Will We Pay Our Debt to Our Veterans?
VCS ED Quoted. Water Reed scandal we helped expose is also discussed. From the Fix Soldiers are coming home from our two wars with a staggering rate of invisible brain injuries—and the addictions that...
View ArticleSuicides Outpacing War Deaths for Troops
From the New York Times By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS Published: June 8, 2012 The suicide rate among the nation’s active-duty military personnel has spiked this year, eclipsing the number of troops dying in...
View ArticleProgram Teaches Vets How To Survive The Classroom
From NPR By Daniel Zwerdling June 11, 2012 Most American troops have left Iraq, and many have left Afghanistan. Now more than half a million of them have left the service — and they’re going to...
View ArticleTroop HospitialIzations Are Up–VCS ED quoted
YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan — Hospitalizations of troops with mental disorders such as suicidal or homicidal intent and debilitating psychosis reached a 10-year high in 2011, underscoring the mental and...
View ArticleIraq, Afghanistan War Veterans Struggle With Combat Trauma
By David Wood From the HuffingtonPost HAVERHILLL, Mass. — Before her life fell apart, before suicide began to sound like sweet release, Natasha Young was a tough and spirited and proud Marine....
View ArticleArmy’s huge culture shift: No shame in mental health help
By Gail Sheehy, Special for USA TODAY Daniel Rodriguez joined the Army when his home life collapsed. His parents split. His father dropped from a heart attack. He was 18 and on the runty side for a...
View ArticleWar Wounds
New York Times OP-ED COLUMNIST By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF IT would be so much easier, Maj. Ben Richards says, if he had just lost a leg in Iraq. Enlarge This Image Daniel Borris for The New York Times Maj....
View ArticleFighting military suicides with peer counseling
(CBS News) The Pentagon granted a six-month extension Wednesday to a pilot call-in program for American military personnel considering suicide. The suicide rate among both active-duty troops and...
View ArticleWar might be making young bodies old
BOSTON (USA Today) - A litany of physical or emotional problems spill out as Iraq and Afghanistan veterans make their way, one by one, to the 11th floor of a VA hospital in the Jamaica Plain...
View ArticleVets jobs bill mired in Hill squabble
From the Washington Post By Steve Vogel, Published: September 18 A bill to put veterans to work preserving and restoring national parks and other federal, state and local lands has become mired in a...
View ArticleSergeant carried his secret anguish home
From the Leaf-Chronicle by Philip Grey CLARKSVILLE, TENN. — Sgt. Justin Junkin came home from Afghanistan to his wife and infant daughter in May 2011, carrying his weapon, his gear and a bomb inside...
View ArticleVeterans can find help through crisis line
By MARY WICOFF Commercial-News, Danville, Ill. Published: October 7, 2012 DANVILLE — Veterans in crisis no longer have to keep the problem a secret — especially if it’s something life-threatening,...
View ArticleHouse bill would speed disability payments to wounded troops
From Triblive.com By Carl Prine Published: Saturday, October 6, 2012, 5:36 p.m.Updated: Saturday, October 6, 2012 A bipartisan bill promises to speed disability payments to troops wounded in...
View ArticleChanges at Veterans for Common Sense
The Board of Veterans for Common Sense is sorry to announce the departure of Patrick Bellon as executive director of Veterans for Common Sense. Patrick will be moving on to take on bigger challenges,...
View ArticleVeterans Petition for Supreme Court Hearing
In one of the most important landmark legal cases involving veterans’ access to healthcare and disability benefits in decades, two veterans groups filed a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court on...
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From our partner EPIC: Putting Iraq back on the agenda | Veterans for Common...
For more than ten years, Veterans for Common Sense has worked hand in hand with our partner EPIC (The Education for Peace In Iraq Center) on national security issues and on Iraq. Ten years ago the...
View ArticleRepresentatives Vote against Veterans | Veterans for Common Sense
Originally posted at Florida Veterans for Common Sense Columnist Jeremy Wallace wrote a column in the Herald Tribune on Sunday, July 7, 2013 arguing that Rep. Buchanan and Rep. Rooney did not vote...
View ArticleVCS In the News: Pekin Times Editorial | Veterans for Common Sense
VCS’s 2007 lawsuit for veterans was cited in this May 29, 2014 Pekin Times editorial, “Veterans need real support from Congress“: In July of 2007 – during Bush’s administration, when Jim Nicholson was...
View ArticleVCS Lawsuit Proved VA Wait Times Led to Veteran Suicides | Veterans for...
In 2007, Veterans for Common Sense (VCS) and Veterans United for Truth and Justice, Inc. (VUFT), two veterans’ advocacy organizations, filed a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleGulf War Advisory Committee Letter Expresses Grave Concerns to New VA...
The following is reposted from 91outcomes.com with permission. *** “I ask you to please post … this letter RAC members sent to Secretary McDonald after the RAC meeting this week. VA staff now controls...
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