Robert (Bobby) Hanafin, Major, U.S. Air Force-Retired (indythinker) |
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2008 CRS Report to Congress on Veteran Suicides (www.hooah4health.com)
Numerous news stories in the popular print and electronic media have documented suicides among service members and veterans returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by indythinker
These risk factors include combat exposure, post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) and other mental health problems, traumatic brain injury (TBI), poor social support structures, and access to lethal means.
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2008 CRS Report to Congress on Veteran Suicides (www.hooah4health.com)
Numerous news stories in the popular print and electronic media have documented suicides among service members and veterans returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by indythinker
Veterans have a number of risk factors that increase their chance of attempting suicide.
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Op-Ed: Fix VA's Broken Claims Process (www.veteransforcommonsense.org)
Significant deficiencies hamper the VA’s system for processing disability benefits claims, as evidenced by the nearly 1 million claims pending before the VA, an average processing time of 162 days,... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by indythinker
The VA claims processing system must be fixed before more disabled soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen return home from Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Op-Ed: Fix VA's Broken Claims Process (www.veteransforcommonsense.org)
Significant deficiencies hamper the VA’s system for processing disability benefits claims, as evidenced by the nearly 1 million claims pending before the VA, an average processing time of 162 days,... More
Submitted about 1 month ago by indythinker
An average processing time of 162 days, a 60 percent overturn rate when claims decisions are appealed and a $4,000 range in states’ average disability pay awarded to similarly injured veterans.
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Air Force cracks down on combat deployment exemptions (www.veteranstoday.com)
"The Air Force has steadily tightened deployment exemptions - from yanking medical waivers to cutting training assignments." Military Times.
Submitted about 1 month ago by indythinker
Check out the Air Force Expeditionary Force Center photo gallery of Airmen being given what looks like Basic Infantry Training. http://www.expeditionarycenter.af.mil/photos/mediagallery.asp?page=1
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Air Force cracks down on combat deployment exemptions (www.veteranstoday.com)
"The Air Force has steadily tightened deployment exemptions - from yanking medical waivers to cutting training assignments." Military Times.
Submitted about 1 month ago by indythinker
I believe the Air Force is now doing a much better job at preparing Airmen to be boots on the ground.
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60 Minutes Gets an Honest Answer about Veterans defrauding the U.S. taxpayer! (www.veteranstoday.com)
Activist Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) was on camera when CBS 60 minutes asked what can be called the Stolen Valor question. Listen to what Pitts asked something to the effect of... More
Submitted 2 months ago by indythinker
That is what we need to say to the NEOCONs who have downplayed PTSD, Agent Orange and will belittle any ailment coming out of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
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60 Minutes Gets an Honest Answer about Veterans defrauding the U.S. taxpayer! (www.veteranstoday.com)
Activist Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) was on camera when CBS 60 minutes asked what can be called the Stolen Valor question. Listen to what Pitts asked something to the effect of... More
Submitted 2 months ago by indythinker
Paul's response was short and to the point. The number of Veterans who scam the VA on a yearly basis could be counted on two hand.
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60 Minutes Gets an Honest Answer about Veterans defrauding the U.S. taxpayer! (www.veteranstoday.com)
Activist Paul Sullivan of Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) was on camera when CBS 60 minutes asked what can be called the Stolen Valor question. Listen to what Pitts asked something to the effect of... More
Submitted 2 months ago by indythinker
This is an outlandish assumption that most Veterans scam and defraud the U.S. taxpayer!
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Morphine Use after Combat Injury in Iraq and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (content.nejm.org)
Quickly giving morphine to wounded troops cuts in half the chance they will develop post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a provocative study that suggests a new strategy for preventing the... More
Tags: ptsd,new england journal of medicine,iraq troops,morphine
Submitted about 1 month ago by indythinker
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Health Research Center led the study of about 700 troops injured in Iraq from 2004 through 2006.