Jeffrey A. Sinclair, U.S. Army General, Arrested On Sex Charges
Huffington Post
09/26/12
FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- An Army brigadier general has been charged with forcible sodomy, multiple counts of adultery and having inappropriate relationships with female subordinates while serving in Afghanistan, two U.S. defense officials said Wednesday.
The defense officials spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to provide details on the case.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Camp Lejeune Major seeks answers after grandson dies
Marine seeks answers in grandson's death
September 25, 2012
JD News.com
LINDELL KAY
DAILY NEWS STAFF
More than a year after his grandson died in the care of a Jacksonville babysitter, a Camp Lejeune Marine officer still seeks answers and resolution.
Maj. Donald Carter’s 2-year-old grandson suffered fatal head injuries while at a babysitter’s house April 12, 2011, and died a couple of weeks later, according to the child’s death certificate, which labels his death as a homicide.
Police and prosecutors said they’ve thoroughly investigated the case and didn’t find enough evidence to make an arrest.
Julius Kahlil Lewis Carter died April 29, 2011, after being “hit by other(s) with a blunt object, dropped and or thrown against hard surface” 17 days earlier, according to his death certificate, which lists the boy’s cause of death as “closed head injury due to non-accidental injury.
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September 25, 2012
JD News.com
LINDELL KAY
DAILY NEWS STAFF
More than a year after his grandson died in the care of a Jacksonville babysitter, a Camp Lejeune Marine officer still seeks answers and resolution.
Maj. Donald Carter’s 2-year-old grandson suffered fatal head injuries while at a babysitter’s house April 12, 2011, and died a couple of weeks later, according to the child’s death certificate, which labels his death as a homicide.
Police and prosecutors said they’ve thoroughly investigated the case and didn’t find enough evidence to make an arrest.
Julius Kahlil Lewis Carter died April 29, 2011, after being “hit by other(s) with a blunt object, dropped and or thrown against hard surface” 17 days earlier, according to his death certificate, which lists the boy’s cause of death as “closed head injury due to non-accidental injury.
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Camp Lejeune Marine charged after fatal car crash
Man denies charges in Belgrade car crash that killed 2, including his sister
By Betty Adams
Morning Sentinel
Staff Writer
AUGUSTA -- A U.S. Marine home on leave pleaded not guilty Tuesday to criminal charges in connection with a car accident in Belgrade that left two passengers dead, including his sister.
Travis Lawler, 23, whose family lives in Oakland, was on leave from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina when the car he was driving went off the road on a curve and slammed into a tree about 11 p.m. June 16 in North Belgrade, according to police.
Police said alcohol and speed caused of the crash, but did not file charges against Lawler until now.
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By Betty Adams
Morning Sentinel
Staff Writer
AUGUSTA -- A U.S. Marine home on leave pleaded not guilty Tuesday to criminal charges in connection with a car accident in Belgrade that left two passengers dead, including his sister.
Travis Lawler, 23, whose family lives in Oakland, was on leave from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina when the car he was driving went off the road on a curve and slammed into a tree about 11 p.m. June 16 in North Belgrade, according to police.
Police said alcohol and speed caused of the crash, but did not file charges against Lawler until now.
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Fort Hood soldier pronounced dead at Darnall
Herald staff writer
Posted on September 26, 2012
by Rose L Thayer
Fort Hood officials released the name of a soldier who was found unresponsive in his Fort Hood residence on Thursday. He was transported to Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center and was pronounced dead that evening.
Spc. Joel Chuca, 24, of Longmont, Colo., entered the military in September 2009 as a motor transport operator. He was assigned to 418th Transportation Company, 180th Transportation Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 13th Sustainment Command, since March.
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Fort Hood shooting leaves on soldier dead and another one charged
Texas soldier allegedly kills pal who had hiccups
September 25, 2012
Spc. Patrick Edward Myers, a soldier based in Fort Hood, was arrested for allegedly killing his pal while trying to rid him of the hiccups. (Killeen Police Department)
(CBS/AP) KILLEEN, Texas - One Central Texas soldier has been charged with killing another in gunfire while allegedly trying to help cure the victim's hiccups.
Killeen police say the Fort Hood soldiers were drinking alcohol and watching football when the incident happened Sunday night.
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September 25, 2012
Spc. Patrick Edward Myers, a soldier based in Fort Hood, was arrested for allegedly killing his pal while trying to rid him of the hiccups. (Killeen Police Department)
(CBS/AP) KILLEEN, Texas - One Central Texas soldier has been charged with killing another in gunfire while allegedly trying to help cure the victim's hiccups.
Killeen police say the Fort Hood soldiers were drinking alcohol and watching football when the incident happened Sunday night.
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MOH Dakota Meyer, tests of valor
Dakota Meyer could have just returned home and then left it at that. Sure, he made appearances like most of the rare Medal of Honor heroes, but he decided to give even more.
He's talking about Combat PTSD and in the process, saving lives. Dakota is one of hundreds of veterans attempting suicide. There is no doubt in my mind that is what is happening quietly across the nation.
If you are trying to get someone you know to get help for Combat PTSD, make sure they read this so they know, this has nothing to do with "lacking courage" or being mentally weak. It has more to do with going where few others have been, doing what they had to do, seeing what they had to see and then hitting that brick wall where memories take over.
Now that you've heard his story, think about this. If a Medal of Honor Hero didn't get what he needed out of treatment, what chance does any other veteran have?
Dakota's story is like the 75 percent of those who attempted suicide were seen somewhere in the outpatient health care system within 30 days before their suicide attempt. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for what he did in combat but should get a medal for what he has done after it.
He's talking about Combat PTSD and in the process, saving lives. Dakota is one of hundreds of veterans attempting suicide. There is no doubt in my mind that is what is happening quietly across the nation.
If you are trying to get someone you know to get help for Combat PTSD, make sure they read this so they know, this has nothing to do with "lacking courage" or being mentally weak. It has more to do with going where few others have been, doing what they had to do, seeing what they had to see and then hitting that brick wall where memories take over.
Bearing both the Medal of Honor and trauma
September 23, 2012
(CBS News) Starting over after a traumatic event is never an easy task, not even for a young man this nation honors as a hero. Our Cover Story is reported by National Security Correspondent David Martin:
For Dakota Meyer, the Medal of Honor is a full-time job, which keeps him on the road 20 or more days each month.
... As when he appeared at a job fair for veterans in Quantico, Va.:
"When they told me that I would be receiving the Medal of Honor I told them that I didn't want it, because I don't feel like a hero," Meyer said. "But then the president said something to me: 'It's bigger than you.' And I never really thought about that until afterward, and it is bigger than me."
Behind that jaunty air lies some of the toughest lessons any young man ever had to learn.
First, there was the battle in a remote Afghan valley for which he received the medal - a bloody, five-hour firefight which left four Marines and one soldier dead.
Meyer called it the worst day of his life - "A day that has forever changed my life."
Meyer and his fellow Marines drove into a gauntlet of fire from up to 100 insurgents. He went back again and again, trying to reach buddies trapped in the ambush. But he didn't get there in time. And he has been haunted by that ever since. read more here
Meyer got some post-traumatic stress counseling, and moved back in with his father, Mike, on the farm where he grew up in the Kentucky hills.
"You come home to this peaceful place in the country," said Martin. "About as far removed from war as you can get. What was it like coming home?"
"A shocker," Meyer said. "It's hard living here. It's easy fighting, you know, 'cause it's, it's simple. Like, war simplifies life in my mind."
Meyer was home, but his father could see the war was still with his son.
Meyer's father said Dakota asked for new locks on the doors. "Make sure the house was locked up every night. . . . He'd always want to have one or two guns in every vehicle."
"So he always wanted a weapon close," he said, noting that for three months Meyer slept with a weapon - a pistol on his chest.
"Did you try to talk to anybody about it?" Martin asked.
"What's there to talk about?" Dakota replied.
"Get it out of your own mind and into somebody else's?"
"You know, why bother somebody else with it?" Meyer said. "It's just part of it."
Believing he had become a burden to his family, Dakota turned to the bottle. One night driving home he stopped his truck and pulled out a gun.
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Now that you've heard his story, think about this. If a Medal of Honor Hero didn't get what he needed out of treatment, what chance does any other veteran have?
Dakota's story is like the 75 percent of those who attempted suicide were seen somewhere in the outpatient health care system within 30 days before their suicide attempt. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for what he did in combat but should get a medal for what he has done after it.
Louisville police training to focus on veterans after Lt. Colonel abused
After confrontation with lieutenant-colonel, Louisville police training to focus on veterans
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 23, 2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Fort Knox officials are meeting with Louisville police about training officers to deal with veterans who have traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress disorder after a January confrontation where Lt. Col. Donald Settle claims police used excessive force against him.
The Courier-Journal reports (http://cjky.it/VsSo5K) Settle had gone to Mid-City Mall to buy a gift card. His clothes were dusty because he had been remodeling, and an officer mistook him for a homeless panhandler. It didn't help that Settle, who had recently moved to a home outside Elizabethtown, couldn't remember his address when asked by Officer Daniel English.
"He approached him and it went downhill from there," said Louisville Metro Police Lt. Col. Vince Robison. Robison said the officer reported that Settle seemed confused and upset that he was being stopped.
Lt. Colonel with brain injury tasered by police
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 23, 2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Fort Knox officials are meeting with Louisville police about training officers to deal with veterans who have traumatic brain injuries or post-traumatic stress disorder after a January confrontation where Lt. Col. Donald Settle claims police used excessive force against him.
The Courier-Journal reports (http://cjky.it/VsSo5K) Settle had gone to Mid-City Mall to buy a gift card. His clothes were dusty because he had been remodeling, and an officer mistook him for a homeless panhandler. It didn't help that Settle, who had recently moved to a home outside Elizabethtown, couldn't remember his address when asked by Officer Daniel English.
"He approached him and it went downhill from there," said Louisville Metro Police Lt. Col. Vince Robison. Robison said the officer reported that Settle seemed confused and upset that he was being stopped.
Fort Knox officials came to Louisville in July to meet with Robison and Police Chief Steve Conrad. They discussed concerns about how Settle was treated and general concerns about how police treat soldiers returning with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries.
The goal was to "ensure similar incidents are not handled in the same fashion," Robison said in an email.
The training will be mandatory beginning next year.
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Lt. Colonel with brain injury tasered by police
VA workers chip in to feed families
VA workers chip in to feed families
For the Commercial-News
Commercial-News
September 23, 2012
DANVILLE — Many food banks are experiencing severe shortages of non-perishable food items, which result in the needy going hungry. Whatever can be contributed will go a long way toward helping replenish food banks so they can assist families and individuals who need the most help.
This is why the Feds Feed Families Food Drive was sponsored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — to provide federal employees with the opportunity to collect goods for delivery to local food banks to feed the needy. The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Human Resources Management, was proud to assist OPM with this food drive and established a goal of collecting at least 230,000 pounds nationally of non-perishable goods during the 2012 drive.
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For the Commercial-News
Commercial-News
September 23, 2012
DANVILLE — Many food banks are experiencing severe shortages of non-perishable food items, which result in the needy going hungry. Whatever can be contributed will go a long way toward helping replenish food banks so they can assist families and individuals who need the most help.
This is why the Feds Feed Families Food Drive was sponsored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — to provide federal employees with the opportunity to collect goods for delivery to local food banks to feed the needy. The Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Human Resources Management, was proud to assist OPM with this food drive and established a goal of collecting at least 230,000 pounds nationally of non-perishable goods during the 2012 drive.
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Veteran stuck in VA backlog lost home and almost life
The Last Battle: Steven Chadduck lost his home and nearly committed suicide while waiting for help for PTSD
By John Ramsey
Staff writer
Sep 24, 2012
Steven Chadduck lost a home and came close to suicide while waiting 18 months for the VA to decide that his PTSD and knee injuries make him unemployable.
His claim languished with thousands of others in the Veterans Benefits Administration's claims office in Winston-Salem.
There, an inspector general report released in August said the floor was in danger of buckling under the weight of about 37,000 claims folders stacked 2 feet high and two rows deep atop already-filled cabinets.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has promised to eliminate its entire backlog - more than 820,000 claims nationwide - by 2015. The VA has hired more than 3,000 claims processors and bought a $300 million computer system.
But the wait times in North Carolina - and in the other areas across the country that process the most claims - are getting worse.
VA workers process disability claims for most North Carolina veterans in Winston-Salem.
Its backlog is among the largest in the Southeast, according to a national analysis by the Center for Investigative Reporting in California.
About 33,700 North Carolina veterans are stuck in limbo, waiting an average of 329 days for the VA to process their claims. Approximately 3,170 live in Fayetteville. Winston-Salem also has more than 12,500 pending claims from new programs that allow soldiers to file for benefits before they leave the Army.
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By John Ramsey
Staff writer
Sep 24, 2012
Steven Chadduck lost a home and came close to suicide while waiting 18 months for the VA to decide that his PTSD and knee injuries make him unemployable.
His claim languished with thousands of others in the Veterans Benefits Administration's claims office in Winston-Salem.
There, an inspector general report released in August said the floor was in danger of buckling under the weight of about 37,000 claims folders stacked 2 feet high and two rows deep atop already-filled cabinets.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has promised to eliminate its entire backlog - more than 820,000 claims nationwide - by 2015. The VA has hired more than 3,000 claims processors and bought a $300 million computer system.
But the wait times in North Carolina - and in the other areas across the country that process the most claims - are getting worse.
VA workers process disability claims for most North Carolina veterans in Winston-Salem.
Its backlog is among the largest in the Southeast, according to a national analysis by the Center for Investigative Reporting in California.
About 33,700 North Carolina veterans are stuck in limbo, waiting an average of 329 days for the VA to process their claims. Approximately 3,170 live in Fayetteville. Winston-Salem also has more than 12,500 pending claims from new programs that allow soldiers to file for benefits before they leave the Army.
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More money wasted on PTSD studies that have already been done
Michigan State professor to lead study on military families, stress and resiliency
Detroit Free Press
September 25, 2012
By Melanie Scott Dorsey
Staff Writer
A Michigan State University professor will use military families to study resiliency and how stress can make us stronger.
"I have worked with military families for six years and I have always been incredibly impressed by these families' ability to get through stressful times," said Adrian Blow, an associate professor and a family and marriage therapist.
Blow is leading two projects after receiving $1.5 million in grants that will allow him to study National Guard veterans and their families as well as train mental health counselors to work with military families.
Blow and Lisa Gorman, a program director at the Michigan Public Health Institute, will use a $1.3-million grant from the Department of Defense to study resiliency in military families.
The study, which begins in October, will span over three years with Blow and Gorman contacting more than 600 members of the National Guard who spent a year in Afghanistan. The study also will include spouses and parents of the National Guard members.
The study will explore National Guard families' lives prior to deployment, during deployment and after deployment, Blow said.
There have been many studies done on the military, Blow said, but most of them deal with risk factors and not family life.
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This is more wasted money on studies that have been done, redone and done again for the last 40 years! If they still don't have a clue, all the money in the world will not fill them in.
It would be wonderful for funds to be used where they work and have proven histories of working instead of millions more going for research that produces one failed program after another. They still to this day push resiliency training even though that has been used over and over as the suicide and attempted suicide rates went up.
Does Congress have to pretend they give a damn so they keep funding these useless studies?
Have they ever heard of the Internet? It now contains more information than most researchers will ever use ON STUDIES THAT WERE ALREADY PAID FOR AND PROVEN TO BE EITHER SUCCESSES OR FAILURES!
How about they actually talk to families that have been there and done that over and over again and then they may actually learn what does work?
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