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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- August 20, 2014
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 07:26:46 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Wednesday August 20, 2014
An MV-22 Osprey launches from the flight deck of amphibious assault ship Makin Island in the U.S. 7th and 5th Fleet areas of responsibility. | Military Times >> |
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
A fatal level of trust in Veterans Affairs care
Terry Weirick had faith in the health care he was getting from the Department of Veterans Affairs almost until the day he died. The Army combat veteran who served nearly two years in Vietnam started feeling weak and nauseous about two years ago. His doctors at the VA in Fort Wayne, Ind., told him he had the flu. | Washington Examiner >>VA Sued for Denying Benefits to Gay Spouses
A law firm representing gay and lesbian service members and veterans on Tuesday filed suit against the Veterans Affairs Department for failing to extend benefits to same-sex spouses who live in states that do not recognize their marriages. | Military.com >>
New rules issued for firing VA executives
Federal regulators on Tuesday outlined interim rules for streamlined firing of Veterans Affairs Department senior executives, a new authority backed by Congress in an effort to clean up cultural problems at the embattled department. | Military Times >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
A coterie of powerful Afghan government ministers and officials with strong ties to the security forces are threatening to seize power if an election impasse that has paralyzed the country is not resolved soon. | New York Times >> Afghanistan's attorney general has banned a New York Times reporter from leaving the country after he wrote a story about unnamed officials seeking to take power if the country's presidential election deadlock persists. | Fox News >>
Nestled at the base of the craggy mountaintops that loom over north Kabul, the middle-class neighborhood of Qasaba seems an unlikely place to be infiltrated by Afghanistan's Taliban-led insurgents. | Washington Post >>
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| IRAQ |
The last time the United States pushed Iraqis to choose a new prime minister who could unite the country to confront a sectarian civil war was in 2006, and the Iraqis chose Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The result was another civil war. This time, with the country again on the edge of collapse, they have chosen Haider al-Abadi. | New York Times >> Americans are increasingly inclined to say the United States has a responsibility to respond to rising violence in Iraq, a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll finds, although most also express fears about getting pulled back into a extended conflict there. | USA Today >>
As Kurdish and Iraqi forces backed by American jets battled to dislodge Islamic militants from areas around Mosul Dam in northern Iraq, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday that it was planning one of its biggest aid operations in recent years. | New York Times >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
The Army announced Tuesday it is extending its investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a former prisoner of war in Afghanistan, through September. | The Hill >>
When Abu Sayyaf rebels staged a mass kidnapping in the southern Philippines in 2001, the U.S. military sent a small group of counterterrorism training experts and other support to help local troops. | Stars and Stripes >>
The story of women in the military you haven't heard, and the Marine Corps doesn't want you to know. Virtually every day for the past few years, pictures of women in the military have been posted on public Facebook pages. | Task & Purpose >> |
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Before Adam Driver "made a lot of people cry" as an actor, he was a gun-toting Marine fighting for this country. Now, he's somehow found the link between those two worlds. | NY Daily News >> Her dark hair is pulled back in a tight ponytail. She's wearing a black tank top, black running shoes and a white visor. On the brick steps next to the American flag in front of her house in West Ghent, she switches on her iPod, slips her earphones into place and glances down at her shoelaces. Nancy Lacore is off. If you live anywhere along her usual route, you've probably seen her. She laughs and says running has become her part-time job. It's been this way for about seven months, since Lacore, a 46-year-old Navy reservist, came up with the idea for the Valor Run. | The Virginian-Pilot >>
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In her new book Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War, author Helen Thorpe follows the lives of female soldiers, showing just how different their experiences are from their male counterparts'. | Huffington Post >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
In May, Florida joined a growing list of states that have made it easier for veterans to qualify for in-state tuition. And starting next year, recent veterans in every state should be able take advantage of in-state tuition rates, thanks to a little-publicized provision in a $16 billion federal law signed by President Barack Obama earlier this month. | The Fiscal Times >>
An independent federal agency is openly questioning the constitutionality of new rules passed by Congress aimed at allowing the Veterans Affairs secretary to fire senior employees involved in the VA health care scandal. | The Blaze >>
New Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has hardly had time to get comfortable in his office before being put on the defensive by fresh revelations of longstanding agency efforts to hide or downplay patient deaths and treatment delays. | Washington Examiner >>
Uncle Sam's program for giving veterans extra points in the hiring process is complex, confusing and difficult to understand, according to a Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) report released Tuesday. | Washington Post >> |
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