Defense Secretary Leon Panetta pledged last year to “meet or beat” a 2017 deadline to integrate two health-records systems, one for troops and the other for veterans. Now, Panetta and Eric Shinseki, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, are...
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A combat-disabled veteran of the Vietnam War demonstrates his newly fitted Otto Bock Healthcare X2 prosthetic limb with a physical therapist at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington.
VA, Military to Beat Health-System Deadline by Changing Their Goal
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Vice President Joe Biden arrives during the presidential inauguration on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 21, 2013 in Washington.
Veterans Partied on Without Obama
President Barack Obama skipped the American Legion’s veterans ball for the second time, favoring his own inaugural event for service members. About two dozen recipients of the Medal of Honor joined hundreds attending the organization’s “Salute to Heroes” ball, a...
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Community and chain drug stores may have lost their fight in refilling maintenance medication under Medicare.
Retail druggists get lump of coal from Congress
Congress gave retail pharmacies a lump of coal for Christmas and may have tossed a few sugar plums to McKesson Corp. and Express Scripts Inc. Community and chain drug stores have spent much of 2012 fighting a push for more...
Read more »Agencies Help Vets; Don’t Ask How
With $1.2 trillion in automatic U.S. budget cuts looming, some federal agencies have gotten tight-lipped. Spokesmen for two federal agencies declined to discuss what their offices do and who they help once learning a Bloomberg News story would address the...
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U.S. Army soldiers works out at the Puli Alam patrol base in Logar Province.
All Troops to Get Rigorous Physicals
All U.S. troops will undergo “more detailed” physicals as they leave the service to make it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to process future requests for such payments, the Pentagon’s top official said. The Defense Department currently does...
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A veterans job fair in Naperville, Illinois. Photograph by Tim Boyle/Bloomberg
Veteran Hiring Preferences: Not Always — 18 Times No, GAO Says of V.A.
Vets come first under a 2006 law designed to give small business owners who served in the military first dibs on contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs. That is, unless they’re up against a few other preferred groups, according...
Read more »Veterans Home From War Battle V.A.
Army Sergeant Jeremy Barnhart says anyone wanting to know what it’s like to deal with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs can get a clue from the FedEx packages that land on the front porch of his San Antonio home....
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Job seekers speaks with an employer at the Veterans On Wall Street job fair in New York.
Labor Stood Ready on Veteran Data — Nobody Called After Last Debate
At least one Bureau of Labor Statistics staffer is willing to upset the White House, despite what you may have heard. Jim Borbely, an economist with the federal agency responsible for reporting unemployment figures, was ready to go toe-to-toe with the president over veterans’...
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U.S. Army SFC. Roy Hibbetts of Civil Military Operations Team, Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 4-73rd Cavalry, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, secures the outside of a project site where a school is being built in Zharay District, Kandahar Province on July 28, 2012.
Romney’s ‘Make-Up’ Speech to National Guard Gathering
Mitt Romney has been taking a daily dose of guff for not making any mention in his Republican National Convention speech of the protracted U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq. Democrats also have piled on for his failure in...
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Sgt. Joseph Barrow of 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1-17 Infantry, uses his scope to monitor suspicious men in the distance during an operation to remove tree cover used by enemy fighters near COP Ghundy Ghar in Zharay District, Kandahar Province.
Romney: `Going to Beat the Guy’ — Explains No War Talk at Convention
“We’re going to beat the guy, you know that?” Republican Mitt Romney told some supporters in New Hampshire today. “We’re going to get back the White House, we’re going to get back our country and we’re going to make sure...
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