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From: gretchen@mail.iava.org
To: booperser@live.com
Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- September 10, 2014
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 07:13:23 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Wednesday September 10, 2014
Today is National Suicide Prevention Day, if you or someone you know is experiencing a crisis, call the Veterans Crisis Line at 1.800.273.8255 and press 1 for free and confidential help. | Veterans Crisis Line >> |
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
The VA Scandal Isn't Going Away
The top watchdog for the Veterans Affairs Department said Tuesday that it appears that the majority of the 93 VA facilities now under investigation were intentionally manipulating data, which could lead to a fresh round of drama for the embattled agency. | National Journal >> The VA Has Way Too Many Websites for Veterans Care
Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald said he plans to launch a new digital services team in the agency to help winnow down its numerous websites as part of a plan to improve the services VA delivers to veterans. | Defense One >>
22 A Day Is Unconscionable: Preventing Veteran Suicide
IAVA CEO and Founder, Paul Rieckhoff, writes: An estimated 22 veterans die by suicide each day. But you will see no headlines on their passing. For many of our brave servicemen and women, transitioning home is challenging. Imagine the strain of leaving family and friends for months on end in an unfamiliar country, enduring battle and seeing your friends fall to the enemy. | Huffington Post >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
Negotiations between Afghanistan's presidential candidates were deadlocked a day before a deadline to release the results of a United Nations-backed vote audit and declare the winner of the June election. | Bloomberg >>President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday pleaded for national unity and a speedy settlement to Afghanistan's political crisis, but the event at which he spoke was marred by hooting and catcalls that brought it to an early end. | New York Times >>
On September 5, a NATO-chartered plane carrying over 100 U.S. personnel was forced to land in Bandar Abbas, an Iranian city on the northern shore of the Straight of Hormuz. For several hours, scores of Americans connected to the coalition war unexpectedly found themselves grounded in a country that the U.S. considers a leading state sponsor of terrorism, and hasn't had official diplomatic relations with the U.S. since 1980. | Business Insider >>
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| IRAQ |
The United States on Monday launched its 148th airstrike in Iraq since President Obama authorized strikes there a month ago. That works out to about five per day, a rate that has enabled U.S. forces to target a wide breadth of equipment, infrastructure and weapons controlled by militants with the Islamic State. | Washington Post >>
A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends and relatives. | Reuters >>Americans overwhelmingly view Islamic State terrorists as a serious threat to vital U.S. interests and, in a significant shift, widely support airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. | Washington Post >>
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
The Army is ramping up security at Fort Bliss, its sprawling West Texas post near the US-Mexico border. | Associated Press >>At private parties on the waters of Long Island Sound, lined by some of the country's most exclusive real estate, hosts setting off elaborate fireworks displays enjoy a little-known benefit. Security is provided, at no expense, by the U.S. Coast Guard. | Associated Press >>
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Broadcast homecomings such as these have become the public face of military families post-deployment reunions, but the intense happiness of these moments can mask the challenges that lie ahead as these families navigate life after their loved ones return from war. | Washington Post >>
A U.S. Marine held in a Mexican prison on weapons charges since April 1 is slated to attend his third evidentiary hearing Tuesday in Tijuana where his attorney plans to argue that his rights were violated by the arresting officers. | LA Times >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Brad Messervy has been homeless in the Prescott area for the last five years and often sleeps in the forest, which he says he loves. Messervy chooses to be homeless out of a love for the lifestyle and the freedom it affords him. | The Daily Courier >>A Garland resident and former U.S. Marine has reunited with a military dog that he served with in Afghanistan in 2011. | Dallas Morning News >>
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My first morning in Forward Operating Base Lightning, Maj. Vance Trenkel, the Third Cavalry's public affairs officer, asked me to create a little good feeling and sketch someone wearing the Third Cav's Stetson. Of course I agreed, and made one plaintive request: it had to be some Clint Eastwood-looking crusty veteran of multiple conflicts. "I need to see the grit in the corners of his eyes," I said. | Washington Post >>
Grehlinger is making his way across the country on two wheels. He's riding from Portland, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina, totaling close to 44-hundred miles in just 3 months. With every mile, he's raising money for Veteran's Best Friend, an organization that gives dogs to veterans suffering with PTSD. | WRCB Chattanooga >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Federal programs that give or pay for military-grade equipment for local police departments are coming under new scrutiny from the Senate Homeland Security panel. | NPR >>
Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald has a tough job making his lapel pin more than an ornament. The pin spells out "I CARE," an acronym for the core values - integrity, commitment, advocacy, respect, and excellence - of the department McDonald now heads. | Washington Post >>
Seth Moulton, a Harvard Business School graduate and Marine veteran, on Tuesday became the first Massachusetts Democrat in 22 years to oust a sitting congressman from his own party, decisively defeating embattled nine-term Representative John F. Tierney and setting the stage for an unpredictable general election in November. | Boston Globe >> |
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