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
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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
At his desk, steps from an exposed toilet with two rolls of tissue, a sink, bed, small white refrigerator and microwave, Anthony Sperduto displayed computer images of his life as it once was. There on the screen were pictures with ex-wife, Maritza, at a banquet, business trips to Hawaii and views of a meticulously decorated,
They survived the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. But they did not survive the homecoming. A six-month American-Statesman investigation, which paints the most complete picture yet of what happened to Texas’ Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who died after leaving the military, reveals that an alarmingly high percentage died from prescription drug overdoses, toxic drug combinations,
Campaigning for the veteran vote is another underlying theme in the coming six weeks, but some Latino veterans are still at odds on who they want as their commander in chief. It depends on whom you ask. For Jess Quintero, a veteran who served in the army and Air Force during the Cold War, Romney
Veterans across the nation are waiting an average of 260 days for a decision on a war-related disability claim – three days longer than last week and 80 days longer than in mid-2011, according to data recently released by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. More than 815,000 veterans across the nation are waiting for