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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- September 11, 2014
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:13:26 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Thursday September 11, 2014
For the first time, the National September 11 Museum - which includes gut-wrenching artifacts and graphic photos of the attacks - will be open on the anniversary. | Associated Press >> |
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
Survey: 40 percent of wounded face problems getting VA care
As a peer mentor for Wounded Warrior Project, Josh Renschler regularly helps severely injured veterans navigate the Veterans Affairs Department health care system. | Navy Times >> "Son, Men Don't Get Raped"
Sexual assault is alarmingly common in the U.S. military, and more than half of the victims are men. According to the Pentagon, thirty-eight military men are sexually assaulted every single day. These are the stories you never hear-because the culprits almost always go free, the survivors rarely speak, and no one in the military or Congress has done enough to stop it. | GQ >>
Veterans wary of prolonged war in Middle East
Paul Rieckhoff, founder and president of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, talks about how Iraq and Afghanistan veterans view the prospect of returning to war in the Middle East and the importance of fulfilling obligations to veterans' care. | MSNBC- The Rachel Maddow Show >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
As of Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, at least 2,203 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 >>The Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani, sounding secure in the prospect of victory, began outlining his plans for a new government in a speech to supporters on Wednesday. | New York Times >>
Former Vice President Dick Cheney cautioned that terrorists will overrun Afghanistan much like the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has in Iraq if President Obama continues his scheduled troop withdrawal. | Washington Free Beacon >>
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| IRAQ |
A group of Iraqi Sunni refugees had found shelter in an abandoned school, two families to a room, after fleeing fighters from theIslamic State in Iraq and Syria. They were gathered in the school's courtyard last week when the Iraqi Air Force bombed them. | New York Times >> The Obama administration's emerging plan to turn back the rapid battlefield advances of Islamic State militants depends on new, multiethnic leadership in Iraq after years of sectarian strife and stagnation, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Wednesday. | Washington Post >>
President Obama told congressional leaders Tuesday that he "has the authority he needs" to take action against the jihadist group known as the Islamic State, the White House said. | USA Today >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
Despite President Obama's call for increased involvement of the U.S. military in the fight against the rapidly escalating Ebola epidemic in West Africa, the United States is hamstrung by a lack of military medical personnel with expertise dealing with the deadly virus, a top official in charge of coordinating the U.S. response said Tuesday. | Washington Post >> U.S. troops occasionally have to land their aircraft unexpectedly, giving rise to awkward situations. Consider the case of a transport plane that landed on an African highway in July while carrying U.S. troops, prompting a sheepish Marine colonel to apologize for the commotion. | Washington Post >>
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The Navy plans to release its investigation into January's deadly helicopter crash off Virginia Beach during a news conference Thursday, the service announced this morning. | The Virginian-Pilot >>
Gender discrimination in the military is not bold. It is poor leadership. And it should never be rewarded. As a former Marine infantry officer, I found it illustrating to pick up this month's issue of the Marine Corps Gazette and discover that our infantry is a "cult-like brotherhood ... the one place where young men are able to focus solely on being a warrior without the distraction of women or political correctness." | Task & Purpose >> |
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
These are no ordinary Joes. At first glance, the G.I. Joe action figures who are the subjects of a stark photo exhibit on display at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library look disturbingly real. And that's precisely the point. | San Jose Mercury News >> "This guy," said Travis Schneider, pointing toward the big brown eyes of his service dog, Gibbs, a white Labrador retriever. And sports. These two things have made Schneider's life tolerable since he left the Navy in 2012. The former gunner's mate lives with severe post-traumatic stress disorder and a mild brain injury after nine months in Iraq in 2008. | U-T San Diego >>
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David Keefe wore the uniform of the United States Marines proudly in Iraq. In Morristown, he will mash it into a pulp in the same spirit of Semper Fi. | Morristown Green >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Mirroring a scandal that engulfed its health care system, VA managers handling disability benefit appeals also manipulated records to hide overly long delays in deciding cases, an agency whistleblower testified Wednesday on Capitol Hill. | Stars and Stripes >>
Declarations by the Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general that delays in healthcare at the agency's Phoenix hospital did not "conclusively" cause patient deaths is an unrealistic standard that is virtually impossible to meet, according to medical experts. | Washington Examiner >>
There aren't really any unifying issues in this year's midterm elections, except for one: the treatment of the nation's veterans. | NPR >>
The beleaguered Veterans Affairs department is launching a major recruitment campaign to bring aboard legions of doctors, nurses and other health care professionals. Plans are to also beef up the ranks of support staff, hiring for roles as diverse as chaplain, clerk, electrician, librarian and plumber. | CNN >>
Each year, more than 250,000 Servicemembers take off their uniform for the last time. And for those transitioning Veterans, among the first questions they ask is: What's next? To help answer the "what's next" question, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is introducing a plan to incorporate Accelerated Learning Programs (ALP) as a way to bridge the gap between Veterans' separation from service and successful civilian employment outcomes. | Military.com >> |
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