Thank you
vva17
member
Robert Serge
To all my fellow veterans friends and family my we all remember
From: gretchen@mail.iava.org
To: booperser@live.com
Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- August 21, 2014
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 07:24:52 -0600
To view this email as a web page, go here.
|
 |
|
|
IAVA Daily News Brief - Thursday August 21, 2014
Members from the 36th Airlift Squadron step to their aircraft during the first day of Red Flag-Alaska at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Red Flag-Alaska is an exercise that provides joint offensive counter-air, interdiction, close-air support and large-force employment training in a simulated combat environment. | Military Times >> |
|
|
| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
|
|
| AFGHANISTAN |
Afghanistan ordered a New York Times correspondent Wednesday to leave the country in 24 hours and barred him from returning over a story he wrote saying that a group of officials were considering seizing power because of the impasse over who won its recent presidential election, the attorney general's office said in a statement. | Associated Press >> President Obama may have ordered American warplanes back to Iraq, but he has not changed his mind about his other big military withdrawal. Mr. Obama told advisers this week that delaying the pullout of American troops from Afghanistan would make no difference there as long as the country did not overcome its political rifts. | New York Times >>
A soldier with the NATO-led military coalition was stabbed to death in Kabul on Wednesday, according to Afghan officials and eyewitnesses. | New York Times >>
|
|
|
| IRAQ |
American fighter jets and drones continued to pound Islamic State militants in Iraq on Wednesday, and military planners weighed the possibility of sending a small number of additional U.S. troops to Baghdad, U.S. officials said, even as the insurgents threatened to kill a second American captive in retribution for any continued attacks. | Associated Press >> U.S. President Barack Obama expressed revulsion on Wednesday at the beheading of an American journalist by Islamist militants and vowed the United States would do what it must to protect its citizens as international condemnation of the insurgents grew. | Reuters >>
The U.S. State Department has asked for 300 additional American military personnel to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and at U.S. facilities at the Baghdad airport, a senior U.S. official told NBC News on Wednesday. | NBC News >> |
|
|
| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
At least 34 sailors are being kicked out of the Navy for their roles in a cheating ring that operated undetected for at least seven years at a nuclear power training site, and 10 others are under criminal investigation, the admiral in charge of the Navy's nuclear reactors program told The Associated Press. | Associated Press >>
An airman with the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron was awarded the Silver Star and Bronze Star on Monday at Joint Base Lewis-McChord for directing air and ground strikes while he was behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. | Stars and Stripes >>
Phillip Perez cheated death many times before it took him in March. The Army veteran survived the Korean War. He beat colon cancer in 1998 and kidney cancer in 2013. But a lingering infection in his toe landed him in a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Fresno, Calif., where his daughter says his complex medical history and fragile physical condition were ignored. | Washington Examiner >> |
|
|
| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Like the proverbial band of brothers, veterans take care of their own, as was evident during a recent two-week computer network engineer training course at the Culpeper VFW. Seven veterans with disabilities from around the area participated in the free Cisco class offered by four volunteer instructors, also veterans, who traveled from as far as Maryland and Florida to give their brothers in arms a hand-up in the job force. | Star Exponent >>More than 200 disabled veterans have descended on Soldier Field, to take part in the 4th annual Valor Games Midwest sporting competition. WBBM Newsradio's Mike Krauser reports the veterans planned to take part in three days of games that are as much about mental rehabilitation as physical - perhaps more. | CBS Chicago >> 
(Via CBS Chicago)
"I am actually still serving, I am an Army reservist," said Eric Burghardt of Kalamazoo. They served at different places. "I'm a Vietnam veteran, so I am considered one of the older guys in the group," said Bob Pries of Farmington Hills. Meet Team Rubicon. | WDIV Detroit >>
|
|
|
| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
The Reno Veterans Affairs Regional Office apparently has a new leader, although she is carrying the title of "acting director." During his visit to Reno on Tuesday, recently appointed VA Secretary Robert McDonald introduced Kathy Malin, from Boise, Idaho, as the new leader of the Reno office, saying "Kathy is leading this site." | Reno Gazette-Journal >>
Post TV caught up with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) this week as he listened to angry Virginia military veterans sharing their experiences with the Department of Veterans Affairs' health network. The agency has been in the spotlight lately because of a scandal involving widespread falsification of appointment records to hide treatment delays. | Washington Post >>
The head of the Department of Veterans Affairs' broken health care clinic in Phoenix, Arizona is still being paid her $170,000 salary 111 days after being released in the wake of the VA health care scandal. | The Blaze >> |
|
|
A wide range of views, positions and publications are represented in these articles. These views, positions and publications are not endorsed by nor do they necessarily represent the views of IAVA.
|
SIGN UP HERE TO RECEIVE THE DAILY NEWS BRIEF
|
| JOIN IAVA | CONTACT US | JOIN OUR PRESS LIST | DONATE NOW |
No comments:
Post a Comment