had been any casualties in the incident which happened late on Friday. | BBC >>
Afghan election authorities are due to unveil preliminary results of a presidential runoff after a five-day delay as Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai rejected a coalition with his main rival, a move that may spark protests. | Bloomberg >>
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| IRAQ |
Wearing a black turban and black robes, the leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic state that stretches across eastern Syria and much of northern and western Iraq made a startling public appearance, his first in many years, at a well-known mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul, according to a video released on Saturday whose contents were confirmed by experts and witnesses. | New York Times >>Col. Samuel Whitehurst had been consumed with work in the last days of his brigade's nine-month deployment in eastern Afghanistan when alarming news about his former battleground in northern Iraq began to reach him. | Washington Post >>
As Iran helps Iraqi government forces fight rebels pushing through Iraq, the use of unarmed Iranian drones has U.S. officials on edge, as analyst Anthony Cordesman explains to NPR's Linda Wertheimer. | NPR >>
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
Nine veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were awarded grants of up to $5,000 to help pay down exorbitant student loan debt incurred while attending unscrupulous for-profit colleges. Since it's founding in 2012, the Veterans' Student Loan Relief Fund has helped 31 veterans who have been misled into using up their GI benefits and taking out onerous student loans. | IAVA >>
The pregnant wife of a Marine has been missing for one week in Southern California. The search for Erin Corwin, 19, centers around her home in Twentynine Palms, California, and Joshua Tree National Park. | Huffington Post >>Countless service members and citizens demanded justice when a sailor - unable to attend a June 16 court hearing because his sub was deployed - was threatened with jail time and losing custody of his 6-year-old daughter. | Military Times >>
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China gave Western journalists a rare look aboard two People's Liberation Army vessels Saturday during the Rim of the Pacific naval exercises in Hawaii, showcasing a hospital ship with complex medical facilities and a destroyer flying U.S. and Chinese flags. | Associated Press >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Louis Zamperini, a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic track and field team who survived repeated torture for two years as a Japanese prisoner of war during World War II, died Wednesday from pneumonia at the age of 97, his family announced. | NBC News >> Tesla Motors, which is on a mission to bring electric cars to the masses, now has another goal -- to become a leading employer of America's military veterans. | Mercury News >>
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Bob Hastings, an actor best known for portraying Lt. Elroy Carpenter, a bumbling yes-man on the 1960s sitcom "McHale's Navy," died on Monday in Burbank, Calif. He was 89. | Associated Press >>
Billy Hurley III has been waiting for a breakthrough moment on the PGA Tour. On Independence Day, the former U.S. Navy officer might have set himself up for one this weekend in the Greenbrier Classic. | New York Times >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
The House and Senate have passed bills responding to revelations that veterans died after the VA delayed providing medical care. But the measures don't change the VA employees' habit of gaming the system, covering up problems and punishing whistleblowers who try to sound the alarm - the "corrosive culture" that White House deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors warned about in a report to President Barack Obama last week. | Politico >>
A Roswell mother's heartache takes her to Capitol Hill after her veteran son took his own life. Twenty-two United States veterans kill themselves every day, according to the Department of Veteran Affairs. | Fox 5 Atlanta >>
A veteran who collapsed in an Albuquerque Veteran Affairs hospital cafeteria -- 500 yards from the emergency room -- died after waiting around 20 minutes for an ambulance, officials confirmed Thursday. | Associated Press >>
Pressure is building on House and Senate lawmakers to reach a deal this month on legislation to reform the troubled Veterans Affairs Department. Congress has only 28 workdays left before Election Day, leaving little time for negotiators to hammer out differences between competing bills approved by the House and Senate. | The Hill >> |
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