Vietnam Veteran Finds Comfort In Horses

Vietnam Veteran Finds Comfort In Horses, Helps Others Vets Cope
WYSO
By ADRIAN HILL
NOV 25, 2015

William Goforth ADRIAN HILL WYSO

Vietnam veteran William Goforth knows firsthand the challenge of returning to civilian life after a difficult deployment.

He found comfort in horses, and now finds purpose in sharing his discovery with Post-9/11 veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Army veteran, and Wright State student, Adrian Hill of Englewood has today’s Veterans’ Voices story.

William Goforth was drafted into the Vietnam War as a generator mechanic but once there he was assigned to tactical combat casualty care where he tended to critically wounded soldiers. When William returned home after serving he did not receive a hero’s welcome.

"I faced the same problems that everyone else faced," says William. "We came back and we weren’t welcomed and we didn’t feel like we were part of this world and we weren’t. We were a different individual after we went through the zone that we went through. It takes a lot of time to forget and you aren’t going to be able to forget, so you have to deal with it."

William’s way of dealing with his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was by working with horses.
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Ohio 90 Year Old WWII Veteran Robbed At Knifepoint

Robber who threatened 90-year-old WWII veteran has been identified, sheriff's office says 
Deputies on the lookout for Brandon Wilson, 23
WCPO Staff
Nov 4, 2015

CLEVES, Ohio — The suspect in the robbery of a 90-year-old World War II veteran at knifepoint has been identified, the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office says.

Deputies are looking for Brandon Wilson, 23, last known to be living in Owenton, Kentucky. Wilson is 5-feet, 11-inches and approximately 220-230 pounds. He has short dark hair and brown eyes with multiple tattoos on his right lower arm and a star tattoo on his left elbow. read more here

Ohio Police, Firefighters and First Responders May Get Comp for PTSD, Finally!

Ohio Senate panel to weigh police PTSD compensation bill 
By The Associated Press
Published: October 13, 2015

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Emergency responders with post-traumatic stress disorder could be eligible for workers’ compensation benefits regardless of whether they have suffered any physical injuries under legislation before an Ohio Senate panel.

The bill would apply to police, peace officers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians with PTSD arising from work. read more here

Police Search for Missing Donated Funds to Fix Memorial Stone

Police seek information regarding donations for damaged memorial 
Circleville Herald
By Sarah Gillespie Staff Reporter
September 17, 2015

The vandal of the site appeared to have carved away at Army Spc. Jenkins’ face and stole flags and an Afghanistan bronze marker.

By Nancy Radcliff/Photographer The Circleville Police Department is investigating the alleged disappearance of funds raised to repair damage to the memorial of the late Army Spc. Gerald R. (Bub) Jenkins. The monument was vandalized in April.

The monument of the late Army Spc. Gerald R. (Bub) Jenkins was vandalized in Forest Cemetery April 25. While the monument has since been covered by a black cloth in a special ceremony held by the 1st Iron Horse Buckeye Battalion, some are questioning the whereabouts of funds that were raised to repair the damage.

Jenkins’ father, Roger Jenkins, requested those interested in donating money to help the family with monument repairs to send a check or money order to a Tarlton P.O. Box or by contacting him directly on his personal cell phone.

“A few people reported they heard [Jenkins] spent money on things other than the monument,” said Acting Circleville Police Chief Shawn Baer.

Baer explained after receiving these complaints, Circleville detectives soon launched an investigation. Jenkins’ ex-wife, Carla McNamara, who is also Spc. Jenkins’ mother, said she received a voicemail from Jenkins stating he could not face her.

“I’m hurt, I’m mad,” said McNamara. “He won’t face me. What possessed him to do something like that?”
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Judge Rules For Disabled Veterans, Slams Bureacrats

Judge blasts bureaucrats, reinstates benefits for wounded combat veteran 
McClatchy
Michael Doyle September 15, 2015

Minney enlisted in the Navy in 1985, serving both in active duty and in the reserves. He also worked as a firefighter and civilian paramedic in Ohio. He was wounded at the Haditha Dam while attached to the Marines as a field corpsman. The attack came late in the afternoon of April 18.

Navy corpsman Glenn Minney badly wounded in Iraq
Judge says federal benefits were ‘extinguished on a technicality’
Office of Personnel Management bureaucrats sharply criticized in opinion

A former Navy corpsman badly wounded in Iraq will have his federal benefits restored, following a judge’s ruling that repeatedly blasts bureaucrats for their rigidity.

In a remarkably sharp-edged opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ordered the Office of Personnel Management to restore benefits to 21-year Navy veteran Glenn Minney. Minney was left nearly blind following a mortar attack at the Haditha Dam in April 2005.

When Minney retired from the Navy and federal service and started working for the Blinded Veterans Association, federal officials cut his government benefits because of his private salary. Minney said he wasn’t adequately informed that his disability payments were at risk; the letter sent to him, for instance, was not in Braille.

Leon called the move a “profound injustice committed by the federal bureaucracy against a blinded veteran.”

In his 18-page decision, Leon granted Minney’s request for a preliminary injunction and directed the OPM to reinstate Minney’s disability payments under the Federal Employee Retirement System.

“Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a situation more extraordinary, or an individual more deserving, of such relief,” Leon wrote.
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Ohio Guardsman Faces Charges for 130 Skipped Funerals

Guardsman Accused of Billing for 130 Funerals He Didn't Attend
Dayton Daily News
by Josh Sweigart
Sep 09, 2015

An Ohio National Guardsman from Kettering accused last week of claiming thousands of dollars in mileage reimbursements for area honor guard duty he didn't attend told investigators he was at the funerals secretly observing the soldiers performing the services.

He could not explain, however, how he performed a funeral at 10 a.m. in Kettering, then traveled roughly 94 miles to Lima to observe a funeral at 11 a.m., and then drove another 94 miles to West Alexandria to perform a funeral at 12:30 p.m., according to a report released Friday by the Ohio Inspector General.

Sgt. 1st Class Jason Daniel Edwards, 38, was indicted last week in a Franklin County court after an OIG investigation concluded he billed for $10,852 in mileage reimbursements for 130 funerals he didn't attend.

Edwards is charged with the third-degree felonies of theft in office and tampering with records. Each carries a maximum penalty of up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Edwards was a part-time Guardsman after a 17-year military career that included coordinating military funerals in the Dayton area. When he moved to part-time in 2014, his sister took over the task of coordinating the funerals but Edwards kept doing it, according to the OIG report.
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Air Show Claimed Life of 5 Tour OEF OIF Veteran

U.S. Army Parachutist Who Served Five Tours in Iraq and Afghanistan Dies After Chicago Air Show Accident
The Blaze
Dave Urbanski
Aug. 16, 2015

Hood was a sergeant first class who served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan during his 10 years in the Army, according to his bio. He also received two Bronze Stars and two Meritorious Service Medals and recorded more than 500 freefall jumps since 2010. He hailed from Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sgt. First Class Corey Hood

(Image source: U.S. Army)

CHICAGO (TheBlaze/AP) — A U.S. Army parachutist died Sunday after suffering severe injuries from an accident during a stunt at the Chicago Air and Water Show, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

Corey Hood, 32, was pronounced dead just after 4 p.m. Sunday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, said Mario Johnson, a medical examiner’s investigator.

The Army Golden Knights and Navy Leap Frogs parachute teams were performing what is known as a “bomb burst” Saturday when the collision occurred, a Golden Knights spokeswoman Donna Dixon said Saturday. During the stunt, parachutists fall with red smoke trailing from packs and then separate, creating a colorful visual in the sky.
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Army Skydivers Returning to Fort Bragg After Member's Death
CHICAGO — Aug 17, 2015

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Baby Survived After Pregnant Woman Shot to Death in Murder-Suicide

Pregnant woman shot to death in murder-suicide, unborn baby survives
FOX 8 Cleveland
BY DARCIE LORENO AND LORRIE TAYLOR
JULY 29, 2015

“Chrissy was on her knees, she was yelling and screaming ‘he`s going to kill me, he`s going to kill me,’” Mary said. “I said Chris, don`t, I told him’ don`t kill Chrissy, don`t kill her, don`t kill Chrissy’ and he shot her in the head.”

“He looked at me, put the gun to his head and shot.”

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A pregnant woman was shot to death, but doctors were able to save her unborn child after an apparent murder-suicide Tuesday night.

That’s according to Mary Scruggs, the mother of the suspected shooter, Chris Scruggs, 32. Chris was the victim’s fiance and high school sweetheart, Mary says.

“He loved Chrissy and Chrissy loved him,” Mary said.

Mary says her son struggled with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; there were times when he wasn`t himself. “So you sensed there were moments when he was edgy? Asked Fox8’s Lorrie Taylor, “I knew, um hum, and I can understand that.”
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Iraq Veteran Missing in Ohio

Happy Update: 
Missing Upper Arlington Veteran Returns Home

Police search for missing Upper Arlington veteran 
NBC 4 News Ohio
By Nick Bechtel
Published: July 25, 2015

UPPER ARLINGTON (WCMH) — Police are searching for an endangered missing person Saturday evening.

Upper Arlington officials said Christopher Bock-Bacalao was reported missing on Saturday.

A police sergeant said he made threats against his well-being before he went missing.

Family members told NBC4 he is a rowing coach at Upper Arlington High School.

They also said he was an Army veteran who served one tour in Iraq. read more here

VietnamVeteran Deserves Standing Ovation

McCrabb: Vietnam veteran deserves standing ovation
Journal News
By Rick McCrabb Staff Writer
July 26, 2015

“I’m proud of my service, like the other vets,” he said. “We were all anti-war like the rest of the country. I just wish people weren’t anti-solider. I never was comfortable talking about the war.”

MIDDLETOWN — There was a time — the day before Army Lt. Dan Sack was scheduled to arrive home in Cincinnati after serving during the Vietnam War — when he was spit on while walking through Haight-Ashbury, a neighborhood district near San Francisco and fertile ground for the hippie generation.

Sack and an Army buddy took a taxi from the Oakland Army base and toured the neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon. As they walked down the street, proudly wearing their uniforms, hundreds of hippies exited the neighborhood stores, and started chanting, “Ticket To Kill. Ticket To Kill. Ticket to Kill.”

He still doesn’t understand the meaning behind the words.

Patriotism, he said, hit “rock bottom” in the late 1960s.

Thankfully, before a riot ensued, Sack and his friend were picked up by a military police unit, put in the back seat of a government vehicle and driven to safety.

“I could have died the day before I got home,” he said.

Now, 47 years later, Sack will receive a much different reception that will include a standing ovation, not spitting. Sack, 70, of Middletown, will be one of the five veterans honored on Aug. 2 during a Dayton Dragons baseball game at Fifth/Third Field. He will appear on the field between innings and a 60-second video highlighting his military career and community service will be shown on the scoreboard.

Sack’s life, and for that matter, some of Middletown’s history, could have been rewritten on a February 1968 morning.

Sack and Jan Doxey, 22, of Florida, were sleeping in a hooch when a 122mm rocket exploded in the early dawn, sending Sack under Doxey’s bunk. Sack’s legs were filled with shrapnel, and he was temporarily deaf.

But Doxey was killed.
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Realtor Duped By Veterans Charity

Investigator | Realtor loses house, $200k, feels duped by veteran
WKYC-TV
Tom Meyer and Phil Trexler
June 24, 2015

HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ohio -- As a long-time real estate agent, James Catalano has seen a lot of houses come and go. But it's the one he bought -- and lost to a Vietnam veteran -- that has him feeling duped.

The Highland Road home sits about a quarter-mile away from the city's Police Department. Catalano purchased the property as an investment in 2004 for $100,000 and he said he has sunk thousands of dollars in repairs into the ranch-style house.

In 2007, he rented the property to Curtis Freeman, a self-proclaimed Purple Heart recipient and an advocate for Vietnam veterans such as himself.

According to Catalano, Freeman and his companion, Patricia Hawkins, intended to use to the home to help veterans secure housing. They said the government was expected to provide their charity -- Veterans Helping Veterans -- with funding to help more than a dozen down-on-their-luck vets.

At one point in 2007, the late Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones called Catalano to thank him for helping Freeman. Now, Catalano wonders if that was really Tubbs Jones calling. After all, nothing but false promises followed in the next seven years, he said, as Freeman and Hawkins offered excuse after excuse instead of rent payments.

"I didn't have him evicted because he kept telling me they were getting money from the government," Catalano said. He said the couple also passed him $40,000 in bad checks.
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Just goes to show that just because folks claim to be helping veterans, too many times, they are just helping themselves.

Senators Not Giving Up FIght For Air Force Reservists Agent Orange Battle

VA Nomination On Hold in Senate Over Agent Orange Dispute 
Associated Press
by Hope Yen
Jun 11, 2015

"These veterans have waited too long to receive the health care and disability benefits they deserve," Brown told The Associated Press. "Dr. Shulkin is extremely qualified, but we can't move forward to confirm an undersecretary for health at the VA until this pressing veterans' health issue is addressed."

WASHINGTON — Three Democratic senators are holding up a confirmation vote on President Barack Obama's nominee for Veterans Affairs' top health post, citing the department's delay in extending disability benefits to Air Force reservists possibly exposed to Agent Orange.

Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Oregon's two senators, Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, said Thursday they will block a vote on Dr. David Shulkin's nomination in the full Senate until the Department of Veterans Affairs provides a fuller update on its efforts to help roughly 1,500 to 2,100 reservists who served from 1972 to 1982 at military bases in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

The senators had requested such feedback in a letter to the VA in April, with no adequate response to date, they said.
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Man Order into Drug Treatment After Attacking Veterans at VFW

Mason VFW hall attacker ordered to get drug treatment, mental health check 
Zachariah Purcell pleaded guilty to 2 charges
WCPO News
Staff
May 13, 2015

MASON, Ohio -- A Tennessee man who pleaded guilty to attacking two members at a Mason Veterans of Foreign Wars hall was ordered Wednesday to undergo drug treatment, spend time on house arrest and get a mental health check.

Zachariah Purcell, 26, of Morristown, Tennessee, was arrested Jan. 24, 2015. He pleaded guilty March 24 to one count of aggravated assault and one count of assault.

Police said Purcell broke a pool cue over Larry Kennedy's head and hit a woman in the face.

"You don't get in no fights in a place like that," Kennedy said. But when he saw his friend trying to get Purcell to leave, Kennedy couldn't just sit in the corner.

"I just kind of held him down and next thing I know he said, 'I've had enough. Let me up,'" said Kennedy.

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Veteran Shot to Death Trying to Save Woman

Wife of Marine veteran mourns his death after he was shot to death in Ohio while visiting family
10News Digital Team
Apr 26, 2015

SAN DIEGO - A woman in Oceanside is mourning the death of her Marine veteran husband who was shot and killed in Ohio while he was trying to break up a bar fight.

Lydia McJilton said her husband Josh McJilton saved her life when they met and married five years ago. She said she was lost and he became her best friend. She believes Josh died a hero.

He was visiting family in his hometown of Wauseon, Ohio, and was at a bar when he noticed a fight starting between a man and a woman in a car.
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Afghanistan Veteran Beaten After Trying To Help

UPDATE
Went to work really early because of this story. It just didn't add up and if I stayed to search for answers, I'd have to call in sick.

Army veteran beaten senseless by 2 men wielding brass knuckles after trying to break up fight in Ohio (VIDEO)
BY TOBIAS SALINGER
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 12:53 AM

It still leaves a lot of questions but the video is from News 7.

Vet who served in Afghanistan attacked, seriously injured in Springfield 
Dayton Daily News
By Lauren Clark Staff writer
April 19, 2015

His wife, Rachel Shope, 25, told investigators that a woman who lives at the Jefferson Street home where the beating occurred knows the suspects, but wouldn't give her any information to identify them.

Seth Shope, an Army veteran was assaulted in Springfield after asking a couple to move their argument away from a group of children.

SPRINGFIELD — Two men who attacked a Springfield Army veteran after he tried to break up a domestic dispute haven't been identified.

Seth Shope, 26, of Springfield, said he was attacked early Sunday morning on Jefferson Street. He witnessed two men assaulting a woman and ran to help.

The men then began beating him, police said, and he sustained several injuries, including a brain bleed and multiple fractures to his face and both eye sockets.

Shope was was taken by CareFlight from Springfield Regional Medical Center to Miami Valley Hospital. He remained in the Dayton hospital in serious condition on Monday afternoon, and was later released the same day.

"I got hit in the face with a pair of brass knuckles ... after that I don't remember much," he said Sunday night from his hospital bed. Shope couldn't describe either man and couldn't communicate well with investigators due to his injuries, according to a Springfield Police Division report.
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Desperation Drove Vietnam Veteran to Seek Arrest

Vet who asked to be arrested gets help finding home 
Cincinnati.com
DeMio
March 29, 2015

"Nobody wanted me," McKenney explained simply. "I'd been to the hospitals. Everything. The only thing I had left was to have them arrest me."

Michelle McKenney, of Hebron, helps her father, Eugene McKenney, to a chair in his room at Atria Highland Crossing, Fort Wright. McKenney, 63, a Vietnam War veteran who was homeless and went to the Elsmere Police Department and asked to be arrested for vagrancy so he could get shelter. Several social service agencies and family members have worked to get him help and shelter. (Photo: The Enquirer/Patrick Reddy)

ELSMERE – The rail-thin man wore a cap that stood out to Elsmere Police Sgt. Todd Cummins. This was a Vietnam veteran.

The man had slowly pushed himself with a walker to the door of the Elsmere Police Department on March 12 and quietly demanded to be arrested, but Cummins wasn't about to do that.

The man had done nothing wrong. He just had no place else to turn.

The officer sought help from nearby homeless ministries for Eugene McKenney, starting a turn of events in the veteran's life that would lead to a future potentially more promising than he'd had since before he went to Vietnam in 1970. "I was a door gunner,"

McKenney offered last week, sitting with his daughter, Michelle McKenney of Hebron, and two advocates from Northern Kentucky homeless ministries who've been helping him. McKenney speaks little these days. He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, Parkinson's disease and has had multiple strokes. He sat back Wednesday as his daughter relayed one of his most vivid memories of Vietnam.
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Head of Charity For Military Families Under Investigation Committed Suicide

Just to give you some perspective here, what I do costs me a lot of time and little bit of money. While I do this and more stuff 7 days a week with at least 40 hours a week, I lose money every year. I had to go back to work for a paycheck at the same time I work from home because this is my passion and my vocation.

I used to be jealous of folks who were able to do the the work and still figured out how to find financial support to do it. How can they spend time that kind of time doing the work they promised to do and then raise such huge funds at the same time? Simple because most of the time they hire firms to do it and they get a huge chunk of the money people donate so even less goes to the purpose of the money donated.

The part that makes me want to toss my cookies on a regular basis is when they feel as if they deserve hundreds of thousands of dollars because they are worth it! Bullshit! Either they are in it to take care of the troops and veterans or they are in it for themselves. I've known too many great people that work harder than even I do and they are happy just breaking even. The cause is what matters to them not getting rich.

Can someone please tell me why anyone would actually deserve a six or seven figure income to get veterans to help each other when that is what they do on their own for free all the time?

Are folks really that nuts they just don't see it or are their hearts tugged to do something so that anything sounds good to them?

Rant over,,,,sorry, but when I read this article, it just made me sick to my stomach!

Maine charity founder who committed suicide faced FBI fraud investigation
Portland Press
BY SCOTT DOLAN STAFF WRITER
March 18, 2015

Marcel Badeau of Gorham-based Operation Tribute is suspected of siphoning off large sums donated to buy holiday gifts for children in military families.

Margo and Marc Badeau, seen working at their Gorham business in 2007, are now identified in court records as the targets of an investigation by multiple federal agencies.
Press Herald file photo/Jack Milton

The founder of a Maine charity that provided holiday gifts to the children of military families was under investigation for fraud when he committed suicide last month.

The investigation focused on whether Marcel “Marc” Badeau, chairman of the Gorham-based nonprofit Operation Tribute, siphoned off hundreds of thousands of dollars that he told donors would be spent on gifts for children.

Badeau and his wife, Margherita Badeau, are identified in court records unsealed Wednesday as the targets of an investigation by multiple federal agencies that started in July.

The accusations depicting Marcel Badeau as an ex-con scam artist stand in stark contrast to his public image as a selfless man, tirelessly devoting his time to support the children of military service men and women in New England, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Wednesday’s revelation surprised many people who supported Badeau, including Gov. Paul LePage and first lady Ann LePage, who both issued statements after his death Feb. 27.

In honor of the charitable group’s recognition of the sacrifices made by military families, LePage declared December 2012 Operation Tribute Month. The organization was also named Maine’s Outstanding Non-profit in 2011.

The court filings indicate the Badeaus used donated money for personal needs, including more than $230,000 in cash, $138,000 in mortgage payments, more than $25,000 for personal cars, nearly $24,000 for one of their children’s college tuition, and more than $7,000 at New Hampshire state liquor stores.
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Air Force Ranch Hands May Finally Get Justice For Agent Orange

Air Force Reservists May Get Help for Agent Orange Exposure
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
by Torsten Ove
Mar 03, 2015

About 2,100 crew members, flight nurses and maintenance workers who serviced those "spray birds" here and at bases in Massachusetts and Ohio have long maintained that the C-123s were contaminated, even though the Air Force insisted they had been cleaned.

A UC-123B Provider aircraft sprays the defoliant Agent Orange over South Vietnam in 1962. A new report says the planes remained contaminated for years after the war, while Air Force Reserve units used them for medical, transport and training missions.

Michael Silverman remembers the smell.

"The first time I got on one of those planes I said, 'What stinks?' " he said. "They said this plane was used to spray Agent Orange. Everybody smelled it. It was kind of a sweet smell. It was unmistakable."

That was in 1975 when Mr. Silverman, 69, of Fox Chapel, a former Vietnam B-52 navigator and retired lieutenant colonel in the Air Force Reserves, began flying C-123 Provider military cargo planes assigned to the 911th Airlift Wing at Pittsburgh International Airport.

The air base had 16 of the lumbering behemoths from 1972 to 1982, five of which had been used in Vietnam to spray Agent Orange defoliant as part of what the military called Operation Ranch Hand.
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VA Exposes Patients to Unlicensed Prosthetists Suppliers

Veterans Affairs reviews prosthetics lab after complaints 
Columbus Dispatch
By Nathan Baca and Jodi Andes
WBNS-10TV

Sunday February 22, 2015 After a blood clot forced the amputation of his left leg in 2012, retired Navy Cmdr. Robert Haas was counting on the prosthetics lab at Columbus’ Chalmers P. Wylie VA Ambulatory Center to help him regain his mobility.

Sadly, he says, his trust was misplaced.

Despite multiple attempts, the prosthetist assigned to care for Haas at the East Side facility proved unable to fit the 30-year veteran with an artificial leg that would enable him to walk — or even stand — without excruciating pain.

Haas’ months-long ordeal — coupled with similar accounts from more than a dozen other central Ohio amputees — triggered a review by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general. The findings have yet to be released.

It also brought to light a VA hiring practice that potentially exposes patients to unlicensed prosthetists who would be barred from working in civilian health care — at least in Ohio, which imposed minimum training requirements more than a decade ago. 

Among those alarmed by the situation is U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers, R-Upper Arlington, a colonel in the Ohio Army National Guard.

“It is troubling to me to know that federal law doesn’t protect our veterans at the same level that the civilian population is protected,” Stivers said.

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Double amputee Bradley Walker goes through physical therapy to get used to a computerized prosthetic leg CNN VA Troubled History

Dayton VA Employee Checked on Decomposed Veteran?

Dayton hospital employee subject of neglect investigation in vet's death 
Employee not yet facing charges
WLWT News
Karin Johnson
Jan 29, 2015

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio —A man who was supposed to be caring for a Middletown Army veteran is under investigation for negligence.

Police are not naming the worker because charges have not yet been filed, but they say he worked for the Dayton Veterans Affairs Hospital. Watch this story The health care worker was supposed to be caring for 62-year-old Calvin Coleman, who lived on Carolina Street.

Coleman was found dead inside his home March 28, 2014. Police say the VA employee reported checking on Coleman the day before. The coroner says that's not possible.

"Due to the amount of decomposition to Calvin's body, they knew this could not have happened. 

He died three or four days before his body was discovered," Lt. Scott Reeve said.
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