Saturday, May 12, 2018

Veterans related links 051218



White House Chief of Staff Contradicts White House Claim on VA Shakeup: John Kelly told veterans groups last week that President Trump decided to remove VA secretary David Shulkin, despite the administration’s insistence that Shulkin resigned. The dispute could have legal implications for VA policies.


 

She Who Borne the Battle: IAVA’s Campaign to Fully Recognize and Improve Services for Women Veterans


 

"Prescribed to Death" opioid memorial raises awareness of prescription drug crisis


 

Leaked Anthrax Vaccine Memo Likely Authentic: The validity of a leaked memo about bad anthrax vaccine batches was confirmed as likely valid following analysis by a leading attorney in the field despite bureaucratic assertions saying the document was a "fake" and a "scam."


 

VA Updates and Improves Assistance Program for Transitioning Service Members


 

VA Takes Decisive Actions to Move off GAO High-Risk List


 

For-Profit College Owner Guilty In Bribery Scheme: The owner of Atius Technology Institute pled guilty to charges of bribery where a Voc Rehab counselor accepted kickbacks for steering disabled veterans into the college for retraining. The scheme earned Atius over $2 million in tuition and fee payments from VA Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment.


 

Legendary Special Forces veteran 'Iron Mike' has died


 

Central Bucks Family YMCA is proud to offer the Veterans Pathway Program.


 

Central Bucks Family YMCA


 

Lower Bucks Family YMCA VETERANS WELLNESS PROGRAM


 

Lower Bucks Family YMCA


 

Anthrax Vaccine: Five Things You Need To Know About The Leaked Army Memo.  While the Army has finally retracted its leaked memo, the agency's assertion that the memo is false warrants an evaluation of what we know to be true about the memo itself. Whenever Army asserts something is false, the American public must engage in intellectual self-defense to discern precisely what is known and what information we still need to know.


 

Trump Could Feed Every Homeless Veteran for the Cost of His Military Parade, Even Conservatively Estimated


 

Statement by VA Acting Secretary Robert Wilkie - Congressional Action on Veterans Choice Program


 

Are The Big Six In Trouble? Dr. Ronny Jackson Is Out, Jeff Miller May Be In


 

Trump VA Nominee Allegedly Got Drunk Overseas, Yawn: CNN is making hay over unsubstantiated allegations leveled by unnamed whistleblowers about RADM Ronny Jackson and whether he was intoxicated while overseas in 2015. Of all the news stations, CNN has published a multitude of articles about the allegations without providing much of substance beyond respinning of previously published information.


 

TIME Lists VA Doctor In World’s Top 100 Most Influential People


 

Veterans Choice Program Funding Almost Out


 

Will Trump’s Next Pick For VA Secretary Have Their Career Ruined, Too?  With the existing problems within VA, and the existing political climate surrounding all Trump's nominees for Cabinet, can America expect a quality candidate to run the agency?


 

Attached is the updated VISN 4 fact sheet for your use and dissemination


 

Million Veteran Program (MVP)


 

Comparative Health Assessment Interview Research Study


 

Social Media Blows Up Over Filthy VA Examination Room: One veteran's father kicked VA in the teeth when he posted pictures of a filthy examination room at Salt Lake City VA. Using Twitter, the concerned dad really took the agency to take, and more veterans should expose the agency's dark side.


 

Statement by Acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie - Chris Wilson Fox & Friends Interview


 

RAO Bulletin Update 01 May 2018


 

4 things you didn't know about Agent Orange


 

Big & Rich - 8th Of November [OFFICIAL VIDEO]


 

Former UPS Employee Allegedly Stole Painkillers Intended For Veterans


 

‘Some Men Never Came Back’: The second-longest-held American prisoner of war—and the first Vietnam War inmate at the “Hanoi Hilton”—talks about deprivation, torture and the will to outlast his captors.


 

Trump May Pick 40-Year VA Insider To Run Veterans Health Administration


 

RAND Study Says VA Healthcare As Good Or Better Than Private Sector, Again; Should We Believe Them? Is the newest RAND study merely another iteration of the stonewall-and-spin VA propaganda machine trying to convince the public that all is well within the agency and that veterans are a-okay?


 

‘Who the hell is this person?’ Trump’s Mar-a-Lago pal stymies VA project: The intercession of a well-connected Florida doctor infuriated those overseeing the $16B contract.


 

VVA Calls for More Action on Military Base Toxic Exposures


 

Field work begins to look into possible Agent Orange use


 

White House poised for more chaos over Veterans Affairs pick


 

National Nurses Week


 

Honor our military and civilian nurses at the 2018 National Nurses Week Wreath Laying Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, May 7


 

Mental Health Month


 

Mental Health Month


 

Mental Health Awareness Month


 

CMS opens Medicare evidence-based diabetes prevention services model to community healthcare organizations: Providers that earn CDC-certification for type 2 diabetes prevention can earn payments for treating patients that might not otherwise be screened.


 

VFW Rallies Support for VA MISSION Act of 2018: On May 3, 2018, House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Phil Roe, M.D., introduced H.R. 5674, the VA MISSION Act of 2018, which is the culmination of hard work by members of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs to consolidate and improve VA’s Choice Program, improve VA’s ability to hire high-quality health care professionals, expand caregiver benefits to pre-9/11 veterans, and establish a process to evaluate and improve VA buildings to better serve veterans. “VFW members around the country have made it clear that the VA health care system must be improved, not dismantled,” said Keith Harman, national commander of the 1.7 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. and its Auxiliary. “This agreement strikes a balance between improving access to VA doctors and leveraging the capabilities of the private sector when VA is unable to meet veterans’ health care needs.” The VFW calls on its members and supporters to contact their members of Congress and urge them to cosponsor and swiftly pass this important legislation.  THE VA MISSION ACT OF 2018 (VA Maintaining Systems and Strengthening Integrated Outside Networks Act); Title I - the Caring For Our Veterans Act of 2018


 

VFW-supported Bill to Revamp TAP Program: During the week ending May 4, 2018, Chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity Jodey Arrington introduced a bill that would revamp the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) by requiring service members to choose a track that would better prepare them for civilian life. The current curriculum sends all service members through the same training regardless of their future plans. With this change, troops would be able to choose classes that best prepare them for either education, entrepreneurship or technical training. VA benefits briefings and general employment preparation would still be included in the week-long course. Chairman Arrington is passionate about stemming unemployment, homelessness and suicide prevention among veterans, and he sees a positive transition as the first step in eliminating those problems. The VFW applauds his passion to help veterans, and will continue to work with him and his staff to ensure this bill becomes law.


 

Congress Hosts Panel Discussion on Women Veterans: VFW National Legislative Service Associate Director Kayda Keleher participated in a panel discussion with the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, alongside other VSOs, VA, congressional staff and researchers working to improve the quality of life for women veterans. The panel, which was moderated by Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Dee McWilliams, president of the Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation, discussed issues faced by women veterans regarding health care, benefits, transition from military service and social stigmas. Learn more about what the VFW is doing for women veterans.


 

V-E Day Commemoration: Visitors to Washington, D.C., next week are invited to the National World War II Memorial on Tuesday, May 8, for an 11 a.m. ceremony to mark the 73rd anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe. As part of the commemoration, WWII veterans will place wreaths at the memorial's Freedom Wall in remembrance of the more than 400,000 Americans and 60 million people killed worldwide during the deadliest military conflict in human history. Street and handicap parking are extremely limited, and the two closest Metro stations (Smithsonian and Federal Triangle) are about a half-mile away, but taxis are plentiful.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Marine Corps Reserve 1st Sgt. David H. Quinn, 24, of Temple, N.H., whose identification was previously announced, will be buried May 5 in his hometown. Quinn was assigned to Company C, 2nd Amphibian Tractor Battalion (C-2d Amp Tr Bn), 2nd Marine Division. On Nov. 20, 1943, Quinn’s unit landed on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll against stiff Japanese resistance. Quinn was killed on the second day of the battle, one of approximately 1,000 Marines and sailors killed in the intense fighting.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Marine Corps Reserve Cpl Raymond A. Barker, 22, of Evanston, Ill., whose identification was previously announced, will be buried May 5 in Delavan, Wis. Barker was assigned to Company C, 2nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Marine Division. On Nov. 20, 1943, Barker's unit landed on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll against stiff Japanese resistance. Barker was killed on the first day of the battle, one of approximately 1,000 Marines and sailors killed in the intense fighting.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Marine Corps Pfc. Harold V. Thomas, 21, of Columbus, Ohio, whose identification was previously announced, will be buried May 7 in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. Thomas was a member of Company F, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Thomas’s unit was one of those tasked with securing the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll. Encountering fierce resistance by the Japanese, almost 1,000 Marines and sailors were killed and another 1,000 were wounded in the battle. Thomas was killed on the first day of the battle, Nov. 20, 1943.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Pfc. Billy R. Ball, 20, of Matthews, Mo., whose identification was previously announced, will be buried May 4 in St. Louis. Ball was a member of Headquarters Detachment Philippines Department, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands on Dec. 8, 1941.  After months of intense fighting, Corregidor fell and American forces surrendered on May 6, 1942. Ball was one of the thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members taken prisoner and eventually moved to Cabanatuan POW camp. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the remaining years of the war. According to prisoner records, Ball died on Sept. 28, 1942, and was buried along with fellow prisoners in the local Cabanatuan camp cemetery.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Cpl. Terrell J. Fuller was a member of Company D, 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, supporting Republic of Korea Army attacks against units of the Chinese People’s Volunteer Forces in an area known as the Central Corridor in South Korea. After enduring sustained enemy attacks, the American units withdrew to Wonju, South Korea. It was during this withdrawal that Fuller was reported missing as of Feb. 12, 1951. Interment services are pending.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Sgt. 1st Class Rufus L. Ketchum was a member of Medical Detachment, 57th Field Artillery Battalion, 31st Regimental Combat Team, 7th Infantry Division. In late November 1950, his unit was assembled with South Korean soldiers in the 31st Regimental Combat Team (RCT) on the east side of the Chosin River, North Korea, when his unit was attacked by Chinese forces. Ketchum was among more than 1,000 members of the RCT killed or captured in enemy territory and was declared missing on Dec. 6, 1950. Interment services are pending.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Pfc. Oscar E. Sappington was a member of 3rd Platoon, Company C, 1st Battalion, 309th Infantry Regiment, 78th Infantry Division. On Jan. 10, 1945, the 309th Infantry launched a number of attacks in the Hürtgen Forest of Germany. At some point during the two days of action, Sappington stepped on a landmine. Though he was mortally wounded, no soldiers from his unit could reach him during the vicious fighting to render aid or confirm his death. He was reported missing in action as of Jan. 11, 1945. Interment services are pending.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Army Pvt. Kenneth D. Farris was assigned to Company B, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. On Nov. 28, 1944, Farris was wounded by artillery and left the front line for the battalion aid station. His regiment remained in combat for several more days, reaching the outskirts of Gey, Germany, before being pulled off the front line. When officers took an accounting of the surviving Company B soldiers, Farris could not be found. Interment services are pending.


 

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has announced identification and burial update and returning home for burial with full military honors is Marine Corps Pfc. William F. Cavin was assigned to Company F, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force. On Nov. 19, 1943, Cavin’s unit landed on the small island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll against stiff Japanese resistance. Cavin was killed on the first day of the battle, one of approximately 1,000 Marines and sailors killed in the intense fighting. Interment services are pending.


 

VA Offers Early Participation in a Faster New Claims Decision Review Process


 

Statement by Acting VA Secretary Robert Wilkie – Chris Wilson Fox & Friends Interview


 

VA Introduces New Feature That Allows Veterans to Securely Access Medical Images Online


 

VA Video Connect Expands Veterans’ Access to Health Care


 

Statement by VA Acting Secretary Robert Wilkie – Congressional Action on Veterans Choice Program


 

Statement by VA press secretary Curt Cashour on VA’s near-term priorities under Acting Secretary Robert Wilkie


 

VA’s Dr. Ann McKee Recognized for Her Concussion Research on TIME’S List of 100 Most Influential People


 

VSO Letter Supporting VA MISSION Act of 2018


 

Op Eagle Memorial Day Events


 

Audit: VA Spends $1.9 Billion On Annual Research, Earns Only $316k In Royalties.  The Department of Veterans Affairs has a horrific track record of managing its own resources, and apparently that is not limited to how it awards disability benefits. Here, VA ROI for research is dismal, spending $1.9 billion for a paltry $316,000 in annual royalties.


 

Delaware Valley Veterans Consortium 


 

Fox Business guest says torture is effective because it worked on 'Songbird' John McCain


 

‘It’s a circus’: Veterans advocate tells CNN he wouldn’t be shocked if Trump appointed Kanye to run the VA


 

Ding Dong Thomas Murphy Is Demoted Following IG Report Release
https://www.disabledveterans.org/2018/05/11/ding-dong-thomas-murphy-is-demoted-ig-report/?inf_contact_key=0a7af23dfdb315ce56511bd0f1ccfb097eaa1a531098d06db2b2a0445fe3edd4

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