Tag: Veterans’ News

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. Urgent Reminder: Deadline at Midnight January 27 to Enroll in VA Health Care In January 2008 Congress increased...

Rightwing, sectarian Christians are embedded at the DVA,  the Pentagon, all branches of the U.S. military, and the military academies. They want Christian armed forces. And they have...

Top 10 Veterans Stories in Today’s News 1. VA Pilots Vertiglo Application Services: Returning Vets to Use Mobile Devices. PRLog.Org (press release) Returning veterans are now able...

VA Doctors in Salt Lake City missing in action. Exceptional Conference on Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue/ME. With one out of four Gulf War 1 Veterans ill at least, one would think that the VA in Salt Lake City would be in attendance and that they would encourage and notify their patients at the VA with Fibromyalgia to attend this conference.

Updated: The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) and its allies waged a new line of attacks towards Lt. Gen. Michael Gould, the Superintendent of the U.S. Air...

After 14 Years, Pentagon Finally Complies with Law Passed as "Lesson Learned" from Military's Failure to Care for Gulf War Veterans By Bob Brewin in...

Early cardiac deaths of Desert Storm veterans need action now.

US Navy Operation Desert Storm- Timothy John Avazian(USS Tarawa)  52 Another Salior Passes too Soon: Timothy John Avazian, 52 of Gallatin, died suddenly at home...

Congressman Manzullo, stood up for Ill Desert Storm Veterans, this author worked with his staff along with a number of other gulf war veteran advocates. Many hours were spent on the hill in DC and it took several sessions of congress to get the measure passed into law. His staff truly worked hand in hand with the veteran's advocates and held monthly meetings and updates on the final push. This is the bill that became law that listed each of the symptoms of gulf war illness that should be compensated!

From the Fay Observer an excellent article.  We are reposting this article at VT to be sure all see one of the worse case...

Pre application for gulf war illness research for FY2011.

We salute another young veteran of the Gulf War, USA, 45, Cancer, from Birmingham, Al who will be laid to rest Sunday during the 20 year anniversary of the Gulf War.

Us Representative from Connecticut pledges help for Gulf War Veterans but is this really happenning

UK Gulf War Veterans still ill just as US veterans and other coalition forces. Waiting for their governments to care for them in a timely manner. What is the reason for the delay. It has been 20 years and many thousands have died.

Gulf War Memory Many individuals and different groups have tried over the past 20 years. We spoke, testified, went to the media and to the elected representatives and any other committee or advisory group that came along. But our job, our duty, our moral and ethical duty to each other has not been accomplished. We have not crossed the finish line until each gets the care and help needed.

memorial service for Gulf War 90-91 Marine this saturday

Twenty Years After Operation Desert Storm, Veterans are Dying Early in Life

Gulf War Veteran dies suddenly. Gulf War Veteran leader, 501st Ordnance Battalion, USArmy, 44, Massachusetts Flags at half staff for vet, father of 4

Veterans of Operation Desert Storm 1990-91 Gulf War still await timely health care and compensation.

So here is the latest information IT IS STILL TO BE DETERMINED How Much For Sure For Gulf War Illness Research Program at DOD-CDMRP For FY2011. IT never hurts to keep your voice and written words in front of your US Representatives and US Senators and for you to share those to as many elected officials in all the parties from local to State to National! And to get the news of that out in all ways possible!!! In a year with continuing resolutions, partisan battles, and omnibus bill that runs in the thousands of pages that throw everything into the soup when they cannt get the 13 funding bills through in any form of clean method. Well, lets us say it is not a clean recipe at that point, behind the scenes cooks can be known to help or hinder. Even when a number of us advocates and those on the hill ie staffers are doing everything to track and monitor. AS the old song goes Behind closed doors......You never can tell where a secret supporter, Santa, Cook can either spice up the recipe or make it go sour.

Environmental factors associated with lung cancer are grossly underestimated. At the direction of Congress, the Institute of Medicine began studying the health impact of Gulf War exposure to depleted uranium, the residue left after nuclear-grade uranium is extracted. Like radon, which is the second leading cause of lung cancer, depleted uranium, used in weapons and armor shielding, can give off radioactive products of decay that can be carcinogenic. While the first Institute of Medicine report in 2000 found insufficient evidence of a definite link to lung cancer, the 2008 update report now assigns “high priority” to continued review of the link with lung cancer. The institute has also been reviewing the impact of exposure to fuel exhausts, smoke from burning oil wells, kerosene cookers and heaters in enclosed tents and other battlefield emissions. The “strongest finding” was the association of combustion products and lung cancer.

Update on Depleted Uranium Internationally. There has been work being done internationally while the media ignores the issue. Here is the news contained below that doesn't appear in mainstream media coverage. There is concern but medical research and peer reviewed journal articles seem to take decades, while veterans die without help, denial of compensation, denial of a proactive medical system to perform diagnostic tests in a full screening in a timely manner to catch health problems and to diagnose cancers at the earliest date possible and to monitor health status for other diseases related to respiratory and cardiac and neuroimmune problems.

That is the Christmas Gift of Caring enought to give your time weekly in an effort to educate and make it better. Letters and emails with introductory comments with an article that is educational. We provide the article and you play it forward and help us be heard!

Veterans in Need! Right Before Christmas, if you want to help deserving Veterans, VT will post stories that have been published elsewhere or input we get of Veterans that need Special Santas! This article is a repost from another paper in our country that the writer found and felt that it was appropriate to publish on a Veterans News Website. WE have so many troops and veterans and small veteran organizations that need fund raising help Now and Throughout the year.

The Gulf War Illness Research Funds current information is that in the FY 2011 Omnibus DOD Appropriations currently under consideration there is funding for Gulf War Illness Research. This measures provides $8 million for the Peer Reviewed Gulf War Illness Research Program and $3.8 million for the ALS Therapy Development Institute Gulf War Research Project. This funding is directed to DOD CDMRP(Department of Defense Congressionally Direct Medical Research Program) .

Blood Donation and Chronic Fatigue and Gulf War Veterans/Illness in the National News Alert should also includes those Desort Storm Veterans/Gulf War Veterans 1990-91 who have chronic fatigue syndrome. This should be no surprise, when we returned home in 1991 we had a blood ban

1.      Senator Questions VA, Defense Spending On Tutiton Aid To Vets In For-Profit Schools.  In continuing coverage, a press release from Senate Majority Whip...

Gulf War Illness Research Funding is on the line. Veterans, Advocates, Family members, health care providers, friends of veterans truly need to wake up and write emails to their senators and representatives on the hill in DC right now this moment and all weekend. The Battle is on the US HOUSE AND SENATE ALL NEXT WEEK! IT STARTS MONDAY AGAIN! IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO GET ACROSS: The level received last year for DOD CDMRP GULF WAR ILLNESS RESEARCH(Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program) was 8 million for FY10, the best we are able to discern at this time is that the continuing resolution and other hill sources seem to indicate that is again what might come out in the final wash.

So far these 34 Deaths in November 2010 and the one from October included we want to continue to remember them and their survivors. We have no data if any or all or a part of these were receiving Disability from the VA or were rated service connected. We do not know if the VA even has all of these recorded because some died for sure with no VA Rating, No VA C file, etc. or are never seen by the VA. This list presenting for honor today continues to number 35 . Well over one a day gulf war veterans 90-91 are dying. These are historical data that shows as Mr Perot said the largest post war morbidity/mortality to date.

A new organization provides service of true value to veterans. Many companies are finally seeing the many needs of veterans and are stepping up to the plate to help veterans. So much is needed in the area of helping veterans this is a step forward. Veterans needs are so often neglected because they just are not seen or visualized. We need Oprah and all those Doctor shows on main stream media to truly focus on VETERANS and the many needs that are not answered for those that have given their lives to this country.

New Gulf War Illness Research funded from 2010 appropriated/authorized funds. Review of four studies funded in Canada, Wisconsin, California, and Colorado.

In continuing coverage, the Farmington (NM) Daily Times (11/26, Landry, 17K) reports on the impact of the memorandum signed last month between the VA and the Indian Health Service designed to improve the health of American Indian and Alaska Native veterans. The plan for coordination, collaboration and resource-sharing between the two agencies, was hailed by VA Secretary Shinseki as "a renewal of an important partnership" begun with a similar memorandum in 2003, "which recognized that both organizations would achieve greater success by working together." The memorandum "addresses 12 goals, including increasing services and benefits to veterans and American Indians, improve coordination of care, to enhance access to and quality of care and to address emergency and disaster response."

Federal Registry notice by VA on gulf war illness symptom clarification request feedback by December 17

Six Gulf War Veterans 1990-1991 died in the first week of November. Their ages were 44, 48, 54(2), 61, and one age not known

Reflections on the Midterm Election in relation to Veteran Issues Veterans are you aware you lost a fighter for veterans' health issues?  No matter your...

- "I wonder if  understands that the USPS and the Federal Government are one of the largest, if not the largest employer of (Veterans)...

Tuesday’s elections swept some key Democrats from House of Representatives, including the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and the first Iraq war veteran elected to Congress. Also gone is a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee who was one of the key proponents of improvement in military family housing and barracks, the House Budget Committee chairman who made sure there was money for improvement in military pay and benefits, and chairman of the veterans’ disability assistance subcommittee who have been pushing to eliminate the backlog of veterans’ benefits claims while trying to reduce the number of errors.

BLACK ALERT FOR GULF WAR VETERANS 1990-91 If you do nothing else today and this week, I beg you to watch this film! Tears are running...

Questions Continue For Gulf War Veterans of 1990-91 A study on Depleted Uranium effects on offspring.  This study needs to be evaluated first of all...

Depleted Uranium Induces Renal Damage and Inhibits Synthesis of Vitamin D From China of all places we have research on depleted uranium effects.  This research...

Veteran Service Organizations (VSOs) have not notified veterans of their possible exposure to environmental hazards at 130 military installations on the EPA National Priority List (Superfund sites). There’s a critical need for the VSOs to exercise leadership by notifying their memberships of the 130 military bases on the NPL, including the Contaminants of Concern and health effects of exposure to contaminants.

Hydrocortisone responsiveness in Gulf War veterans with PTSD: Effects on ACTH, declarative memory hippocampal FDG uptake on PET. Yehuda R, Golier JA, Bierer LM, Mikhno...