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Military Times
House lawmakers are looking to dramatically increase the number of veterans who can seek medical care
outside the Veterans Affairs system, but department officials want them to go even further. They’re arguing in
favor of an even more radical shift in traditional veterans’ medical care, opening community care options to
nearly any veteran and allowing free walk-in care at local doctor’s offices for routine appointments.
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Defense News
The U.S. Senate advanced its 2018 budget resolution, a key step for its top agenda item, a tax overhaul.
It was a narrow 51-49 vote, as Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., joined every Senate Democrat to vote against the bill. The budget, which had long been stalled, would protect a $1.5 trillion tax cut from a Democratic filibuster.
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October 10 and 17 survey results: What impact have you assessed from the President's views on social engagement or sustained indigence regarding equality in this country?
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Veterans Association of America wants to know...
If you're seeking employment, housing or medical services, what has been the time frame taken to acquire such assistance?
- 2 weeks.
- 30 days.
- 60 days or longer.
- It's hard to determine since I haven't been keeping up with the length of time.
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 Week
After a career spent serving their country on the battlefield, some veterans return home to serve in a different way: as teachers, training the young minds of America's future leaders and thinkers.
The skills and experiences veterans acquire during their service are incredibly useful within the classroom. Leadership, flexibility, adaptability, an understanding and appreciation of diversity — all help new teachers excel in their work. At a time when many schools are unable to find qualified educators, veterans are stepping up to fill in the gaps.
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Heleo
Most of us grew up hearing the mantra "Don't be a quitter," and we've internalized it to the point where we feel guilty even if we don't finish a book that's boring us to death. Our parents weren't entirely wrong in saying that persistence is necessary for success, but sometimes quitting is the most effective course of action. Whether it's a failed project, a thankless job, or a doomed relationship, quitting can be a virtue.
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Medical Xpress
Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas are exploring how mild stimulation of the vagus nerve could help alleviate symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. In a new preclinical study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry, the scientists found that mild electrical pulses to the vagus nerve indeed showed some protective effects against PTSD symptoms.
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MarketWatch
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit is a valuable federal income tax break available to employers that hire members of so-called targeted groups. Your small business can potentially cash in. Here's what you need to know.
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Military.com
A group of military spouses met with an influential U.S. senator Monday near Washington, D.C., to discuss
ways to reduce the high level of unemployment in their community. Gathering around a table with Sen. Tim
Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the spouses spoke
of the challenges associated with trying to keep a job or land a new one as their husbands or wives advanced
in their military careers.
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Center for American Progress
Despite vowing to support America's veterans, President Donald Trump and congressional Republican leaders have put forth budget proposals that are poised to do great damage to the economic security of veterans and their families &mash; all to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and corporations. In fact, for every $2 of the cuts Trump wants to make to services and benefits for veterans, which will total more than $154 billion over the next decade, Trump plans to give more than $3 to the adult children of millionaires and billionaires.
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Quartz at Work
Most workdays start with the right intentions. You begin the day energized, with an ambitious list of tasks and a manageable inbox. But things quickly unravel as meetings, email, and colleagues’ fire drills take over. Before you know it, your deliberate organization comes crashing down like an overextended Jenga tower, sending you home defeated.
Don't despair. The cycle can be broken and your good intentions can be rescued through prioritization, focus, and tapping into a resource that isn't finite, even if it sometimes feels as though it is: your energy. Here's everything you need to know about structuring your work day.
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PBS NewsHour
Jason and Rachel Hallett were eighth-grade sweethearts in Colorado, but their early romance didn’t last. Her parents didn’t approve, and so the teens went their separate ways.
But nearly a decade later, Rachel heard from Jason again on Facebook. “He sends me this friend request a couple years after I had kinda given up,” she says. “And when I saw what had happened, I just started crying.”
What Rachel saw were photos of what a homemade bomb laid by the Taliban had to done to Jason. After 9/11, he’d enlisted in the Marine Corps and, while on patrol in Afghanistan, he stepped on an explosive that destroyed both his legs, most of his right arm, and part of his left hand.
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By Dave G. Houser
 America is home to more than 35,000 museums — preserving and displaying just about everything from beer cans to barbed wire. The majority of them are brick-and-mortar repositories, but there's a genre of floating museums as well. Museum ships can be found in coastal harbors and inland waterways across the country. Most are historically significant naval vessels, decommissioned and conserved to live second lives in honor of their officers and crew.
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Task & Purpose
Chris Agron never deployed to a war zone during his stint in the Army. After four years in South Korea and a year with the 5th Ranger Training Battalion at Fort Benning, Georgia, the 24-year-old combat medic specialist separated in 2017 to take up a “really sweet gig” as a youth minister at a parish in Antelope, California. “My contract literally just ended this August,” Agron told Task & Purpose. “I never saw combat.” That was until Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico on Sept. 20.
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