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Boston Glorbe
Officials at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have come out against a series of bills that are designed to protect VA benefits for veterans who use marijuana, allow the department's doctors to recommend medical cannabis, and expand research into the plant's therapeutic potential.
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WOBM
Jersey Shore Congressman Chris Smith, R - Monmouth, Ocean and Mercer Counties, has reintroduced legislation to enhance healing and recovery for veterans.
The Accelerating Veterans Recovery Outdoors Act (HR 2435) would provide veterans more recreational opportunities on federal lands.
"Veterans hospitals are renowned for intricate and comprehensive specialty surgeries and treatments, but we can and should do more," Smith said.
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Omaha
Tammy McCracken said her husband was fit and lean before he deployed to Iraq, a weightlifter and a runner with no history of serious illnesses.
But David returned home from Baghdad in 2009 with a persistent dry cough. Headaches came next. Then confusion, disorientation and memory loss. On the day he learned of his promotion to colonel in 2011, his doctors in Atlanta performed a biopsy and found a brain tumor. It would kill him in less than a year. He died at 46, leaving behind three children. Tammy is certain of what caused his cancer — the vast open-air burn pits the U.S. military used to eliminate all kinds of waste in Iraq.
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Military.com
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan was grilled by lawmakers on the lengthy and costly effort to develop compatible electronic records systems between the Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Military.com
The Department of Veterans Affairs opposes three legislative proposals that would expand research on medical marijuana at the VA and give veterans access to the drug in states where it is legal.
During a hearing on eight VA health-related bills under consideration by Congress, VA officials told House lawmakers that as long as marijuana is illegal under federal law, the department cannot support legislation that promotes its role at the VA.
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The Telegraph
Scottie Johnson served 25 years in the U.S. Army's Field Artillery Division, including deployments in Iraq, Bosnia and twice in Afghanistan as a 13B cannon crew member.
On a recent Saturday night, the 51-year-old was doing something he said many people, including his old Army buddies, find surprising. He was preparing a three-course, gourmet dinner in a Warner Robins couple's home as they entertained a business colleague, a client and their wives.
Johnson never lifted a spatula in the Army and his wife was responsible for most of the cooking at home. But Johnson was mesmerized by cooking shows.
Today, Johnson, who lives in Kathleen, is best known as "Chef Scottie."
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Forbes
When you are mindful about it, there is always enough time. There is enough time for work, for family and friends, for exercise, for sleep and for other things that we enjoy, find meaningful or need for our health and well-being. Keeping a time log for a week or two can reveal where your hours may be being unintentionally spent, especially because we humans have a tendency to overestimate the time we spend working and care-taking, and we underestimate the number of hours we spend doing things we consider fun or leisure.
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Wadena Pioneer Journal
Compiled from data from many sources, below are the top 10 reasons veterans don't pursue
benefits.
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The Washington Post
In this piece, Mike Saunders, director of military and consumer policy at the advocacy group Veterans Education Success, provides detailed help and explains the system that allows veterans to still get cheated.
Veterans Education Success is an organization that works to help veterans, service members and military families go to college successfully, and to protect federal education programs, including the GI Bill.
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Military.com
The Department of Veterans Affairs is accepting applications for the Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses (VET TEC) program.
The VET TEC program, part of the new Harry W. Colmery Veterans Educational Assistance Act, also known as the "Forever GI Bill," is meant to help veterans get the cutting-edge skills they need to succeed in today's high-tech industries.
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VC Star
In January, volunteers across America fan out and count all the homeless people they can find – sheltered people in temporary housing and soup kitchens and unsheltered people sleeping in parks, freeway underpasses, watersheds and in vehicles. The numbers from this past January were recently released, and it's no surprise to those of us living in Southern California that homelessness is increasing — both in the state of California and nationally.
No veteran should be homeless today, with the great resources our country has to offer.
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Veterans Association of America wants to know ...
Does the VA actually take care of their veterans like they're supposed to?
- They have for a long time.
- I'm not so sure about that if we are comparing the stories I've heard.
- The VA is one of the most important entities veterans have.
- It really depends on who you speak with, it's completely subjective.
- They have too many civilians in positions that should be filled with veterans that's one of the main reasons care has dropped because they truly don't give a damn.
Click here to provide Veterans Association of America your answer.
We assess all answers with the utmost of care and consideration. Survey results revealed in next week's VAA Dispatch.
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