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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- September 15, 2014
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 07:29:19 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Monday September 15, 2014
Marines, assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit depart the well deck of the amphibious dock landing ship Germantown in combat rubber raiding crafts during amphibious operations. Germantown is part of the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group and is conducting joint forces exercises in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. | Military Times >> |
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
VA whistleblower claims retaliation for reporting arrest of high-ranking official
Last month, he reported to VA officials in Washington on the April arrest of a high-ranking official who oversees nearly a dozen medical centers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. That same day, Mr. Colon-Christensen says he lost his credentialing privileges and was detailed to a new job. | Washington Times >>The Veterans No One Talks About
The Pentagon says that the majority of soldiers-about 77 percent-do receive an honorable discharge. But more than 600,000 received a lesser rating between fiscal years 2000 and 2013, according to a Defense Department breakdown. These soldiers often feel left behind by the government and find it very hard to get the full benefits they believe they have earned. | National Journal >>
For ailing veterans, endless government delays
Wayyne Scott, a World War II Navy veteran and Culver City schoolteacher, began falling apart after his wife died. First it was meningitis and then Parkinson's and dementia. His daughter, Kim Richards, kept hoping she would be notified that a bed was finally available for her father at CalVet's West Los Angeles Veterans Home, where Scott had been on a waiting list since early 2012. | LA Times >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
To find a flag as big as the one hoisted over Kabul's historic Wazir Akbar Khan hill on Wednesday, you would have to go pretty far - possibly as far as a Walmart parking lot somewhere in the Great Plains. | New York Times >> On the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Obama used the occasion last week to remind Americans that "our combat mission in Afghanistan will come to an end" in three months. But the cost to U.S. taxpayers for reconstruction in Afghanistan will continue. | Washington Times >>
The men were dressed as migrant workers. Over the course of two or three days, as many as 600 of them made their way through the checkpoints dotted around the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar. Many of them hauled trolleys carrying crates of freshly picked grapes as they headed towards the outlying district of Zheri, some 24 miles (38km) west of Kandahar city. | The Guardian >>
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| IRAQ |
If you read enough news and watch enough cable television about the threat of the Islamic State, the radical Sunni Muslim militia group better known simply as ISIS, you will inevitably encounter a parade of retired generals demanding an increased US military presence in the region...But what you won't learn from media coverage of ISIS is that many of these former Pentagon officials have skin in the game as paid directors and advisers to some of the largest military contractors in the world. | The Nation >>The parents of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff were told by a White House counterterrorism official at a meeting last May that they could face criminal prosecution if they paid ransom to try to free their son, a spokesman for the family told Yahoo News Friday night. | Yahoo News >>
Several Arab states have offered to conduct airstrikes against militants in Iraq alongside the efforts of the United States, U.S. officials said Sunday as the Obama administration sought to bolster its case for action against the Islamic State. | Washington Post >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
The Air Force has spent the last 20 years reducing its footprint in Europe, but the last six months of Russian military aggression, among other world events, could force the service to rethink that strategy. | Air Force Times >> Friday, the Army announced that it's seeking female candidates for the spring 2015 Ranger School course. By January, the Army will announce whether it will admit female soldiers to the program. | The News Tribune >>
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Rescuers on Saturday have called off their search of the Pacific Ocean for a Navy fighter pilot whose jet was one of two that crashed west of Wake Island. | Associated Press >>
Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park gives thanks IAVA and Paul Rieckhoff, IAVA's CEO and Founder, during the Carnivores Tour with the IAVA Convoy in Irvine, CA. | YouTube >> |
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
Alex Tardieu is not your average punter. He's Army's punter, and he is as strong as you'd expect a cadet at the United States Military Academy to be. And if you come at him with weakness, he will obliterate you. | SB Nation >>Two years ago, he was wearing a camouflage uniform for the U.S. Army. On Monday night, Indianapolis Colts inside linebacker Josh McNary will make his first NFL start. | Scout >>
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According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly one in 10 civilians ages 18 and over were military veterans in 2013. From this group of 21.4 million people, about 2.8 million served during the second Gulf War era, compared with 4 percent of veterans from World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam eras. | Washington Post >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
A campaign ad for U.S. Rep. Kyrsten Sinema that focuses on a Phoenix veteran's suicide has prompted a Veterans Affairs official to defend the agency's actions in the case, an e-mail obtained by The Arizona Republic shows. | The Arizona Republic >>
Years of study notwithstanding, the Veterans Affairs Department still knows too little about the readjustment difficulties faced by the increasingly younger and more female cohort of recently separated service members. | Defense One >>
The House Veterans' Affairs Committee shot down a measure Wednesday that aimed to extend equal benefits, including medical care, housing and burial assistance, to veterans' same-sex spouses, even if they live in a state that does not recognize same-sex marriage. | Huffington Post >>
President Obama's push to hire military veterans for jobs across the government is fueling resentment in federal offices, as longtime civil servants and former troops on the other side of the cubicle increasingly question each other's competence and qualifications. | Washington Post >>
Two members of the U.S. House Veterans' Affairs Committee have expressed concern over the ability of the Department of Veterans Affairs to handle a costly brain research program in Waco. | Associated Press >> |
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