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Military.com
Some of the country's leading veterans' service organizations are pressing lawmakers to defy lobbying efforts and legislation that they say will damage veterans' health care. In a letter to Congress, The American Legion urged lawmakers not to listen to veterans' groups that are merely "mouthpieces" for organizations intent on privatizing Department of Veterans Affairs health care, a move that it says will spawn "a host of billion-dollar federal contractors, private medical enterprises and cottage-industry opportunists."
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The Associated Press via Military.com
Veterans whose injuries have left them unable to conceive children may soon be getting long-sought help as congressional negotiations on legislation funding the Department of Veterans Affairs near a close.
At issue is a Senate-passed measure that would lift a 1992 law that prohibits the VA from paying for infertility treatments, such as in-vitro fertilization. The measure, by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., enjoys bipartisan support but there appears to be lingering resistance from anti-abortion forces who are opposed because IVF treatments result in the destruction of fertilized embryos.
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The Christian Science Monitor
In his first public appearance since pleading guilty more than one year ago to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified material, retired Gen. David Petraeus took a moment to warn against the dangers of the sorts of assault rifles used by the gunman who killed 49 people in an Orlando nightclub.
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Military Times
Fewer young Americans are pursuing careers in agriculture, a growing concern among the nation's farmers whose average age now approaches 60, and the federal government is hopeful that military veterans will help reverse the trend. But while more vets are expressing interest in farming, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, American labor statistics show no real upsurge in them taking jobs down on the farm.
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Fleet Owner
For an industry desperate for fresh talent, what better way to attract drivers and technicians than to introduce recruits to trucking by showing off the best and brightest rigs — and the successful people who build and operate them? That's what the folks at FASTPORT, trucking's military recruiting program, had in mind when they invited servicemen looking to transition into civilian careers for a day at the Shell Rotella SuperRigs show in Joplin, Missouri.
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Benzinga
Netfloor USA has hired its first military veteran through its "Second Win" program, created to find talented military veterans with experience in communications, electronics, IT infrastructure and access flooring, which are key to solving its clients' communications infrastructure problems.
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The Associated Press via Stars and Stripes
After losing sight in his right eye from a 2013 rocket attack in Afghanistan, retired U.S. Army Maj. Dan Thomas recovered with help from an equine therapy program at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Hoping to help other veterans, he and his wife traveled from their home in Alabama to Connecticut to purchase two massive, jet black carriage horses, animals that were put up for auction by the state after they were seized from a breeder in February as part of an animal abuse investigation and rehabilitated through a state program involving female prison inmates who help with the care.
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