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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- September 12, 2014
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:10:42 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Friday September 12, 2014
Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Castonguay, an operations specialist assigned to the Coast Guard Cutter Waesche, embraces his daughter, Amanda, after returning home from a 14-week deployment, at Coast Guard Island in Alameda, Calif. | Military Times >> |
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Life Without My Father: A Personal Account on Suicide
September is Suicide Prevention Month, and as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said recently, "Suicide is a complex and devastating event that affects us all. The painful loss of life and its heartbreaking aftermath spread beyond the individual and immediate family, taking a toll on fellow service members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and society itself." | DoD Live >>Survey shows veterans relying on VA as primary source of mental health care
Many veterans are turning to the Department of Veterans Affairs as their primary source of mental health care, but they say access remains slow, confusing and anxiety-ridden and adds to their depression, according to a survey from the Wounded Warrior Project. | Washington Post >>
Permanent new boss requested for Phoenix VA
Arizona's entire congressional delegation sent a letter Thursday to Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald urging him to name a permanent leader of the Phoenix VA medical center to replace Director Sharon Helman even though she remains on the agency's payroll. | The Arizona Republic >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
Don Gomez reacts to 9/11 in Afghanistan. | Carrying the Gun >>
Today, Americans all over the country pay tribute and remember those whose lives were lost on September 11th, 2001. Earlier this morning Marines, sailors and other coalition forces still deployed to Afghanistan did the same. | Huffington Post >>These days, it's easy to assume the worst about Afghanistan's interminable election crisis. Both presidential candidates believe they won the election, and neither wants to back down. | Foreign Policy >>
A powerful backer of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah said on Thursday his supporters would launch street protests and occupy government buildings if they were unhappy with the outcome of a disputed election. | Reuters >>
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| IRAQ |
Retired Marine Gen. John Allen will coordinate the broad international effort to battle the Islamic State militants, as the campaign against the extremist group ramps up and nations begin to determine what role each will play, U.S. officials said Thursday. | Associated Press >> Six years after riding into office on a message of ending the war in Iraq, President Barack Obama is winding down his time in the White House by defending fresh military action in that nation. | Huffington Post >>
Iraq's new broad-based government will be the "engine" of the Obama administration's plan to turn back the rapid advances of Islamic State militants, Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Wednesday. But lined with familiar faces, the much-vaunted governing coalition faces huge challenges in playing that role. | Washington Post >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
Command of the Army's main combat units - its pipeline to top leadership - is virtually devoid of black officers, according to interviews, documents and data obtained by USA TODAY. | USA Today >>As dawn rose over the Reaper hill, a square-jawed, barrel-chested Marine recruit marched ahead to receive his Eagle, Globe and Anchor emblem. | U-T San Diego >>
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An Air Force exercise involving the U.S., Canada and Russia has been canceled. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, says that's due to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. | Associated Press >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
To mark the 13 years since September 11th, first responders from Western New York and across the state gathered in Albany. Thursday morning, more than 50 first responders and veterans from across the state took off for a memorial ride to Ground Zero. | TWC News Buffalo >> It was humbling and moving to be in the presence of the Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team on Wednesday night at Toyota Field. | WFAA 8 ABC >>
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Starting over has been a recurring theme for Albert since returning from the battlefield. The once-homeless entrepreneur quit drinking in 2007 and now runs a construction business, online training company and Warrior Soul Apparel-a clothing company that sells fitness gear with 20 percent of the profits going toward helping veterans returning home from deployment- which was inspired by his desire to help his brothers in arms transition back to civilian life. | Long Beach Post >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Two key members of the U.S. House Veterans' Affairs Committee on Thursday leveled blistering criticism at the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs brain research program at the Waco Center of Excellence, with one pushing to move the program to a new agency such as the National Institutes of Health. | Austin American-Statesman >>
The Senate passed a bill Thursday that would increase compensation benefits for veterans with disabilities. | The Hill >>
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will hold two town hall meetings in San Diego County next week to get feedback from veterans on medical care. The federal agency is still trying to recover from revelations this year that some VA hospitals falsified patient wait times to make it appear that they met goals. | U-T San Diego >> |
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