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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- August 6, 2014
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 07:20:54 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Wednesday August 6, 2014
Coalition forces release informational leaflets out of a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter over villages in Logar Province, Afghanistan. | Military Times >> |
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
VA secretary calls for town hall meetings
New Veterans Affairs Secretary Bob McDonald has ordered town hall meetings at all department health and benefits facilities by the end of September, in an effort to better understand veterans' complaints about services. | Military Times >>VA scrambles to create private care alternative for veterans
The bipartisan overhaul of the Department of Veterans Affairs approved last week by Congress has touched off a race against the clock, as the agency now is tasked with setting up a private health care alternative for veterans within 90 days. | Fox News >>
Winning Hearts and Minds at the VA
Deeply rooted cultural problems, seemingly endemic within the Department of Veterans Affairs, have put veterans health care at the forefront of our national news cycle this summer. Last week, Congress passed a bill to address a culture of dysfunction that built for years under a layer of red tape. | Defense One >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
A U.S. Army two-star major general was killed Tuesday in an insider attack at an Afghan military training facility, U.S. Defense and military officials told NBC News. He was later identified as Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, a native of upstate New York. | NBC News >> As of Tuesday, August 5, 2014, at least 2,198 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count. | Associated Press >>
Residents of Afghanistan's second largest city could go without power when U.S. subsidies for diesel fuel phase out next year, according to a report released Tuesday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. | McClatchy DC >>
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| IRAQ |
The United Nations Security Council is warning that the Islamic State extremist group may be held accountable for crimes against humanity for its systematic persecution of minorities in Iraq. | Associated Press >> Kurdish forces faced their first major defeat in Iraq over the weekend, when militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized the towns of Sinjar, Zumar and Wana. The United Nations, citing local reports, estimated as many as 200,000 civilians fled Sinjar alone. | PBS >>
In the past week, forces flying the flag of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) defeated Kurdish troops guarding the northern Iraqi city of Sinjar, forcing up to 200,000 people to flee. Even worse, Reuters reports that ISIL militants were involved in fighting in a border town in Lebanon, "a sign of its ambitions across the frontiers of the Middle East." | Mic >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
The experimental drug used to treat two American aid workers who have been infected with the Ebola virus has never been tested on humans before and was only identified earlier this year as part of an ongoing research program backed by the U.S. government and military. | Fox News >> Military bands usually conjure images of drummer boys and bugles. But the United States Army Field Band rocks. And it's coming to Columbia for a performance Thursday night. | Stars and Stripes >>
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The post-World War II GI Bill helped veterans live the American Dream. But a new GI Bill designed to help those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is coming under fire. The Center for Investigative Reporting found more than $600 million dollars in GI bill money had gone to hundreds of for-profit schools in California with low graduation rates and high rates of student loan default. | The Center for Investigative Reporting >>
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on Tuesday was getting prepared for the grilling he may get from the Army. Bergdahl is scheduled to be formally questioned by an Army investigator Wednesday at Fort Sam Houston about his 2009 disappearance in Afghanistan. Bergdahl's attorney, Eugene Fidell, told NBC News that was meeting with his client Tuesday in San Antonio. | NBC News >>
Bonus pay is being cut for most Marines reporting to special duty assignments. The rate cuts will affect a wide range of Marines, including recruiters, drill instructors, combat instructors and embassy security guards, according to a Marine Corps news release announcing the changes. | Stars and Stripes >> |
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
An active-duty Army officer stricken with terminal cancer is fighting for his life - and the lives of others. Capt. Justin Fitch said he wants to use his last days to reverse the epidemic of veteran suicide. | Military Times >> For some people, close friendships start at youth and develop over the years. For Capt. Luis Montalvan, it began in 2008 with his service dog Tuesday, and they've been together every minute, every hour of every day ever since. "Dogs are our oldest and truest friends" he said. | Park Ridge Herald-Advocate >>
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A war hero from East Harlem who lost a leg in Iraq is putting his New York mettle to the test starting Tuesday night when he makes his professional wrestling debut in the Big Apple. Chris Melendez, who was awarded a Purple Heart, will be competing at the "TNA Impact Wrestling LIVE" event at the Manhattan Center for three nights. | NY Daily News >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Despite public outrage over dysfunctional and dangerously run hospitals, a landmark VA reform bill set to be signed Thursday by President Barack Obama will retain some department perks: Hefty bonuses for executives and other employees. | Stars and Stripes >>
Montana Sen. John Walsh is engaged in internal deliberations with his political team about whether to stay on the ballot this year, sources said Tuesday, in the wake of a plagiarism scandal that has tarnished the appointed Democratic lawmaker's standing. | Politico >>
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said the University of Phoenix-San Diego is in full compliance with a federal regulation limiting the number of veterans using federal funding, according to a statement from the department. | Wall Street Journal >> |
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