Verizon, InComm Retailers and the USO Team Up to Provide Free Phone Calls to Active Duty Military Personnel so They Can Stay in Touch With Loved Ones

New York, NY – June 16, 2009 – Verizon, InComm Retailers and the USO are launching an initiative to let Americans demonstrate their appreciation for armed forces personnel serving America worldwide, just in time for the July 4 holiday. From June 22 to July 4, consumer purchases of Verizon Prepaid Long Distance Phone Cards at participating local […]

VA to face questions on Colonoscopies

Looks like the VA still hasn’t gotten it’s act together.. WASHINGTON — The questionable medical practices were first found at a Veterans Affairs medical center in Tennessee, then at VA facilities in Georgia and Florida. Now, Veterans Affairs officials will face fresh questions about patient safety at a House hearing Tuesday after an internal review […]

Priority Group 8 Enrollment Relaxation Changes (VA Medical News)

(Info from VA.gov website) In order to ensure the availability of quality and timely health care to veterans with service connected conditions, special authority based on military service, low income, and those with special health care needs, in January 2003 VA made the difficult decision to stop enrolling new Priority Group 8 (high income) veterans […]

Memorial Day 2009, My personal reflection.

This is the hardest holiday for me to celebrate. If you ask anyone they will tell you I become quiet and withdrawn. If you’re a Doc and are able to look at our list on our Memorial Page, and don’t know anyone on our Iraq or Afganistan list, you’re lucky and have probably just joined. […]

Five Universities Partner with VA in Nursing Initiative

WASHINGTON — To provide compassionate, highly-trained nurses to serve the health care needs of the nation’s Veterans, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is establishing new partnerships with five of the country’s finest nursing schools.  With these new partnerships, the VA Nursing Academy will expand the number of collaborations between the department and nursing schools […]

VA Welcoming Vets Home with New Web Site, Blog

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched its new “Returning Veterans” Web site — www.oefoif.va.gov — to welcome home Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts with a social, Veteran-centric Web site focusing on their needs and questions. “VA is entering the world of Web 2.0, because that’s where this generation of […]

GAO: Temporary retirement troops in limbo

Talk about a Cluster “F***!” This program has been a problem for years.  I have had shipmates who have gone through the Temp Retirement Board.  It is true that you can’t get on with your life. From the Air Force Times: A new Government Accountability Office report takes the Defense Department to task for a […]

VA unsure of extent of contamination

Updated: Friday, 27 Mar 2009, 8:19 AM EDT * By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press Writer CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – Thousands of military veterans across the South are waiting to find out if they were exposed to infectious diseases by government clinics that performed colonoscopies and other procedures with equipment that wasn’t properly sterilized. Veterans Affairs […]

A Sad Sad Day… One of our own, the Ultimate Betrayal

I was hoping it would be found there as a snafu. I was hoping someone would step up and say we screwed up, he’s “NOT GUILTY”. My hopes were dashed. One of our own plead guilty to falsifying documents etc, and wore a Purple Heart, a award he never was awarded. He was a Navy […]

Veterans Administration “Can’s” Workers for Fraud when working claims.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has reassigned the director of its New York regional office after finding that employees there mis-dated hundreds of claims to make it appear they were being processed on time. Without referring by name to the New York director, Patricia Amberg-Blyskal, VA spokeswoman Alison Aikele said last week that the director […]

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