- 8 years ago Sticky: One Stop Shop for VA Benefits and Resources
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How Trauma Shapes The World We Know
Commentator Alva Noë takes a look at a new study showing that PTSD sufferers experience the presence of real threats the rest of us cannot see.
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U.S. military and civilians are increasingly divided
The U.S. military today is gradually becoming a separate warrior class, many analysts say, that is becoming increasingly distinct from the public it is charged with protecting. As the size of the military shrinks, the connections between military personnel and the broad civilian population appear to be growing more distant, the Pew Research Center concluded after a broad 2012 study of both service members and civilians.
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Killing by Committee in the Global Wild West
The Perpetrators Become the Victims of Drone Warfare. By Pratap Chatterjee.
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How Trauma Shapes The World We Know
Commentator Alva Noë takes a look at a new study showing that PTSD sufferers experience the presence of real threats the rest of us cannot see.
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Agent Orange Act Was Supposed to Help Vietnam Veterans — But Many Still Don’t Qualify
The 1991 law presumes veterans were exposed to the defoliant if they have certain diseases and “set foot” in Vietnam, but Navy vets and Air Force vets in Thailand say they were also exposed. Here’s our guide to groups seeking Agent Orange benefits. By Charles Ornstein and Mike Hixenbaugh.
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Army Whistleblower Turns Populist
Lt. Col. Danny Davis was a fierce truth-teller on Afghanistan; can he make the civilian transition?
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Over a Quarter-Million Vietnam War Veterans Still Have PTSD
Forty years after the war’s end, twice as many vets with combat-related PTSD are getting worse as those who are improving.
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How Planned Parenthood controversy killed a US veterans fertility bill
A bill that would have helped wounded American vets start families was withdrawn after new amendments that would bar the Veterans Affairs from working with 'organizations that take human aborted babies' organs and sell them.'
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Frontline: Shyrokino
"Slava Ukraini" means "Glory to Ukraine." It's a nationalistic phrase, and almost impossible to avoid in the country. Here is a heavy-metal cover of the Ukrainian national anthem played by Ukrainian Kenny Powers. The drummer gets really into it, as does the small audience. Encouraging everyone to watch is the purest way of voicing my approval for the sentiment. On the second night in Mariupol we go drinking with two members of Azov Battalion. One, a Swedish sniper named Mikael "Mike"...
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How Veterans Screw Up College | Task & Purpose
As veterans, what is leading a big chunk of us down the wrong path? What is it about college that defeats us?
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Warship's Last Survivors Recall Sinking in Shark-Infested Waters
Seventy years later, [U.S.S. Indianapolis] veterans of an epic naval disaster gather to share stories of suffering, reconciliation, and healing. By Glenn Hodges.
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The U.S. Declared War On Veteran Homelessness — And It Actually Could Win
In 2009, then-Veterans Affairs head Eric Shinseki declared that all homeless veterans would have housing by the end of 2015. New Orleans has made big strides, but in Los Angeles, the problem persists.
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Transition-related care costs are negligible for the military, study says
According to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, transition care for transgender members of the US military, would cost around $5.6 million annually.
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After PTSD, More Trauma
It was a difficult, emotionally draining scene to revisit. This was the work site of prolonged exposure therapy, where the heart’s truest labor was supposed to happen. But after a month of therapy, I began to have problems. I was offered an overhyped therapy built on the premise that the best way to escape the aftereffects of hell was to go through hell again.
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A Common Language
Ron Capps served in Rwanda, Darfur, Kosovo, Eastern Congo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. When he got back, writing was the only thing that could truly bring him home again. By Kristina Shevory.
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307,000 veterans died awaiting Veterans Affairs health care, report finds
Hundreds of thousands of veterans listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs enrollment system died before their applications for care were processed, according to a report issued Wednesday. The VA’s inspector general found that out of about 800,000 records stalled in the agency’s system for managing health care enrollment, there were more than 307,000 records that belonged to veterans who had died months or years in the past.
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Soldiers in Dark Times
Military Education, Ethics, and Political Science. By Celestino Perez, Jr.
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Lawyer: Bowe Bergdahl 'In Physical Danger' From Fellow Soldiers
Ahead of a key hearing this week in his case of alleged desertion, former Taliban prisoner Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's defense team told a military tribunal that he has been "in physical danger" for a year from fellow soldiers who are angry over claims he betrayed his country. Bergdahl's civilian...
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Missed Treatment: Soldiers With Mental Health Issues Dismissed For 'Misconduct'
The Army has "separated" more than 22,000 soldiers for "misconduct" since 2009 — often without benefits — after they returned from war with mental health problems or brain injuries.
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Veterans Day: Suicide has caused more American casualties than wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
On a day like any other in America, former Navy Master at Arms Daniel Faddis, 28, put a Sig Sauer 9 millimeter pistol to his head and shot himself. Faddis took his own life on June 20, 2012 -- adding his name to the somber roll call of 22 U.S. military veterans who die by suicide every day, more than double the civilian rate. Since that day, some 27,258 of those we honor for their service on this Veterans Day have died by their own hand.