Navy uniforms are flammable, and the military knows it
By DIANNA CAHN
The Virginian-Pilot
Published: January 9, 2013
NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy's standard-issue blue camouflage uniforms are highly flammable and will melt onto the skin when burning, a recent Navy test revealed.
A second revelation: This comes as no surprise to the Navy.
"We knew when we designed this uniform that it wasn't flame-resistant," said Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Navy's top spokesman.
"When we were making the uniform, sailors wanted a uniform that was comfortable, that didn't require maintenance and would stand up under a lot of washing, and one of the ways to get that is a nylon-cotton blend," Kirby said. "We realize that nylon does not react well to flame, but again, there was no requirement for a fire-resistant uniform in a working environment."
The Navy released findings in December of an impromptu test that showed that - unlike the Army and Marine Corps working uniforms - its working uniform is not designated flame-resistant and "when subjected to a flame, it will burn robustly until completely consumed."
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Vietnam Vet shafted after cancer remission
Ok, so the government takes years to approve conditions connected to service. Do they turn around after that and award the veterans for all the years of suffering back to their service days? No. They will go back to only when the claim was filed. Now it looks like when it comes to all the years Agent Orange has been eating away at a Vietnam Veteran were not worth taking care of him now that cancer linked to Agent Orange is in remission.
Vietnam Vet With Cancer Might Lose Home Due To Reduced Benefits
CBS News
January 9, 2013
CHICAGO (CBS) – A Marine Corps veteran is in danger of losing his home, because of a serious illness connected to his service in Vietnam more than 40 years ago.
CBS 2’s Jim Williams reports the U.S. Veterans Administration had been helping the Chicago man, but much of that support has stopped, and now he’s in the fight of his life.
Sonny Cooper was once a robust U.S. Marine.
He volunteered for the Marine Corps, and saw combat in Vietnam. In 1967, he was exposed to Agent Orange, a deadly herbicide used by the U.S. to fight the war by destroying swaths of jungle and rural land to deprive enemy soldiers of cover and food.
“We would see them spraying. As a matter of fact, we’d be right under them sometimes,” Cooper said.
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Shooting at Taft California high school
UPDATE from CNN
04:46 PM ET
Police: Teen shot 1 student, missed another in California high school
One student, 16, fired at two students with 12-gauge shotgun, critically wounding one and missing the other at Taft (California) Union High School on Thursday morning, police say
Police: Suspect put gun down after teacher and someone else talked to him; wounded student airlifted to hospital
Below are the latest updates as they come to us. Also, you can read our full story.
04:46 PM ET
Police: Teen shot 1 student, missed another in California high school
One student, 16, fired at two students with 12-gauge shotgun, critically wounding one and missing the other at Taft (California) Union High School on Thursday morning, police say
Police: Suspect put gun down after teacher and someone else talked to him; wounded student airlifted to hospital
Below are the latest updates as they come to us. Also, you can read our full story.
Report: 2 shot at Calif. high school; shooter detained
USA Today
1p.m. EST January 10, 2013
KERO-TV says a shooter has been taken into custody as deputies go room-by-room
At least two people have been shot Thursday at a high school in Taft, CAlif., KERO-TV reports.
The condition of the victims was not immediately clear.
The shooter was taken into custody at Taft High School around 9 am. local time, says KERO, which reports that it got a tip on the shooting from people hiding in closets inside the school.
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Navy SEAL told not to report PTSD "issues"
PTSD-Related Suicide Hits Close to Home
The Washington Post profiles Navy SEAL from San Diego who took his own life
By Tony Shin
Thursday, Jan 10, 2013
The parents of a San Diego Navy Seal who took his own life say the mental trauma their son endured from serving overseas -- coupled with the stigma attached to mental illness -- played a major role in his death.
A Washington Post profile of San Diego Navy SEAL Robert Guzzo Junior shows the young man as vibrant and strong, with a beautiful daughter who looks exactly like him.
However in 2006, shortly before serving a tour in Iraq, Robert's mother Robin Andersen said he was struck hard by the suicide of his best friend and fellow Navy SEAL. By the time he returned from San Diego a year later, something had changed, she told the Post.
"I could just tell immediately he was changed," she said in the interview. "His affect was different, you know. The look on his face was a distance away."
Robin said her son was deeply bothered by the horrors of war.
"I was rubbing his back, saying, 'it's going to be okay,' and he said, 'Mom, it's never going to be okay.'"
Robert's father Bob Guzzo was also a SEAL. He said his son didn't immediately seek treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because he was told by others in the military that it could end his career.
"They told him specifically not to report on any worksheet that you are having these issues because if they do, they'll take your bird. They'll take your trident," Bob told the Post.
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Go here for the full interview from The Fold
PTSD, a Navy SEAL and family left behind
The Washington Post profiles Navy SEAL from San Diego who took his own life
By Tony Shin
Thursday, Jan 10, 2013
The parents of a San Diego Navy Seal who took his own life say the mental trauma their son endured from serving overseas -- coupled with the stigma attached to mental illness -- played a major role in his death.
A Washington Post profile of San Diego Navy SEAL Robert Guzzo Junior shows the young man as vibrant and strong, with a beautiful daughter who looks exactly like him.
However in 2006, shortly before serving a tour in Iraq, Robert's mother Robin Andersen said he was struck hard by the suicide of his best friend and fellow Navy SEAL. By the time he returned from San Diego a year later, something had changed, she told the Post.
"I could just tell immediately he was changed," she said in the interview. "His affect was different, you know. The look on his face was a distance away."
Robin said her son was deeply bothered by the horrors of war.
"I was rubbing his back, saying, 'it's going to be okay,' and he said, 'Mom, it's never going to be okay.'"
Robert's father Bob Guzzo was also a SEAL. He said his son didn't immediately seek treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because he was told by others in the military that it could end his career.
"They told him specifically not to report on any worksheet that you are having these issues because if they do, they'll take your bird. They'll take your trident," Bob told the Post.
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Go here for the full interview from The Fold
PTSD, a Navy SEAL and family left behind
Football player suffered head trauma before suicide
Aside from the link we can connect this to military service head trauma, this shows what Junior Seau's family went through afterwards.
Junior Seau suffered from CTE brain disease, study shows
PUBLISHED Thursday, Jan 10, 2013
Associated Press
Junior Seau, one of the NFL's best and fiercest players for nearly two decades, had a degenerative brain disease when he committed suicide last May, the National Institutes of Health told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Results of an NIH study of Seau's brain revealed abnormalities consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
"The brain was independently evaluated by multiple experts, in a blind fashion," said Dr. Russell Lonser, who oversaw the study. "We had the opportunity to get multiple experts involved in a way they wouldn't be able to directly identify his tissue even if they knew he was one of the individuals studied."
The NIH, based in Bethesda, Md., conducted a study of three unidentified brains, one of which was Seau's. It said the findings on Seau were similar to autopsies of people "with exposure to repetitive head injuries."
"I was not surprised after learning a little about CTE that he had it," Seau's 23-year-old son Tyler said. "He did play so many years at that level. I was more just kind of angry I didn't do something more and have the awareness to help him more, and now it is too late.
"I don't think any of us were aware of the side effects that could be going on with head trauma until he passed away. We didn't know his behavior was from head trauma."
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