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U.S. soldier arrested in plot to blow up New York City 9/11 Memorial
PBS - Tue Jan 19, 2021
HINESVILLE, Georgia - A US Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York Citys 9/11 Memorial and other landmarks and attack US soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said Tuesday.. More»

U.S. troops buy own gear for safety
Christian Science Monitor - Thu Mar 6, 2008
FORT BENNING, Georgia - Commando Military Supply on Victory Drive here is about as different from a musty Army surplus store as you can imagine.. More»

VA blasted over veterans suicides
CNN - Mon May 5, 2008
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Veterans Committee blasted the Veterans Affairs Department on Tuesday, accusing the agency of criminal failure to respond to evidence of rising suicide rates among former soldiers.. More»

VA denies money a factor in PTSD diagnoses
Associated Press - Tue Jun 3, 2008
A Veterans Affairs psychologist denies that she was trying to save money when she suggested that counselors make fewer diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder in injured soldiers.. More»

VA hospital may have infected 1,800 veterans with HIV
CNN - Sat Jul 3, 2010
A Missouri VA hospital is under fire because it may have exposed more than 1,800 veterans to life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis and HIV.. More»

VA to Iraq war vet: 'We're not accepting any new patients'
USA Today - Wed Jul 1, 2015
Iraq war veteran Chris Dorsey figured that no one would believe he had been turned away from a US Department of Veterans Affairs clinic when he sought an appointment for post-traumatic stress disorder.. More»

Vet Released from VA with IV Still in his Arm
WXPI-TV - Tue May 12, 2009
PITTSBURGH - A mother is up in arms after her son, a Vietnam veteran, is returned home from the hospital still wearing a gown and IV needle in his arm.. More»

Veteran Dies After Setting Himself On Fire Outside VA Health Clinic
Think Progress - Fri Mar 25, 2016
A New Jersey veteran has died after setting himself on fire in front of a state Department of Veterans Affairs clinic.. More»

Veterans Affairs Dept. tells Capitol Hill it won't repay underpaid GI Bill benefits recipients
NBC News - Thu Nov 29, 2018
For weeks, student veterans across the country have raised an alarm about delayed or incorrect GI Bill benefit payments, which the Department of Veterans Affairs has blamed on computer issues.. More»

Veterans Affairs faces daunting job of reducing medical claims backlog
CNN - Sat Dec 18, 2010
Washington - Veteran claims for medical benefits are still piled high at the Veterans Affairs Department, despite a major push from the secretary of the department for quicker claims processing.. More»

Veterans aren't getting their GI Bill payments - because VA's 50-year-old computer system broke
Washington Post - Wed Nov 14, 2018
Daniel Gorman knows what its like to return from war, and he wants to help fellow veterans come home, too: The former sailor turned New York National Guardsman is finishing a graduate degree in social work at Fordham University.. More»

Veterans left homeless due to state budget cuts
Atlanta Journal-Constitution - Sat Nov 29, 2008
This is moving day: Michael Seamands cramped home for the past five years is no longer his. The landlord, the state of Georgia, says he has to go.. More»

Veterans make up 1 in 4 homeless in US
Associated Press - Tue Nov 6, 2007
Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.. More»

Vets on the Street
Newsweek - Fri Feb 23, 2007
Kevin Felty came back from Iraq in 2003 with nowhere to stay, and not enough money to rent an apartment.. More»

Vets say they feel misled about GI benefits
CNN - Mon Apr 28, 2008
Cheated - Baited and switched - Thats how veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan say they feel about military recruiters who sold them on how the GI Bill would benefit them.. More»

Vets sue CIA, Defense over military experiments
Associated Press - Wed Jan 7, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Six veterans who claim they were unwittingly exposed to dangerous chemicals and germs during government-sponsored Cold War experiments have sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies.. More»

Vets with PTSD get benefits under settlement
CNN - Sat Jul 30, 2011
Washington - Anthony Kollers squad was ambushed in Iraq.. More»

Vietnam demands Agent Orange compensation
Asean Economist - Sat Aug 25, 2018
Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry has repeated demands that Monsanto and other US firms pay compensation to the country’s numerous Agent Orange victims.. More»

Walter Reed flap puts retirement on hold
Navy Times - Thu Aug 30, 2007
The Army will not process the retirement request of its former surgeon general until completing a review of last winters Walter Reed patient care scandal, officials say.. More»

Water makes US troops in Iraq sick
Associated Press - Sat Mar 8, 2008
Dozens of US troops in Iraq fell sick at bases using "unmonitored and potentially unsafe" water supplied by the military and a contractor once owned by Vice President Dick Cheneys former company, the Pentagons internal watchdog says.. More»

When the Army Uses "Enhanced Interrogation" on an American Soldier
Huffington Post - Wed Apr 14, 2010
I had been covering veterans issues for several years and thought Id developed a thick skin.. More»

Whistleblowers Treated Like Terrorists
Associated Press - Fri Aug 31, 2007
One after another, the men and women who have stepped forward to report corruption in the massive effort to rebuild Iraq have been vilified, fired and demoted.. More»

Why does Johnny come marching homeless?
Associated Press - Fri Jan 18, 2008
LEEDS, Massachusetts - Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.. More»

Witness: 'Cabal' at VA Is Killing Veterans
AlterNet - Sun Aug 1, 2010
Despite the recently announced intention by Secretary Eric Shinseki and his Chief of Staff, John Gingrich, to change the "culture" of VA, the agency is in the grips of a rogue bureaucracy that bypasses congressional oversight and sabotages veterans interests and health.. More»

Woman says father was bitten 100+ times by ants before death at VA Medical Center
WSB-TV - Wed Sep 11, 2019
ATLANTA, Georgia - "Overwhelmed, overwhelmed," Thats how Laquna Ross told Channel 2 Action News she felt after she found her dad with swollen, red bumps all over his body and his hands swollen when she visited him last week before his death at the Eagles Nest Community Living Center, a nursing home for veterans on the Atlanta VA Medical Center campus.. More»

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