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Nidal Hasan Emails Could Indicate Fort Hood Shooting Was A Terrorist Plot

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Pamela Hess, Anne Gearan - Nov. 21 (Breaking News) - WASHINGTON – The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials.

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Should Obama Fire Gen. McChrystal?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Ray McGovern - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - Facing military pressure to escalate in Afghanistan, President Obama may need an inner Harry Truman.

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U.S., Japan remain at odds over Marine air station on Okinawa

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Blaine Harden - Nov. 17 (News Analysis) - Many Okinawans, after decades of living with noisy American aircraft and rambunctious American troops, have come to associate the U.S. military presence with noise, pollution and periodic crime.

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Endless Obstacles Delay Veteran Benefits

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Aaron Glantz - Nov. 12 (Special Report) - The Department of Veterans Affairs routinely delays disability claims by wounded soldiers for months and years, often shunting them into homelessness. But there’s a simple way for the government to get disabled veterans the help they deserve. It can trust them.

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God, the Army, and PTSD

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Boston Review - By Tara McKelvey - Nov. 11 (Special Report) - During the Iraq war, however, the great difficulty veterans experienced in getting psychiatric care—greater than before—was not a product of cost-cutting, but of conviction: many Bush administration officials believed that soldiers who supported the war would not face psychological problems, and if they did, they would find comfort in faith. In a resigned tone, one prominent researcher who worked for the VA, and asked that he not be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the press, explained that high-ranking officials believed that “Jesus fixes everything.” Benimoff and the others who returned with devastating psychological injuries found a faith-based bureau within the VA. At veterans’ hospitals, chaplains were conducting spirituality assessments of patients.

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Healing our troubled vets

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - Nov. 11 (Editorial) - The public is kinder to its veterans today than it was during the Vietnam War, when soldiers risked their lives overseas only to face scorn from antiwar activists when they got home. Yet veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan may be having a harder time readjusting to civilian life than previous generations of warriors.

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Shinseki: Veterans' Mental Health a Priority

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By Daniel Carty - Nov. 11 (Interview) - Eric Shinseki, the retired four-star general who currently heads the Department of Veterans Affairs, said his agency is "working diligently" to better aid veterans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues.

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Obama Receives New Afghan Option

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By Peter Spiegel, Yochi Dreazen - Nov. 11 (News Report) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday will consider a new compromise plan for adding troops to Afghanistan that would deploy 30,000 to 35,000 new forces, including as many as 10,000 military trainers, over the next year or more. The new scenario combines reinforcements for fighting Taliban insurgents with trainers aimed at rapidly increasing the size and capabilities of Afghan troops to take on more operations themselves. It wouldn't aim to eliminate the Taliban, but weaken it until Afghan forces can secure major population centers themselves.

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Obama’s Top Advisers Lean Toward Plan for 30,000 More Troops for Afghanistan

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Elisabeth Bumiller, David E. Sanger - Nov. 11 (News Report) - The president’s national security team is coalescing around a proposal to send 30,000 or more additional American troops to Afghanistan, officials say.

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Energy Lobbyists Seek Support From Veterans

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jenna Staul - Nov. 10 (News Report) - Environmentalists on both sides of the fight for climate change legislation are hoping to enlist veterans groups as a powerful lobbying tool.

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Obama's Afghan Plan: About 40K More Troops

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By David Martin - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Tonight, after months of conferences with top advisors, President Obama has settled on a new strategy for Afghanistan. CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that the president will send a lot more troops and plans to keep a large force there, long term. The president still has more meetings scheduled on Afghanistan, but informed sources tell CBS News he intends to give Gen. Stanley McChrystal most, if not all, the additional troops he is asking for.

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Scientists: Nuke panel owes Utahns an apology

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Salt Lake Tribune - By Judy Fahys - Nov. 09 (News Report) - Three scientists say federal nuclear regulators owe Utahns an apology -- and a policy change -- for allowing shallow burial of depleted uranium, including the 49,000 tons already at EnergySolutions Inc.'s landfill in Tooele County.

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Female Cop Hailed as Ft. Hood Hero

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - Nov. 06 (News Report) - (CBS/ AP) Updated at 9:45 p.m. EST A military mental health doctor facing deployment overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood Army post on Thursday, setting off on a rampage that killed 12 people and left 31 wounded, Army officials said. Authorities

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Strain of deployments hit base

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Ann Scott Tyson - Nov. 05 (News Report) - Fort Hood, the Texas military base that was the scene of a mass shooting Thursday, has been hard hit by the growing strain on the Army from multiple combat deployments -- with its personnel suffering the highest number of suicides among Army

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Seven members of House defense subcommittee scrutinized by ethics investigators

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Carol D. Leonnig - Oct. 30 (News Report) - The investigations by two separate ethics offices include an examination of the powerful subcommittee chairman, John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), as well as others who helped steer federal funds to clients of the PMA Group. The lawmakers received campaign

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US diplomat quits over Afghan war