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Vet News: VA Offers New Treatment For Veterans with Hepatitis C
WASHINGTON - Less than 10 days after a new treatment for hepatitis C was approved by the Food and Drug Administration FDA, the VA made it available to enrolled Veterans.
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Vet News: Veterans Benefits to Increase by 1.4%
WASHINGTON - Monthly compensation for 3.3 million Veterans and survivors will increase 1.4 percent in December.
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Vet News: Veterans, Service Men and Women Recognized and Remembered With Veterans Day Activities
With U.S. troops continuing to serve our country and defend our freedom, Americans are reminded of the gratitude we owe our military and Veterans of all wars. Veterans Day is an especially important time to honor those who have dedicated their lives to protecting ours. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the VFW Foundation and the Ladies Auxiliary VFW have aligned with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT), on a variety of programs to honor our Veterans and bring our service men and women a little closer to home.
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Vet News: War Trophies Can Be Illegal – and Dangerous
FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Throughout history, soldiers serving overseas have returned home with souvenirs and relics to remember their tours. Many war- related items on display in museums were brought over by individual service members.
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Vet News: VA to Care for New Generation of Combat Veterans
WASHINGTON - Military personnel who recently served in a combat zone are eligible for two years of free medical care from the VA for most conditions.
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Vet News: Sailor's Mom Organizes ‘Blue Star Mothers’
Jean Campbell’s son, Navy Petty Officer Steven Stefanowicz, is on active duty with the Navy in the Middle East. She is championing his service by uniting service members’ mothers in her home state.
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Vet News: Gen. Howell Estes, USAF (Ret) /Space Man
General Howell M. Estes III, who retired from the United States Air Force in 1998 after 33 years of service, currently heads Howell Estes & Associates, Inc., a wholly owned consulting firm to CEOs, presidents, and general managers of aerospace and telecommunications companies worldwide.Military & Veterans News
Vet News: A Hero on 9/11, Colonel Cites Indignities of Internment During WWII
If he were alive today, Kinzo Wakayama would be proud of the Soldier’s Medal on his son’s Army uniform.
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Vet News: Hispanic American Exceeds Dreams; Became Marine General
Michael J. Aguilar was in the seventh grade when he decided he wanted to be a military pilot and fly combat missions.
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Vet News: A Wartime Romance Blossoms at Bagram
Just over a month after 1Lt. Valencia Delavega got engaged last August, she received orders to Afghanistan.
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Vet News: Anchors away for Joe Parenti
WASHINGTON, April 19, 2002 -- Seaman Joseph Parenti is going to be a "nuke" - in Navy parlance, a nuclear propulsion plant operator aboard a submarine or aircraft carrier.
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Vet News: A Mom, a Recruit, and a War on Terrorism
MOUNT STERLING, Ohio, April 17, 2002 -- When Sonya Schilling learned terrorists had attacked the United States, her first thought was of her 18-year-old son, Joseph Parenti.
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Vet News: Old Guard Honors Tradition In Pentagon 'Battlefield'
Troops going into combat count on one thing: No matter what happens, their buddies won't leave them behind.
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Vet News: Authors Explain Special Ops in 'Shadow Warriors'
Shadow Warriors: Inside the Special Forces was recently released after Tom Clancy and retired General Carl Stiner added a chapter on the aftermath of September 11 and the current war against terrorism.
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Vet News: Scams Target Veterans for Identity Theft
WASHINGTON (January 22, 2002) -- An e-mail circulating about a retiree who had his identity stolen after filing separation papers at a county courthouse is no urban legend, according to Transition Center officials.Military & Veterans News
Vet News: Vietnam Veteran Launches 'The Vietnam Files' Web Site
EUREKA, Calif., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Vietnam Files Web site arose out of David Prendergast’s desire to put crucial documents into the hands of those across the United States who need them most. For more than 30 years, Prendergast has been assisting Marines by obtaining Vietnam unit documents. But the process was cumbersome, time-consuming, and generally incomplete. "You’d get what the officials thought you wanted, and you’d often have to go back three or four times," Prendergast says. "People were willing to assist, but the documentation was the weak point, and Veterans on the street can’t wait years for critical documentation."
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Vet News: Prominent Historian Admits Fabricating Vietnam Record
Joseph J. Ellis, the Pulitzer Prize- winning historian whose latest book, "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," has been a national best seller for 26 weeks, admitted yesterday that he had misled his students at Mount Holyoke College into believing that he was an airborne soldier in Vietnam when in fact he never served in Vietnam.
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Vet News: Now on the Silver Screen: Making ‘Band of Brothers’
WASHINGTON, August 16, 2001 - Audiences around the country are hearing firsthand about the hell that sparked an everlasting bond between World War II soldiers from a Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg production.
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Vet News: Recruit Attrition Rates Fall Across The Services
Recruit attrition rates are dropping across the services thanks to programs that try to prepare enlistees for the rigors of basic training before they ship out and revamped training policies.
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Vet News: New Funeral Program Teams Military, Vet's Groups
WASHINGTON, July 5, 2001 – The Department of Defense is teaming with veterans service organizations across the country to conduct traditional funeral ceremonies that honor the nation’s military veterans.
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Vet News: National D-Day Memorial Dedicated on a Virginia Hilltop
As our boat touched sand and the ramp went down, I became a visitor to hell.
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Vet News: The Case of the ‘Bogus’ Lieutenant
WASHINGTON, March 26, 2001 -- Bessie Coleman would not be deterred. She spent her life following her dream and eventually died because of it, but she blazed a path that women aviators have followed ever since.
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VA urges communities to recognize hospitalized Veterans during ‘National Salute to Veteran Patients’ week
WASHINGTON — Today the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced that, as part of an effort to honor hospitalized Veterans, it will mark National Salute to Veteran Patients from Feb. 10-16 by encouraging communities to seek out opportunities to volunteer at their local VA facilities.
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Vet News: SAS Public Sector to Sponsor Institute for Defense and Business Program
CARY, N.C. (April 14, 2004) – SAS, the leader in business intelligence, announced today a commitment to sponsor a program designed to bring together retired senior military personnel with leaders in the private sector and academia to study and facilitate the adoption of best business practices by the military.