LatinaLista. While serving in the United States Air Force as a Crash Rescue Firefighter, veteran William H. Moore had his share of close calls but it’s one particular call that he remembers both with pride and regret. Moore successfully rescued two pilots from a burning F-111. Unfortunately,
Read more →USA Cares Program for Post 9/11 Veterans Posted: 25 Jun 2012 12:11 PM PDT I’d like to take the time to introduce USA Cares as a fantastic resource available to many of you. USA Caresexists to help bear the burdens of service by providing post-9/11 military families
Read more →Posted: 22 Jun 2012 10:31 AM PDT Natosha Monroe Let’s face it: Today’s United States military faces more pressure than any other fighting force in world history. I’m not talking about the pressure to survive and emerge victorious from conflict or a battlefield—this has always been a
Read more →WASHINGTON (June 20, 2012)– In a continuing effort to increase Veterans’ access to mental health care, the Department of Veterans Affairs has set a goal to conduct more than 200,000 clinic-based, telemental health consultations for all mental health specialties in fiscal year 2012. This follows VA’s announcement
Read more →What is the Family to Say and Do After The Vet Returns From Deployment? There is no adequate “cookbook recipe” of do’s and don’ts that all families of all Veterans returned from deployment should do and not do. This is for a very simple reason: no one
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Read more →Brain injuries so subtle they’re detected only by a very sensitive scan may predispose combat soldiers to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), researchers say. The study involved 52 war veterans from western New York who served in combat areas from 2001 to 2008. Approximately four years after their
Read more →A private foundation plans to construct state-of-the-art treatment centers for brain injuries and psychological disorders at nine of the largest bases in the country. The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund will begin construction this month on the first two centers, at Fort Belvoir in Virginia and the Marines’
Read more →Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said last week that the Pentagon has ordered all of the services to undertake reviews of their mental health diagnoses over the past decade. The Army had previously announced it was undertaking such a review. Panetta told a Senate panel that he is
Read more →As more and more troops come home due to massive drawdowns, many Americans welcome deployed military members back home with open arms and admiration for their courageous sacrifice. However, when a soldier decides to remove his uniform and re-enter civilian life, misperceptions about the veteran’s ability to
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