By Debbie Gregory. At MilitaryConnection.com, we have been supporters of the Gary Sinise Foundation for many years. Since its inception in 2011, the Gary Sinise Foundation has helped close the gaps in support our defenders sometimes face, including building specially adapted smart homes for severely wounded veterans. The foundation’s RISE program (Restoring Independence Supporting Empowerment) […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Congressional Budget Office has revealed that eliminating the collection of retirement pay and disability compensation simultaneously could save the government billions of dollars. Changing the benefit, which is called “concurrent receipt” would affect some 600,000 military veterans who are able to collect both benefits. Veterans who sustained career-ending combat injuries are […]
By Debbie Gregory. You may not have heard of professional comic book artist Derek Rodenbeck. His road to entrepreneurship has not been a smooth one, but his attitude is one of perseverance. The Army sergeant returned home from a year’s deployment with post-traumatic stress disorder. Through no fault of his own, Rodenbeck was homeless for […]
By Debbie Gregory. Nevada’s public-private partnership to help meet the legal needs of the state’s active duty military personnel, reservists, National Guard soldiers and veterans has assisted more than 900 individual in its first year, according to the state’s Attorney General. Nevada’s @EASE program provides access to pro bono civil legal services for qualified service […]
By Debbie Gregory. Beginning next month, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs plans to begin online scheduling of medical appointments nationwide. The technological advance will allow the scheduling of primary-care appointments for more than 6 million patients via an app on their phones, tablets or computers. “Do I think this is a huge step forward for the VA? […]
By Debbie Gregory. Military veteran advocates are urging President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump to join forces and pardon tens of thousands of post-9/11 service members whose “bad paper” or “general” discharges were based on infractions related to mental health issues. John Rowan, the national president of the Vietnam Veterans of America says such […]
By Debbie Gregory. It appears as though the Veterans Affairs (VA) wait-times scandal has not curbed the flow of disabled veterans who want care through the department. In fact, the percentage of disabled post-9/11 vets with health insurance through the Veterans Affairs Department has increased 11 percent over the last few years. According to a survey […]
By Debbie Gregory. Decorated Army veteran Lisa McCombs, who suffers from PTSD, says flying the friendly skies with her service dog, Jake, has always been easy. But that changed a year ago, when she and Jake, a Labrador retriever, were barred from boarding an American Airlines flight, in spite of the fact that Jake was […]
By Debbie Gregory. While many veterans get some health care from private doctors, those doctors often fall short when it comes to identifying service-related illness. Jeffrey L. Brown, M.D., a clinical professor of pediatrics at New York Medical College who also teaches at Weill Cornell Medicine, said, “While everybody seems to be mostly focused on […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Pentagon is funding a treatment study that could be a life-saver for those suffering from PTSD. The treatment utilizes an injection of a local anesthetic next to a bundle of nerves in the neck. So far, it has eased post-traumatic stress symptoms in some patients in as little as 30 minutes […]
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