The 37th running of the Marine Corps Marathon is Sunday in the Washington, D.C. area, and all the while Hurricane Sandy is making its way up the east coast. Marine Corporal Ben McCrosky from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina runs with a prosthetic on his left leg. He is ready for the rain, if it happens.
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As a colonel in the Army, I watched hundreds of soldiers and their families make the transition from citizen to soldier. In one unit in Germany during the 1990s, I would board the official Army “replacement bus,” a 40-passenger bus with soldiers fresh from their specialty training, to introduce myself, hoping that the personal touch
VoteVets Action Fund, a progressive veterans group, announced a $1 million push on Friday against Republican congressional candidates in Virginia, Indiana and Montana for the final days of the 2012 election cycle. The effort includes a television ad targeting U.S. Senate candidate George Allen’s voting record on veterans’ benefits and care. “There are over 800,000
After a five-fold increase in the number of military veterans attending Ohio State University — and some trouble keeping pace with mounting GI Bill paperwork — the school introduced an expanded effort to support veterans yesterday. The new Office of Military and Veterans Services will handle those GI Bill benefit issues while providing a “one-stop
The Department of Veterans Affairs reports that 11 to 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war vets suffer from PTSD, as do 10 percent of Gulf War veterans and 30 percent of Vietnam War veterans. Military veterans can access free, licensed mental-health counseling through the Give an Hour website – giveanhour.org – for which 6,500
WASHINGTON — Officials from General Electric, Alcoa, Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced a new initiative Monday to train 100,000 veterans in advanced manufacturing jobs, with the dual goals of repaying their service and restocking the talent needed for those high-tech jobs in the coming years.
Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who struggle with the anger and emotional outbursts of combat trauma are more than twice as likely as other veterans to be arrested for criminal misbehavior, new research has confirmed. The new study, published Oct. 1 in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, for the first time draws a direct
Veterans For Peace is a national organization founded in 1985 by military veterans opposed to the Reagan administration’s war against the people of Central America. It includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations spanning the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, other conflicts
A task force looking at how Utah serves veterans will ask the Legislature to streamline the myriad — but disjointed — state services offered to those who served their country. The Veterans Reintegration Task Force, created by the Legislature to suggest changes, has been meeting monthly since July. Its 20 members include lawmakers and representatives
(Reuters) – Four of the largest U.S. manufacturers on Monday unveiled plans for a new group committed to train military veterans to work in the manufacturing sector. General Electric Co, Alcoa Inc, Boeing Co and Lockheed-Martin Corp said they would provide financial support to the “Get Skills to Work Coalition.” It will initially aim to