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A Former POW's Open Letter to Congress "I therefore call on my elected representatives to bring appropriate charges against President Bush . . ." More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS B-52H Reaches Retirement The first B-52H Stratofortress reaches retirement after more than 45 years of dedicated service to the country July 24 on its final flight to Tinker Air Force Base, Okla. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Bush Supports Increased GI Bill Benefits The Bush administration has endorsed a House bill that would improve the Montgomery GI Bill (MGIB) education benefits in several ways. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Servicemembers Have a Voice Without your input, some congressmen rely on their own lack of military experience to determine which benefits can be cut. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS VA Loan Increase Passes Senate The U.S. Senate recently passed H.R. 3221, which incorporated provisions to boost the limit on veterans' home loans. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Social Security Numbers Dropped from IDs The Defense Department will no longer issue identification cards with full Social Security numbers. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS New GI Bill Called Test of Commitment "The time for a new GI Bill for our post-9/11 servicemembers is six years overdue." More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Expanding Reserve Early Retirement Reservists and National Guard personnel mobilized for war and national emergencies for periods of 90 days or longer since Sept. 11, 2001, could see their age-60 threshold for receiving reserve retirement lowered under a new bill. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS New Overseas Voter Services Site The Overseas Vote Foundation (OVF) announced a new website that will provide user-friendly voter services to uniformed services members and their families. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Departments Implement Recommendations Two officials from the DoD and VA recently cited a list of changes in wounded warrior and family care in testimony to the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Committee Examines VA Care The Veterans' Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee recently conducted a hearing to assess how the VA cares for our most seriously wounded vets. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Military Health Budget Underfunded Bush administration officials again have saddled Congress with an under funded military health care budget by projecting $1.2 billion in savings they know will not be realized, say critics on Capitol Hill. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Bill to Cut Berkeley Funding Shot Down in Senate The U.S. Senate has shot down an amendment by a South Carolina senator to pull more than $2 million earmarked for Berkeley school lunches, ferry service and police communication equipment and transfer it to the Marine Corps. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Bill Proposes Travel Pay for Reserves Senator Ben Nelson introduced legislation to allow the Secretary of Defense to use DoD funds to pay for travel if a Reserve servicemember is placed on leave. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Bill Seeks to Increase Benefit Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) introduced legislation to increase veterans' compensation through a cost of living adjustment (COLA). More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS New GI Bill Plan Draws Raves and Worries Readers of Tom Philpott's Military Update column sound off on the Post 9/11 GI Bill. The new bill proposes sweeping changes to the current GI Bill. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS VA to Study Cemetery Rules Department of Veterans Affairs will revisit its rules that now prevent eastern Nebraska from qualifying for a national cemetery, a VA official said Thursday. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS New GI Bill may Boost Benefits At a time when the all-volunteer military of the United States is facing greater challenges both at war and at home, a battle is brewing in Washington over whether the government has a moral obligation to further subsidize the educations of those men and women returning to civilian status. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Veterans and the Mortgage Crisis The House Veterans' Affairs Economic Opportunity Subcommittee conducted a hearing on the problems facing veterans caught up in the subprime loan crisis. More Sign Up for Newsletter | Email to a Friend | Print This Page | Military RSS Committee Studies VA Construction The House Veterans' Affairs Health Subcommittee held hearings on fiscal year 2009 Construction Authorization for the Department of Veterans Affairs. 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Don GomezMoonwalking in Baghdad "One of the strangest things I experienced in Iraq during my two tours there was the multitude of "Michael Jackson" stories I brought home."
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