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Navy Dispatch
The Department of Defense recently announced a renewed effort to ensure veterans are aware of the opportunity to have their discharges and military records reviewed. Through enhanced public outreach, engagement with Veterans Service Organizations, Military Service Organizations and other outside groups, as well as direct outreach to individual veterans, the department encourages all veterans who believe they have experienced an error or injustice to request relief from their service's Board for Correction of Military/Naval Records or Discharge Review Board.
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Veterans Association of America wants to know...
How has the general Presidential election made you feel?
- I'm not really sure.
- Not very good since Donald Trump won the election.
- I have mixed feelings about the entire election.
- I'm not happy at all because the new President comes with a lot of bigotry and hate.
Please provide your unique response as we take each them very seriously..
As a reminder, we assess all answers with the utmost of care and consideration. Survey results revealed in next week's VAA Dispatch.
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The Associated Press via Reuters
The Obama administration has agreed to provide disability benefits worth some $2.2 billion to veterans who were exposed to contaminated drinking water while at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, the Associated Press reported.
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Stars and Stripes
After a stinging legislative defeat, about 90,000 sailors who served in Vietnam have an another shot this year at getting coverage for Agent Orange-related health problems.
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The Recorder
Air Force veteran John Paradis' snoring stutters like a chainsaw before he stops breathing.
Paradis, 53, gasps for air, choking back to consciousness after his airways collapse over and over again throughout the night. He is fighting to get a full night's rest because he suffers from obstructive sleep apnea, a condition that stops his breathing more than 30 times every night. He wakes up and tosses and turns, until he rises groggy in the morning. Plagued with sleep problems since he returned from military duty in Iraq 12 years ago, Paradis finally received a diagnosis a month ago and is about to be fitted with an overnight breathing machine that is expected to relieve his symptoms.
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Four month average turn around with the VA’s Pension with Aid and Attendance
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AmeriForce
New government research showed that female military veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other women. It is a startling find that brings up questions about the backgrounds and experiences of women who have served in the armed forces.
Their suicide rate is so high that it approaches that of male veterans, a finding that surprised researchers, because men, generally, are far more likely than women to commit suicide.
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Military Times
Military advocates are hopeful that, with Donald Trump in the White House, troops' pay and benefits will improve in coming years. But they're not letting their guard down just yet. Trump has promised to 'rebuild the military" through increased funding and he has hinted at improving compensation in the process. But that will depend on cooperation from Congress, where military advocates have found allies and enemies in recent years.
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Military Times
The unemployment rate for Afghanistan- and Iraq-era veterans dropped to 5.7 percent in December, according to information released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rate was down from November's 6.5 percent. The overall rate for post-9/11 veterans in 2016 was 5.1 percent, the lowest annual rate since the government started tracking unemployment among these veterans in 2008.
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Stars and Stripes
After two years of study and debate, the Department of Defense has made a policy change, effective next November, to allow 16 million honorably discharged veterans to shop online for discounted military exchange products.
Peter K. Levine, acting undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, signed a memorandum announcing the benefit expansion, effective Veterans Day (Nov. 11), and giving Congress the required 30 days' notice before actions begin to implement the plan.
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ABC News
President-elect Donald Trump says he intends to nominate David Shulkin to be secretary of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Shulkin has been the department's undersecretary for health since 2015, after being nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate. The position was one of Trump's final Cabinet-level roles yet to be announced.
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Military Times
The highest-ranking enlisted soldier in Congress will serve as the Democrats' top voice on veterans issues in the House this session.
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KY Forward
Volunteering improves physical health, mental health and social outcomes for post-9/11 military veterans, according to a recent study co-authored by Karen Lawrence, assistant professor at the University of Kentucky College of Social Work.
The study is the first national study of civic service among United States military veterans and will be published in the February 2017 print issue of Psychiatry Research. "It is really interesting to me that, out of all the participants, veterans who screened positive for probable post-traumatic stress disorder before the program showed the largest improvement in perceived self-efficacy at the end," Lawrence said
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