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February 2008 - Posts
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By Jay Price, The News & Observer, Feb. 28, 2008 Two groups trying to attract more defense-related business to North Carolina have created a database to link employers with a massive, but oft-overlooked work force: the thousands of North Carolina-based Read More...
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By Andrea J. Wright, Statesman, Ore. Journal, Feb. 28, 2008 First Sergeant told us the last time we was up there that some of these canes, from the first trip we made early last year, the Soldiers they are not using them. He said they are so proud of Read More...
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Tucker lauds progress but says more ‘hard thinking’ necessary By John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes, Feb. 25, 2008 BAUMHOLDER, Germany — Nearly a year ago, Col. Robert P. White was catching up on old times with his old boss, Brig. Gen. Read More...
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Staff Shortages, Other Issues Remain, Officials Tell House Panel By Steve Vogel, Washington Post, Feb. 28, 2008 The Army has significantly improved its support for service members undergoing medical treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and other Read More...
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By Terry Organ, The Kingman Daily Miner, Feb. 25, 2008 A local volunteer organization is raising money to aid the families of veterans injured on active duty in the ongoing war on terror. Weasels USA will conduct its second annual Wounded Warriors Project Read More...
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American Forces Press Service, Feb. 25, 2008 WASHINGTON – Veterans looking for a job in the Cincinnati area should have an easier time, thanks to a new partnership. The Thank You Foundation has partnered with Careers in Focus to offer resume services, Read More...
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By Joshua Lipton, Forbes, Feb. 23, 2008 Justin Callahan doesn't remember much about the landmine explosion that crippled him. He recalls only the echo of a large blast, and a shower of dirt raining down on top of him. Read the complete story at: http://www.forbes.com/personalfinance/2008/02/23/military-veterans-disabled-pf-philanthropy-in_jl_0223philanthropy_inl.htm Read More...
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By Edward L. Langston, MD, amednews.com, March 3, 2008 Ever wanted to fly on a C-17 cargo aircraft? You've seen it before. A big behemoth aircraft. I have wanted to climb on board since the first time I ever saw one years ago. On Jan. 23, I had the Read More...
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By Steve Vogel, Washington Post, Feb. 25, 2008 Fifty medical workers - doctors, nurses, therapists and administrators among them - sat in a room at Walter Reed Army Medical Center gazing at a slide of Donald Duck on a screen. The oft-cranky Disney cartoon Read More...
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Reported by Danielle Lerner, KSBY 6 News, Feb. 22, 2008 Another special group of cyclists rolls through San Luis Obispo Friday morning. More than 20 wounded military veterans cycled toward Los Angeles Friday as part of the Wounded Warriors Project's Read More...
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The Newport News Army post is part of a new program. By Stephanie Heinatz, Dailypress.com, Feb. 23, 2008 FORT EUSTIS, Va.— It was April 10, 2007, just before 6 p.m. in Iraq. Army Spc. Joshua Napier, a Gloucester native on his first trip to the nearly Read More...
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A job fair will be held at the Marine Corps Base Quantico Feb. 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the first hour reserved for wounded and disabled Soldiers and veterans. The fair is sponsored by the Quantico Wounded Warrior Regiment and will be held at The Read More...
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By Matthew Cox, Army Times, Feb. 20, 2008 In an effort to improve its combat helmet, the Army on Friday will outfit thousands of Soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, with special helmet sensors designed to record the effects enemy bomb blasts have on troops Read More...
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By Gary L. Kieffer, Outlook, Feb. 13, 2008 There have been considerable renovations on the buildings across the street from the dining facility at the Vicenza, Italy, installation. The USO and Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers, have moved their Read More...
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By Charmain Z. Brackett, Army News Service, Feb 12, 2008 AUGUSTA, Ga. - Although he no longer has his sight, 1st Lt. Ivan Castro doesn’t believe in it placing limitations on himself. “I have dreams and goals,” he said. “Because Read More...
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By Chrystal Smith, USAG Wiesbaden Public Affairs, Feb 20, 2008 WIESBADEN, Germany - Capt. Madalyn Melin was frustrated. Attempting to make yet another medical appointment, she was at the point of giving up. Then the phone rang. As she picked up, a voice Read More...
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By Elizabeth M. Lorge, Army News Service, Feb. 20, 2008 WASHINGTON - The Army is ready to launch a new phase in caring for wounded warriors, the assistant surgeon general for warrior care and transition told Soldiers and Army Civilians during an Army Read More...
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A job fair will be held at the Marine Corps Base Quantico Feb. 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the first hour reserved for wounded and disabled Soldiers and veterans. The fair is sponsored by the Quantico Wounded Warrior Regiment and will be held at The Read More...
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AFN TV Europe, Feb. 19, 2008 As long as they're out of the elements, a Soldier can bunk down and sleep just about anywhere. However, there are those who feel that troops wounded in war could use a little "tender loving care." In one military Read More...
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By Meredith May, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 19, 2008 Joseph Nannery of Fremont served eight years as a Marine before enlisting in the National Guard in 2001 and in March 2004, he was deployed as an infantry squad leader to Iraq. When he returned home Read More...
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By Rusty Dornin, CNN, Feb. 19, 2008 SUN VALLEY, Idaho - Ivan Castro, a former Army Ranger, gingerly makes his way down the ski slopes, guided by instructors down a snow-packed Idaho mountain. For this Iraq war veteran, his goal is simple: make it from Read More...
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By Fred W. Baker III, Newsblaze.com, Feb. 17, 2008 Outpatient care for the Army's wounded warriors is an "entirely new system" that is better now at taking care of Soldiers than it was a year ago, the service secretary said here Feb. 15. Read More...
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WALB News 10, NBC TV, Feb. 15, 2008 Calhoun County - More than a dozen Soldiers and Marines wounded in Iraq will be treated to a weekend of South Georgia quail hunting. The plantation owner hosting the wounded warriors says the community has rallied around Read More...
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By Terry Brown, Albany Times Union, Feb. 16, 2008 STRIDE Sports is turning to the community for help in its quest to provide 15 troops disabled by wounds in the Iraq war and their families with a Learn to Ski and Snowboard Weekend from Friday, Feb. 29, Read More...
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By Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service, Feb. 15, 2008 WASHINGTON – The Army has made huge improvements in the way it cares for combat-wounded troops during the year since news reports brought problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center to Read More...
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WASHINGTON, DC—Fueled by concerns over the costs that veterans in business are experiencing as a result of serving in the Global War On Terror, the U.S. Association of Veterans in Business (USAVETBIZ) announced that all National Guardsman and military Read More...
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By M. Scott Smith, DCSki, Feb. 14, 2008 On March 1-2, 2008, the Blue Ridge Adaptive Snow Sports will host a Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Project Snow Sports Weekend at Pennsylvania’s Liberty Mountain Resort. During the event, BRASS will host Read More...
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By Samantha L. Quigley, American Forces Press Service, Feb. 15, 2008 WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2008 – Military families have long used the U.S. Postal Service’s flat-rate shipping boxes to send care packages around the globe. Beginning March 3, Read More...
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By Yvonne Lee, CNN, Jan. 30, 2008 NEW YORK - Sgt. Ryan Kahlor has the same nightmare every time, a vision of walls painted in blood and fat, and men on top of houses, throwing pieces of Marines' bodies off rooftops. It's a vision he can't Read More...
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Report by Richard Rogers, WRDW CBS TV News 12, Feb. 13, 2008 WASHINGTON, D.C.- Augusta's efforts to help wounded warriors was front and center Wednesday in Washington. U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee Read More...
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By Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, Feb. 13, 2008 Two months ago, Maj. Jason Waggoner was writing mostly good-news stories for the Army from Iraq and collecting wish lists from Soldiers for Christmas care packages. He now sees the war differently, Read More...
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By Shelly Banjo, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 10, 2008 A new law will allow some workers to take unpaid time off in conjunction with a family member's military deployment. It also extends the leaves available to care for a family member injured in Read More...
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By Anne C. Mulkern, The Denver Post, Feb. 14, 2008 WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee blasted the Pentagon on Wednesday for sending a wounded Fort Carson Soldier back to Iraq, questioning whether it had been done to Read More...
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By Dale Eisman, The Virginian-Pilot, Feb. 14, 2008 A coalition of 54 veterans and medical groups threw its weight Wednesday behind a revised plan to have the federal government pay the college costs of veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sponsors, Read More...
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Senators Oppose Bush Proposal By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Feb. 13, 2008 WASHINGTON - Democratic senators warned Wednesday that a Bush administration proposal to cut VA medical center construction funding and boost prescription drug Read More...
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New advocate opens office at Knox WTU By Rachael Tollivert, Fort Knox Turret Associate Editor, Jan. 31, 2008 Severely disabled Soldiers and their families have just come closer to breaking through the bureaucratic wall so many of them hit when seeking Read More...
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By Karen Jowers, Army Times, Feb. 13, 2008 The Pentagon’s top doctor is calling on wounded service members and their families to share their concerns and recommendations in a live online discussion Thursday at http://www.health.mil — and e-mails Read More...
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Reporting by Tom Mustin, CBS TV 4, Denver, Feb. 13, 2008 DENVER—A 75-year-old Vietnam War veteran who lost his leg during heavy fighting in 1968 isn't letting his wounds slow him down. The amputee now works at the Denver VA Medical Center, helping Read More...
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Operation Homefront, Jan. 29, 2008 SANTA ANA, CA – Rowhouse Environment, LLC joined a growing list of builders offering steep discounts on new homes for wounded warriors. Its Evan’s Landing condominium project at Luna Pier near Detroit is Read More...
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Operation Homefront, Feb. 4, 2008 SANTA ANA, CA – Operation Homefront announced that Vantage Homes is the most recent builder to offer special discounts to wounded warriors on seven subdivisions in the Houston metropolitan area. Vantage Homes is Read More...
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By Jonathan Kealing, Basehor Sentinel, Feb. 12, 2008 Fort Leavenworth — In just five months, an idea to offer wounded Soldiers the chance to obtain advanced degrees at Kansas University moved from concept to reality. During a ceremony Feb. 6 at Read More...
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Roland LaFleur, rifleman and double amputee By Meg Heckman, Concord Monitor, Feb. 12, 2008 Omaha Beach was strewn with bodies when Roland LaFleur landed two weeks after D-Day to join the 3rd Army, 28th Division, as a replacement rifleman. His outfit captured Read More...
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The Illinois Warrior Assistance Program provides confidential assistance for Illinois veterans as they transition back to their everyday lives. Its goal is to help service members and their families deal with the emotional and psychological challenges Read More...
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Pentagon resists boost in benefits By Charles M. Sennott, Boston Globe, Feb. 10, 2008 WASHINGTON - Halsey Bernard made it through a tour in Iraq as a machine gunner. The question for him now is will he make it through the University of Massachusetts. Read More...
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By Les Blumenthal, McClatchy Newspapers, Feb. 10, 2008 WASHINGTON - For months, Spc. Rory Dunn lay in Bed 32, Ward 58, on the fifth floor of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, recovering after a roadside bomb in Iraq exploded and crushed his forehead from Read More...
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By Staten Island Advance, Feb. 9, 2008 Staten Island native Lt. Ryan Miller often dreams he is back in Iraq, patrolling the streets of southern Baghdad with his buddies in the Second Stryker Cavalry Regiment. Read the complete story at: http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/02/a_new_mission_for_staten_islan.htm Read More...
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Associated Press, KPTM-42 FOX News, Feb. 9, 2008 OMAHA, Neb. - Wounded Warriors is partnering with a Virginia charity that provides free airfare to veterans and their families when they must travel long distances to seek medical care. Read the complete Read More...
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American Forces Press Service, Feb. 8, 2008 WASHINGTON – Veterans pursuing higher education through DeVry University may be eligible for scholarships up to $1,000, but the deadline to apply is quickly approaching. Applications for 2008 AMVETS/DeVry Read More...
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By Heather Nauert, FOX News, Feb. 7, 2008 Dozens of tornadoes touched down in the South, wreaking devastation in four states, among the worst hit was Tennessee. Tuesday night, an unforgiving tornado wrecked the home belonged to Sgt. Jason Pepper, his Read More...
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By John J. Kruzel, American Forces Press Service, Feb. 7, 2008 WASHINGTON – The Army is aggressively diagnosing and treating Soldiers who suffer concussive injuries and stress related to blast attacks, the Army’s surgeon general said today. Read More...
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By Melissa Bower, Fort Leavenworth Lamp, Feb. 7, 2008 Eight Soldiers have been chosen to enter a "Wounded Warrior Education Initiative" graduate degree program shared between the Combined Arms Center and the University of Kansas. Army Secretary Read More...
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By Beth Hillyer, KNHL-8 TV, Feb. 6, 2008 SCHOFIELD BARRACKS - Times have certainly changed since the Vietnam days when thousands of servicemen returned to the U.S. not as heroes, but often as forgotten people. Now here on Oahu, the opening of a place Read More...
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State-of-the-Art Tech to Help U.S. Troops The Associated Press, Concord-Monitor, Feb. 3, 2008 Picking up a banana without squishing it is just one of the skills Chuck Hildreth has gained as part of a project aimed at helping U.S. Soldiers who've lost Read More...
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By Elizabeth M. Lorge, Army News Service, Feb. 4, 2008 WASHINGTON - When the New York Giants upset the New England Patriots' perfect season in the last two minutes of Sunday's Super Bowl, they did it with one of the Army's own as an honorary Read More...
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Army News, Feb. 6, 2008 Secretary of the Army Pete Geren and University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway will welcome eight Army Wounded Warriors into the Wounded Warrior Education Initiative Program as part of a joint announcement Feb. 6 at the Combined Read More...
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Specialized skills go unrewarded By Peter Schworm, Boston Globe, Feb. 5, 2008 When Sean Lunde enrolled at the University of Massachusetts at Boston in 2005, he expected his four years of training and experience as an Army medic in Kosovo, Germany, and Read More...
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By Arthur Staple, Feb. 4, 2008 GLENDALE, Ariz. - Giants coach Tom Coughlin addressed his team as he normally does at their Saturday night team meeting but he had a special guest address the Giants before Coughlin spoke. Lt. Col. Greg Gadson, who lost Read More...
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By Connie Lawn, DCSki Columnist, Feb. 2, 2008 We were greeted by large banners which proclaimed “Welcome Wounded Warriors.” Yellow ribbons festooned the buildings, inside and outside. Many people walked around wearing yellow ribbons, in honor Read More...
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By Tom Philpott, Air Force Magazine Online, Feb. 2008 A Defense Bill—Finally The much-delayed 2008 defense authorization bill that was finally enacted in January contains initiatives to raise military pay, enhance support for wounded warriors, and Read More...
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By Paul Burgarino, InsideBayArea.com, Feb. 2, 2008 MANTECA — From the time he exited a limousine to when he received the last of the gifts bestowed upon him, a look of surprise was fixed on Christopher Braley's well-traveled face. "This | |
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