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From: gretchen@mail.iava.org
To: booperser@live.com
Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief - September 19, 2014
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 07:13:28 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Friday September 19, 2014
Sailors conduct flight operations aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). | Military Times >>
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
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| AFGHANISTAN |
The House of Representatives has signed off on plans to fight militants in Iraq and Syria, but as President Obama and his top advisers prepare the American public for another long fight, the U.S. is still struggling to account for millions of dollars spent during its 13 years in Afghanistan. | MSNBC >> After months of deadlock over its presidential election, Afghanistan's ambassador to the United Kingdom told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday that the country is "on the right track" to forming a unity government. | CNN >>
Three months after Afghanistan's presidential election and two months after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry brokered an agreement to resolve the dispute that arose from it, the country's new president has yet to take office. Announcement of the official winner keeps getting delayed. | Bloomberg >>
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| IRAQ |
President François Hollande said Thursday that France was willing to join the United States-led campaign against the Islamic State, including airstrikes against militants in Iraq, saying the world was confronting unremitting brutality. | New York Times >> A series of bomb and mortar shell attacks in and around Baghdad killed at least 36 people, Iraqi officials said Thursday, in an assault that underscored the threat posed to the Iraqi capital by marauding Islamic militants that have seized large parts of country. | Associated Press >>
As Iraqi forces and various militias, backed by American airstrikes, have sought to beat back fighters calling themselves the Islamic State, Mr. Nujaifi has pursued his own military response, narrowly tailored toward reclaiming Mosul. He is trying to assemble a 3,000-person militia of mostly Sunni Muslims from Nineveh Province to deploy against the militant group, also known as ISIS. | New York Times >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
The Navy has approved a special provision granting hardship duty pay to sailors and marines who are deployed beyond 220 consecutive days, service officials said. | Military.com >> Valiant Shield is the largest U.S.-only military exercise in the world, and developing new strategies to combat threats in the air, sea and cyberspace are a big part of it. However, most participants say the biggest piece is getting the different services to figure out how to work together in an exercise so they don't have to do it on the fly in a combat zone. | Stars and Stripes >>
(Via Stars and Stripes)
Atheists will no longer have to end the Air Force oath with the words "so help me God," or face an end to their military careers. The Air Force announced Wednesday that it had changed its policy to allow individuals swearing the oath to omit "so help me God" in accordance with their beliefs. | MSNBC >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
It figures that Michelle Monaghan, one of too many underutilized actresses usually relegated to playing the hero's wife, would have to go shoestring in order to find a role that allows her to display the range of her talents. She's at her best as Army medic/staff sergeant Maggie Swann in writer-director Claudia Myers's Fort Bliss, a returning-soldier drama that answers the annoyingly ubiquitous "Can women have it all?" question with an exasperated "no." | The Village Voice >>Thursday morning, bike riders with "The Warrior Ride" came through Horry County. These riders are combat injured veterans and are riding to Charleston. | WBTW News 13 >>
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Daniel Rodriguez is a decorated war hero, a Division I football player for Clemson University, and the author of the forthcoming memoir, RISE: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept. | TIME >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Two representatives from the Wounded Warrior Project addressed a group of Capitol Hill staffers in Dirksen Senate Office Building Thursday to offer suggestions for hiring wounded veterans and accommodating those veterans in the workplace. | Roll Call >>
Nevada congressman Joe Heck's promotion to one-star general now has the blessing of the U.S. Senate. Heck's staff confirmed that lawmakers approved naming the Republican representative a brigadier general in the Army Reserve. He serves as a medical adviser and most recently held the rank of colonel. | Associated Press >>
As many as 80,000 veterans who suffered from post-traumatic stress and received Other Than Honorable discharges can use evidence of their PTSD to petition service boards to upgrade the bad paper discharge. | Stars and Stripes >>
A Department of Veterans Affairs hospital system already embroiled in scandal over delays in treating veterans was roundly criticized by government investigators Thursday for mishandling another program to support military families caring for loved ones hurt in Iraq or Afghanistan. | USA Today >> |
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