By Debbie Gregory. In March, 2015, more than 30 Senators and Congressmen formed a new Congressional Post-9/11 Veterans Caucus. There are currently 31 elected leaders in the House and the Senate who have served in the military since September 11, 2001. Of those 31, 26 of them were deployed to either Iraq or Afghanistan. These […]
Video URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zIiOmJVfHU#t=29 By Debbie Gregory. Over the course of our technological progression, many tangible products have developed from concepts that were once just fantastical dreams. Previously, these ideas could only be found in the pages of books and in the make believe universes created for the big and small screens. Objects such as […]
By Debbie Gregory. A federal initiative to have the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provide timely decisions on disability payments to Veterans has passed another milestone on its way to eliminating the backlog of benefits claims. The initiative has called for a major effort in applying new technology to transform the benefits claims process at […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Army is in the process of investigating all of its substance abuse out-patient treatment centers in response to claims that as many as half of the clinics were operating at substandard levels, and that thousands of soldiers are being denied the help they need. After fourteen years of war, many soldiers, […]
By Debbie Gregory. Recently, the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) began bolstering its security, including carrying out increasingly realistic tests of its missile defenses. Officials from the MDA have begun undertaking these measures due to the fact that North Korea has fielded hundreds of missiles that have the capability of reaching U.S. forces based in […]
By Debbie Gregory. Military personnel are highly reluctant to ask for help when they are depressed because they do not want to be seen as weak. But untreated depression is the number one cause for suicide, so those who are depressed and do not seek help are at risk for suicide. So what can be […]
By Debbie Gregory. So often, there is a stigma attached to service men and women who struggle with psychological health concerns, but not many people know that some of our own Presidents shared these struggles. No one would ever expect the general who led the Union army to victory in the Civil War to have […]
By Debbie Gregory. On April 8, 2015, one American soldier was shot and killed, and as many as three others were injured. The fatality and injuries were the result of an incident in the city of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, when an Afghan soldier fired on the troops. The shooting occurred following a meeting between an official […]
By Debbie Gregory. The VA estimates that as many as one in five Veterans who were combat deployed experience varying degrees of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The number of suicides among Veterans is over 8,000 per year, or an average of 22 per day. The unemployment rate among this era of Veterans remains higher than their […]
By Debbie Gregory. According to military accounts, American and allied forces in Iraq found approximately 5,000 chemical weapons, including bombs, warheads, and shells, stashed away by Saddam Hussein’s regimefrom 2004 to 2011. Most of the chemical weapons uncovered by the U.S. military pre-dated the 1991 Persian Gulf War, and were reported to be in deteriorating […]
