Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
The VA will start processing PACT Act claims on January 1, 2023
If you’re experiencing what you believe is an ailment related to the PACT Act, the VA will start processing claims on January 1, 2023. The PACT Act is The Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act. The VA updated their list of presumptive conditions that veterans can file disability […]
Unreported Head Injuries
The link below includes video of Iran’s missiles hitting US base in Iraq. https://www.militarytimes.com/video/2020/01/08/iranian-rockets-hit-bases-us-targets-in-iraq-newsbreak/ An explosion that is not a direct impact but has a shockwave can cause head injuries that may go unreported. This article addresses those possible head injuries suffered by troops in Iraq and elsewhere, but not reported by them until later […]
Marine War Veteran Sucker-Punched
Several news outlets carried this story yesterday and today, although it happened on April 24, 2019. Veteran Speaks Out After Being Sucker Punched (WSVN Channel 7) Marine Veteran Attacked by Drunken Men (KTUU Channel 2) A Marine, who they only identified as “Mitch,” was out dining at a restaurant when a group of rowdy […]
American ISIS bride who left for Syria now wants to come home
Hoda Muthana and son Honda Muthana is one of a small number of U.S. citizens who’ve joined ISIS, but America’s Syrian allies are thought to be holding around 800 foreign ISIS fighters along with their wives and children. Muthana has expressed remorse and the U.S. government hasn’t said what will happen to her and her […]
Veteran Suicide Data Report
The VA published this year’s suicide data for veterans. According to their raw numbers, there were 16.6 veterans a day who committed suicide. If we deduct veterans suffering in pain from some terminal illness who decided not to end their life in a puddle of their own piss…that number gets dramatically reduced. Feel free to read the study […]
It’s not like we haven’t been warning about IAVA
Back in 2009, I ran down the case that Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association isn’t the non-partisan Veterans Service Organization that it claims. In 2012, I told you about IAVA executive director Paul Rieckhoff’s embellishment of his awards. We’ve been warning that IAVA is not what it appears to be, that they are not in […]
Beware IAVA’s Vetmoji
Richard sends us a link to Popular Science which warns about Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America-commissioned emoji application for smart phones. It’s supposed to be a clever little thing to add to your phone so you can use emojis that have little patrol caps and military-oriented subjects; I was super excited when I got […]
Paul Rieckhoff should check his veterans’ privilege
I’m not a Donald Trump fan by any stretch of the imagination. He can’t handle criticism from Megan Kelly, but he wants to be President. There’s a debate among the Republican candidates and Trump took his marbles, what few he has left, and decided that he won’t participate in the debate because Kelly scares him. […]
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