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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- August 11, 2014
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:19:05 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Monday August 11, 2014
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Robert Childers does a pre-flight check on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from the Illinois Army National Guard, 2nd Battalion, 238th General Support Aviation Battalion, Peoria, Ill., in support of Operation Northern Strike at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Mich. | Military Times >> |
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
Commission to Review VA Scheduling Practices
Veterans Affairs Department Secretary Robert McDonald on Friday announced that an independent organization will review patient scheduling processes for all VA medical facilities in the country. | Military.com >> New VA secretary touts fixes to veterans group
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald addressed a veterans group for the first time since taking over the troubled agency last month, calling his plans to fix it "an opportunity we can't miss nor underestimate." "This is an opportunity for me to make a difference in the lives of veterans I care so much about," McDonald, a West Point graduate and former Army Ranger, told a National Disabled American Veterans convention in Las Vegas on Saturday. | Air Force Times >>
Nevada lawmakers want change at Reno VA
Former U.S. Army paratrooper Pete Neugebauer knows all about the two-headed dragon that plagues military veterans who seek medical care from the VA system in Northern Nevada. | Reno Gazette-Journal >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
World War II ended in victory parades. Korea ended in stalemate. The Vietnam War ended in controversy, neatly captured in 1971 by veteran John Kerry (now secretary of state) when he posed the rhetorical question: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" The coming end of conventional combat operations in Afghanistan, after 13 years of fighting, doesn't resemble any of these models. Fought by an all-volunteer military, the war still draws young men who want to test themselves in combat, led by men who have already seen more than they sometimes care to remember. | Wall Street Journal >>A Suicide blast targeting a foreign military convoy has killed at least four civilians in the Afghan capital, authorities said. Residents of the Darulaman neighborhood of West Kabul told The Times they heard a loud blast at 11:30 a.m. local time. | Los Angeles Times >>
Afghanistan's rival presidential candidates issued a joint statement on Friday, reaffirming their commitment to accept the results of an internationally monitored recount brokered by Secretary of State John Kerry and to abide by a power-sharing arrangement regardless of who prevails. | New York Times >>
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| IRAQ |
Many Iraq veterans in Congress, who have an intimate understanding of the gravity of President Barack Obama's decision to authorize the use of military force in Iraq, expressed their support for the strikes, as well as a humanitarian mission to drop aid to thousands of Iraqis stranded on a mountain near Sinjar. Even lawmakers who initially urged caution about the use of U.S. military force to counter ISIL are now urging Obama to do more - but not by military means alone. | Defense One >>President Obama said on Saturday that the airstrikes and humanitarian assistance drops he ordered last week in Iraq could go on for months, preparing Americans for an extended military presence in the skies there as Iraq's leaders try to build a new government. | New York Times >>
When Kenneth Jarecke photographed an Iraqi man burned alive, he thought it would change the way Americans saw the Gulf War. But the media wouldn't run the picture. | The Atlantic >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
Four decades after the Vietnam War, 11% of its veterans still suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, according to new research suggesting that for some people it is a condition unlikely to ever go away. | Los Angeles Times >> While most everyone in Hawaii hunkered down for the arrival of the storm duo of Iselle and Julio in recent days, Air Force Reserve hurricane hunters were crisscrossing through the eyes of the storms. Much of the information used by the National Hurricane Center in Miami to forecast hurricane intensity and direction comes in real time directly from weather stations in the back of C-130 prop planes operated by the Mississippi-based 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. | Stars and Stripes >>
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The Thunder Over Michigan Air Show at Willow Run Airport this weekend featured some of the best military and civilian pilots, unique aircraft and WWJ's own Brooke Allen, who leaped and parachuted over 12,000 feet with one of the U.S. Army Golden Knights. | CBS Detroit >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Several dozen members of Team Rubicon were covered in sweat and soot, before most people had contemplated getting out of bed on this Saturday morning. The service-based group of active and former military, first responders and concerned citizens was working to clear burned trees and brush from the property of retired Army Col. Bill Mantia, who had lost everything in the Black Forest fire. | Colorado Springs Gazette >>The visitors' dugout at The Ballpark in Old Orchard Beach was littered with the usual paraphernalia on Saturday but also with the unusual. Among the tumble of water bottles, baseball bats and equipment bags were prosthetic legs of all shapes and sizes. The dugout was home for the day to the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team. Thirteen of the team's 25 players - all military veterans missing limbs, many of them from combat - flew in from around the country to go up against the Maine Army National Guard team. | Portland Press Herald >>
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Chris Melendez may have lost a leg while serving in Iraq, but the native New Yorker is not going to let the injury cut short his dream of becoming a wrestler. Inspired by his father, a Vietnam veteran, Melendez joined the military when he was 17 years old. In 2006, when Melendez was only 23 days away from returning home after his deployment, he lost a leg in a roadside bomb at the age of 19. | ABC News >>
So you've done it. You've done your time and wrapped up your days on active duty. Maybe you're headed to the reserves, maybe you've got some time to kill in the individual ready reserve, or maybe you're one of the lucky/unlucky ones who did enough years on the job to just roll right into civilian life. Whatever path you took, congrats. So now what? Well, for those of you making the transition from military life to any of the big cities that dot our fair country, I have compiled a guide as important as it is brief to give you the edge to adjust and thrive in your new civilian life among the teeming masses of a metropolis like New York, Chicago, or Sheboygan, Wisconsin. | Task & Purpose >>
"Hey, I'm wounded. I have scars. But I don't need a violin playing behind me with sad music to make me feel like a sob story," he said. "Get on with life." On Saturday, Mills showed he's getting on with his life in a big way by jumping from an airplane along with the wife of Maine Gov. Paul LePage, first lady Ann LePage, with a parachute team in Fort Kent. His feat raised money for a veterans center and museum in the town in northern Maine. | Associated Press >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Sen. John Walsh's (D-Mont.) political career appears to be over, but plagiarism allegations could have far-reaching implications for his military career, too. Walsh, who was the upper chamber's lone Iraq War veteran, withdrew from the Senate race this week after reports he allegedly plagiarized roughly a quarter of his 14-page Army War College thesis. | The Hill >>
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald visited a VA hospital Friday for the first time since taking over the embattled agency last month, meeting with veterans and health care providers and vowing to restore trust in the organization. | Associated Press >>
The Department of Veterans Affairs is apologizing for what it called an "inadvertent" mistake that underreported the number of deaths linked to delays in cancer treatment at VA medical facilities. The VA says there was no intent to mislead anyone. But a lawmaker who has been leading oversight of the beleaguered agency is unsatisfied. | Associated Press >> |
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