It’s not just suicide. It’s also drug overdose, car crashes, quasi- or secret-suicide carried out in fearful isolation. Young Iraq and Afghanistan vets are dying in increasing numbers by their own hands in “a largely unseen pattern of early deaths that federal authorities are failing to adequately track and have been slow to respond to,”
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President Barack Obama has appealed to veterans and military families in defense-focused southeast Virginia, casting himself as a president who is ending foreign entanglements and aiding returning soldiers with educational opportunities. Obama chided rival Mitt Romney for saying, in secretly taped remarks months ago, that nearly half of Americans believe they are victims entitled to
The Disabled Veterans National Foundation, a non-profit veterans service organization that focuses on helping men and women who serve and return home wounded or sick after defending our safety and our freedom, is asking the 112th Congress to remember Veterans as they look to finish their legislative business before they adjourn until after the November
Men and women serve our country in the military, but when they finish their duty and return home, finding a job is often difficult. Especially in this economy. All the efforts to help veterans find work might make some wonder: How many unemployed veterans are there in New Jersey? The number is big — 22,000.
The top human resources official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs resigned a day before the scheduled release of an inspector general’s report on questionable spending tied to two conferences in Florida. The agency announced in a brief statement yesterday that Secretary Eric Shinseki had accepted the resignation of John Sepulveda, the VA’s assistant
A statewide survey is trying to reach West Virginia’s war veterans. Its purpose is to find out what issues and challenges these men and women have as they make the transition into civilian life, and then continue aging. Mark Combs is an acting student at West Virginia University. He is also one of nearly 800
The link between U.S. military service and running for office is as old as the republic itself. It started with George Washington, who famously wrote that, ‘‘When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.’’ During the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, hundreds of thousands of veterans have come home and
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today announced the launch of the Medical Technology Veterans Program (MVP) Boot Camp for Returning Heroes, a year-long career training and mentorship program designed to help veterans returning to the civilian workforce make the transition to jobs in the medical technology (medtech) and diagnostics industries. Twenty-five Heroes from across
Terry Lee and Bruce Sledge meet three to four days a week in the group study section of the Tarrant County College South Campus library. Textbooks and manuals with titles like Air Conditioning System and Design and pages showing psychometric charts that illustrate the physical and thermal properties of moist air are scattered between them.
A new state law intends to make the transition a little smoother for U.S. soldiers who served as military police and want to become civilian cops. Gov. Jerry Brown last week signed Senate Bill 1563 by Sen. Anthony Cannella, R-Ceres, which “provides those with the proper training an additional 15 points for any peace officer