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From: gretchen@mail.iava.org
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Subject: IAVA Daily News Brief- September 8, 2014
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 07:08:55 -0600
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IAVA Daily News Brief - Monday September 8, 2014
Marine Col. Romin Dasmalchi addresses the Marines and sailors of the 31st Marine Expedtionary Unit aboard the amphibious assault ship Peleliu off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, on Tuesday. The 31st MEU is conducting amphibious integration training aboard the ship as part of their reguarly scheduled fall patrol. | Military Times >> |
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| TODAY'S TOP STORIES |
Lost opportunity: With wars winding down, VA's brain research failed to launch
On the morning of July 1, 2008, Department of Veterans Affairs officials gathered to unveil a state-of-the-art brain scanner they predicted would help revolutionize the understanding of traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder in combat veterans. | Austin American-Statesman >>Suicides in first 3 months of year hold steady
The Pentagon released its data on suicides among troops in the first quarter of 2014, showing that the Defense Department is holding steady in its battle against self-inflicted deaths. From January to March, 120 active-duty, reserve and National Guard members died by suicide. | Air Force Times >>
The VA: Trouble from the start
This summer's revelations about the Veterans Administration have tarnished the image of a cherished national institution. One of the nation's largest health care systems, the VA provides a lifetime of medical services at no personal expense to military veterans. But recent events suggest the system is broken. | Boston Globe >>
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| AFGHANISTAN |
Local Afghan officials say more than 200 police officers and soldiers have been killed during a fierce Taliban offensive in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan that has lasted all summer and now threatens to overwhelm a key district. | New York Times >>
President Obama called the two rival presidential candidates in Afghanistan over the weekend, urging both men to swiftly reach a power-sharing deal to bring stability to the country. | Washington Post >>It was hard to place the thick scent filtering into the American military helicopter as it landed here on a recent summer day. Then the soldiers fanned out across the terraced farmland, a stone's throw from the government headquarters, and discovered a crop of marijuana growing beneath them that stretched to the horizon. | New York Times >>
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| IRAQ |
The U.S. has launched fresh airstrikes against the Islamic State militant group in an effort to keep the Haditha Dam in western Iraq in the hands of that country's army. | Fox News >>As the Obama administration debates expanding its air offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) from Iraqi Kurdistan into eastern Syria, its main challenge remains finding a reliable military partner on the ground. | ABC News >>
From the look of it, the Khabat primary school bustles with life. Children flit through the building's atrium, weaving between stacked school desks and racing past the colorful murals that adorn the walls. | New York Times >> |
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| MILITARY AFFAIRS |
The 9/11 Memorial Museum has announced a "new exhibition portraying the years-long hunt, the ultimate discovery and killing of Osama bin Laden." Besides the shirt of from the Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden, the museum has two other items-including one from bin Laden's compound. | Gothamist >> About 1,500 Marines and sailors have been busily testing the capabilities of the Navy's newest amphibious assault ship during a two-month transit in a region that rarely sees a warship of this size. | Marine Corps Times >>
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The Navy christened the submarine John Warner on Saturday in a star-spangled ceremony at Newport News Shipbuilding that paid homage to the elder statesman of Virginia politics and included a hometown flourish. | The Daily Press >>
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| NEW GREATEST GENERATION |
For veterans like Tim Maynard, scuba diving provides relief from symptoms of PTSD. Maynard goes diving once a week, exploring the Florida Keys and shipwrecks off the coast of North Carolina. | NPR >> This is the story McGuire - a recently minted C-17 command pilot - tells airmen in speeches around the country. He tells them about a chance encounter in an elevator a week after surgery that offered a glimmer of hope in the dark. He tells them that no matter what they are facing, it's never too great to overcome. | Air Force Times >>
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Matthew Hayes had always planned on becoming a police officer, following in the footsteps of his father and older brother. In 2008, he joined the Marine Corps to burnish his résumé and increase his chances of landing a good law enforcement job. | Springfield News-Leader >>
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| INSIDE WASHINGTON |
Congress will meet with Veterans Affairs Department officials next week to demand answers on how the agency is handling appeals filed by veterans whose compensation claims were denied. | Military.com >>
This is a tale of two Marines. One a Democrat, the other a Republican. Both running for Congress. Seth Moulton's attempt to take out an entrenched incumbent Democrat on Boston's North Shore has received considerable attention. Cormick Lynch's bid for the Republican nomination for the congressional seat in Rhode Island's District One has attracted considerably less. | Boston Globe >>
Jack Behunin received welcome news last year from the Department of Veterans Affairs: Due to war-related medical conditions, he was being declared unfit to work, boosting his tax-free monthly disability compensation from $1,850 to $3,000. Not that he had any interest in a job. A World War II veteran in Burbank, he is 90 years old. | LA Times >> |
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