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Critics: Army holding down disability ratings
The Army is deliberately shortchanging troops on their disability retirement ratings to hold down costs, according to veterans’ advocates, lawyers and services members, and the Inspector General has identified 87 problems in the system that need fixi |
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Gaps in Mental Care at Fort Carson
Six months ago, an NPR investigation found that leaders at Fort Carson, Colo., were punishing some soldiers who returned from war with serious mental health problems — and were preventing them from getting the treatment they needed. In some cases, of |
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Today\'s Disability Retirement Squeeze Began Years Ago
Wary of rising disability retirement costs, the Department of Defense under then-secretary Caspar Weinberger quietly sought and received an internal legal opinion that, to this day, tamps down the number of wounded or ill service members awarded mili |
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General: Turn Disabled Ratings Over to VA
Head of the Veterans' Disability Commission advocates taking away initial disability determination from the military services and assigning the responsibility to the VA. |
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Injured Troops Struggle to Get Health Care
NPR broadcast explaining the 30% Disability Shell Game |
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Insult to Injury
New data reveal an alarming trend: Vets' disabilities are being downgraded |
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Valor and Squalor
For all its cries of “support the troops,” the Bush administration has treated veterans’ medical care the same way it treats everything else: nickel-and-diming the needy, protecting the incompetent and privatizing everything it can.
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It Is Just Not Walter Reed
Soldiers Share Troubling Stories Of Military Health Care Across U.S. |
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Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet
The retaliation begins. Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media. |
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Twice Wounded
A story about the systematic "low balling" of disability benefits. |
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Newsweek: Forgotten Heroes
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Newsweek: Vets on the Street
Hundreds of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are ending up homeless. How could this happen?
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Galloway: Walter Reed Hospital Scandal is \'The Last Straw\'
As The Washington Post probe proves, there's more to supporting our troops than making "Support Our Troops" a phrase that every politician feels obliged to utter in every speech, no matter how craven the purpose. How can they look at themselves in th |
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Benefits of the Doubt
Badly wounded veterans should have an easier time getting disability compensation.
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Damaged and Adrift in the Shadows
When the Senate next debates whether to debate the Iraq war, members would do well to visit Walter Reed Army Medical Center, just five miles to the north. There they can run a stark reality check on how the country is failing the war’s wounded despit |
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Serious barriers to accessing quality mental health care
WASHINGTON, DC—A report of the American Psychological Association (APA) released today calls attention to the increasing mental health needs of military personnel and their families - needs that are straining the current military health services. |
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