Baton Rouge Lost 3 In The Line of Duty

Baton Rouge shooting: 3 officers dead; shooter was Missouri man, sources say
CNN
By Steve Visser
July 17, 2016

(CNN)The shooter who killed three law enforcement officers and wounded three others in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on Sunday was a Missouri man who launched a deadly rampage on his 29th birthday, police sources said.

Gavin Long, who was born on July 17, 1987, was the man who gunned down officers before he was killed in a gunbattle with other officers responding to the shootings.

Two Baton Rouge police officers -- ages 41 and 49 -- died, said Police Chief Carl Dabadie. The gunman also killed a 45-year-old sheriff's deputy and critically wounded a 41-year-old deputy who is "fighting for his life," said East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux.

Another wounded deputy and police officer have non-life-threatening wounds, law officers said.
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Listen to Our Veterans Research Found Most Veterans Prefer VA

The next time you hear a politician talk about privatizing the VA remember that it is not what veterans want. They want the VA fixed!

Local VA Leaders Discuss 'Listen to Our Veterans' Data with NBC 7 
NBC 7 News San Diego 
By Wendy Fry 
July 14, 2016 

NBC 7 launched the project on Memorial Day to get feedback about veteran services in San Diego.

Overall, 20 percent of respondents said that programs and services were "outstanding", 26 percent said "good", 25 percent selected "fair", and 30 percent said "poor."

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FOX News Commentator Contrived CIA Career

Fox News commentator who feds say faked a CIA career sentenced to 33 months in prison
The Washington Post
Rachel Weiner
July 15, 2016

Over the years, Simmons’s claims were convincing enough to get him a regular spot as an unpaid commentator on Fox News; a post on a 2013 civilian panel investigating the attacks in Benghazi, Libya; and two jobs with defense contractors working in Afghanistan.

Wayne Simmons was a professional football player, a drug trafficker, a nightclub doorman, a Fox News guest analyst and an intelligence adviser in Afghanistan.

What Simmons, 62, was not, according to all available evidence, was a CIA agent. In federal court in Virginia on Friday, just before he was sentenced to 33 months in prison, he apologized for lying about his security clearance, his criminal history and his finances.

“There is not a day that goes by that I am not haunted by these mistakes,” Simmons said. “I stand before you a shameful and broken man.”
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Sheriff Deputies Train as Chaplains

Chaplains’ care also goes to deputies
Course for ‘a ministry of presence’ is the first of its kind in Bexar County
San Antonio Express News
By Elaine Ayala
July 16, 2016

For the first time in Bexar County, 20 volunteer chaplains have received training to care and counsel sheriff’s deputies in what’s described as “a ministry of presence.”

Bexar County Sheriff's Office volunteer chaplain Bette Huereca, right, speaks with Sheriff Deputy Michelle Grabowski.

The Ecumenical Center created the Chaplains for Justice Training Program, an intensive 14-week course accredited by the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy. It’s considered a rarity in law enforcement, and the training is a first here.

Faith leaders and ministers long have worked in the county’s jail system, focused on the spiritual needs of inmates. Less attention has gone to the emotional well-being of law enforcement officers, though there is a growing recognition of its importance, most recently after the killings of five Dallas officers by a sniper during a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest.

The Sheriff’s Office began recruiting volunteer chaplains in 2013, spurred by the suicide of a detention officer that year. Its 14 chaplains received the training,and several others who graduated with them could help bolster their numbers, officials said. The county has a separate set of chaplains who minister to inmates.
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Archdiocese Abandoned Army Chaplain Because of PTSD?

Repenning did right by church, but still got ousted
Poughkeepsie Journal
Dennis Maloney
July 16, 2016

I believe they have adopted an anti-military/veteran bias. It is the only plausible rationale for why they want to punish Father Robert. He served as an Army chaplain, probably against their wishes. He must be punished! Cardinals Spellman, Cooke and O’Connor must be rolling over in their graves! Dennis Maloney

The Poughkeepsie Journal recently reported that the Archdiocese of New York was removing Father Robert Repenning, a pastor at Holy Trinity Church in Poughkeepsie, because of concern about his post-traumatic stress disorder. The facts do not bear this out.

Father Robert is a combat veteran Army Chaplain having served two deployments in Tikrit, Iraq. Captain Repenning is the most decorated chaplain in the archdiocese. His service to the country gave him what many combat veterans acquire, a mild case of PTSD.

Father never hid his PTSD. He sought treatment from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs upon leaving active service years ago. He has followed the treatment protocol religiously. In fact, he has exceeded his protocol by adopting a service dog.

When archdiocese officials informed Father Robert of their decision, they told him that he must go to Saint John Vianney Hospital in Philadelphia, surrender his guardianship to them and be incommunicado. However, if he had a better plan, they might accept it.

The concerned parishioners of Holy Trinity presented such a program, based on the best practices for treating PTSD. Staying at Holy Trinity was part of the plan. It was immediately rejected. He must go!

When we presented the facts that Saint John Vianney does not treat PTSD, that the archdiocesan plan was detrimental to his treatment, that his successes at Holy Trinity (nearly doubling the number of parishioners, doubling school enrollment, increased revenue, building a school playground, updating the entire physical plant, publishing five books) showed that his PTSD did not negatively impact his effectiveness, it didn’t matter! He must go.
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Army Chaplain--Priest With PTSD Tossed by Church

Florida Cemetery Manager Accused of Selling Veterans Grave Markers

Cemetery manager accused of selling veterans' grave markers
Manager arrested after 3-month I-TEAM investigation into funeral home, cemetery
News 4 Jax
By Lynnsey Gardner - Investigative reporter
July 15, 2016

ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. - The manager of First Coast Funeral Home and its sister company, Beaches Memorial Park, sold 44 pounds of scrap metal last month, including two grave markers belonging to veterans, to Beaches Recycling Center, investigators said.

Nader "John" Rayan was arrested Thursday on 16 charges, most felonies resulting from taking money for services that were never provided.

According to the state attorney's office, Rayan is charged with 11 counts of grand theft, one count of improper storage of a body, one count of fraud, one count of dealing with stolen property, one petty theft and one count of false verification of ownership to a recycler.

The News4Jax I-TEAM, which has been investigating the funeral home and cemetery since May, spoke Friday to two employees at the Beaches Recycling Center.

Michelle Perry and Dorothy Norton said Rayan walked in, acting strangely, and was selling two markers for veterans, plus several 2015 marker plates and a vase.
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Five Ohio Correctional Officers Committed Suicide in One Year

5 suicides by SOCF staff in 1 year
Portsmouth Daily Times
By Frank Lewis
July 15, 2016

“If there had been this many inmates who had committed suicide in a year’s time at one institution, they would have spent countless dollars – hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars – doing investigations to try to find out what the problems were. I only wish the DRC cared as much about the officers and line staff as they do the inmates in these situations.” Randall Hiles

It is, at once, extremely sad and compelling.

On July 1, the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (S.O.C.F.) lost another officer to suicide. If you are counting, that makes five Officers who have committed suicide in a one year period. Three of the officers were currently working at S.O.C.F., one had just recently retired and one former officer, who committed suicide four weeks ago, was on probation and was recently removed when he ended his life, according to Randall Hiles, president of Local 7330 of the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association (OCSEA).

“The one officer that just killed himself received a two-day working suspension for absenteeism but he had every minute covered,” Hiles said. “I thought for sure it would be dropped. I’m no saying that’s the main reason he killed himself. I’m saying I know that he was really stressed out over that disciplinary issue. (DRC Director) Gary Mohr and (Managing Director of Operations) Ed Voorhies at the central office, I hope they look at this. I thought they would after the first suicide and take measures to stop this but nothing has been done.”
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The Un-remembered Story of Veteran Suicides

We Did Not Think And It Was Not This Bad
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
July 16, 2016

All the talk about raising awareness is a bunch of bullshit.  Plain and simple.  

That is the biggest problem of all.  Folks are doing a lot of talking using whatever is simple to them and we have seen the deadly results.

When the Department of Veterans Affairs reported that an average of 22 veterans were committing suicide everyday lazy reporters jumped on the headline without reading the report and it seemed as if none of it was happening before. Now the number is put at 20. Does that mean they change their "easy to remember number" or do they actually think about how they did not make a difference at all?

Wrong on all counts, the number was pushed and suddenly folks were running around the country claiming they were going to do something about it.  They did. When you think about "numbers" they can get them wrong because for the number they find, there are many more they do not find.  When they use percentages, then they are basing their findings on the ones they do find.

They managed to make it all worse and the truth is not just in the numbers but in the percentages.

This is from the Department of Veterans Affairs research on veterans committing suicide.

According to the US Census of 2000 there were 26.4 million veterans in the US.  In 2013 it was down to 19.6 million veterans.

So how did we end up with the same numbers on suicides but almost 7 million less veterans and over a decade of "awareness" and prevention?

Sixty five percent of the veterans are over the age of 50.  That has not changed but you wouldn't know that because most of the folks running around avoid even mentioning them. They are not even aware of the simple fact the majority of veterans in this country have struggled longer, suffered longer and waited longer for the help they fought for.

"Records from 48 states show the annual suicide rate among veterans is about 30 for every 100,000 of the population, compared to a civilian rate of about 14 per 100,000." reported by News 21 August 24, 2013

They did not get training in prevention the way the Iraq and Afghanistan veterans were presented with programs to help them recover from combat.  

That is one more thing no one is talking about. It does not work.

The number of OEF and OIF veterans committing suicide are lower than older veterans but when researchers compare the them to civilians in their age group, yet again, the percentages prove the training is more bullshit.

"The suicide rate among young male veterans continues to soar: ex-servicemen 24 and younger are now three times more likely than civilian males to take their lives, according to a federal study" reported by NBC News January 10, 2014


The Department of Defense keeps saying that non-deployed service members are committing suicide but never once mention the fact they were trained in prevention by them.  Ok, then if it did not even work on members who never set foot in a combat zone, how did they expect it to work for those who went? Top that off with those with multiple deployments they knew would be at greater risk way back in 2006?

And after a decade of training friends of Darrell Almond had to bury him at the age of 33.  He survived Iraq and Afghanistan but could not survived being back home. "Some of Almond's friends did not realize the magnitude of his battle with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  "I know he struggled with it, but we didn't think it was this bad." said Joseph Hadley who served with him.

"We are either determined to repeat history or pretend just enough to let us go to sleep at night feeling as if we did something today.

The question is, how does it feel to read another article about another veteran repeating the history we left for them?" Kathie Costos Wounded Times

Veterans Struggle After Darrell Almond's Suicide

Final goodbye to local Marine
KRIS TV 6 News
By Jane Caffrey
July 15, 2016

Although friends say Almond did suffer from PTSD before he died, his fellow Marines say his story was so much more than that.

Darrell Almond's funeral was attended by family, friends, and his fellow Marines.

Darrell Almond was laid to rest today at the Coastal Bend State Veterans Cemetery. The Marine took his own life just over a week ago as he sat in a truck parked at an Agua Dulce area baseball field.

Almond's family, friends, and fellow Marines bid their final goodbyes at a funeral in Alice and interment at the Veterans Cemetery Friday. They are stunned by the death of one of their own.

"For all these guys to see this...it just stung," said Joshua Hadley, who served with Almond.

"We would never expect to be burying one of our brothers this soon, you know outside of combat," former Marine Brad Pack added.

The 33-year-old had completed two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He worked as a Combat Engineer to clear mine fields of explosives, one of the most dangerous jobs in the Marine Corps.

"We always had a good time. Always hard worker, never backed down from a challenge," Hadley said. "Darrell Almond was a genuinely good person. Almost used to think of him as kind of a man-child type person. He'd do anything for you, the most selfless person you could ever meet."

Some of Almond's friends did not realize the magnitude of his battle with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

"I know he struggled with it, but we didn't think it was this bad," Hadley said.
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Sgt. Randall Hansen Died Because of War and PTSD

Group wants to add vet who committed suicide after battle with PTSD to Duval County memorial wall
Action News Jax
by: Kevin Clark
Jul 15, 2016

In this case, Sgt. Hansen would not be allowed on the wall because he did not die while serving the country, a city spokesperson told Action News Jax.

A local group wants to add another name to the Duval County Veterans Memorial Wall while raising awareness about veteran suicide.

Action News Jax spoke to members of Jacksonville Irreverent Veterans, a support group for the servicemen and women suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

They say one local Marine should be on the wall because he lost the battle “after the battle.”

Sgt. Randall Hansen graduated from Fletcher High School and joined the United States Marine Corps.

He attended the University of North Florida between two combat tours in Iraq.

Sgt. Hansen suffered from PTSD and took his own life after returning home.
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Combat Docs Need to Be Ready For Next War

The plan to keep military combat docs ready for America's next war
Medill News Service
Ruojing Liu
July 16, 2016

According to the report, trauma deaths of about 1,000 service members in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts between 2001 and 2011 could have been prevented with more proficient trauma care. About 20 percent of civilian deaths from serious injuries at home in 2014 could have been prevented as well.

Soldiers from the 5-20 Infantry Division carry a comrade onto a stretcher after he was wounded in a mortar blast on the outskirts of Baghdad in 2007.

(Photo: David Furst/AFP/Getty Images)

About 1,000 mortally wounded troops a year could have been saved in a decade of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan if more military doctors had been more skilled in trauma care, a top medical organization reports, A proposal under consideration on Capitol Hill is directed at ensuring that military doctors gain and maintain proficiency in those skills by working with civilian trauma centers.

The proposal calls for grants for civilian trauma centers to hire military doctors and staff.

The idea would be to use military medical professionals in the civilian trauma system so both sides could share information about treating patients in life-or-death situations.
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Sammy "Sergeant" Vasquez Battles To Win

Gorman: 'Sergeant' Sammy hopes title is next
TribLive
Kevin Gorman
July 15, 2016

Vasquez entered the ring via a Humvee and wearing camouflage trunks, so adopting The Sergeant nickname made sense for him. He's an outspoken advocate for veterans, and he doesn't shy from speaking about his battles with post-traumatic stress disorder.

Sammy Vasquez (left) throws a punch at Aron Martinez during their

welterweight bout Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, in Los Angeles.

PHOTO BY AP

In a tribute to his two tours of duty in Iraq with the U.S. Army, boxer Sammy Vasquez Jr. changed his nickname from The Who Can Mexican to The Sergeant.

The 30-year-old welterweight from Monessen believes he is on the cusp of a title that carries even more clout: How does “world champion” sound?

Vasquez embraces the idea of becoming Western Pennsylvania's next world boxing champ.

His immediate predecessors are two of his heroes. Former heavyweight champion Michael Moorer is from Vasquez's hometown of Monessen, and former lightweight champ Paul Spadafora represented Pittsburgh out of McKees Rocks.

“When I think of Michael Moorer or Paul Spadafora or even Billy Conn, I still am like, to me, he's a great,” Vasquez, 30, said. “To put myself in that category, it's weird for me. I'm still a huge fan. To put my name up there with those guys is an awesome feeling.”
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Veteran Committed Suicide After VA Turned Him Away

Another case where a veteran asked for more help than he was getting but was turned away. What did he do? He posted on Facebook about it and then took his own life.

Until things get fixed once and for all veterans, here's a suggestion. If you turn to the VA crisis line and do not get help right away, or try to get into the VA and they do not take you, CALL 911 LIKE EVERY PHONE CALLER HEARS WHEN THEY CALL THE VA. Do not give up if you know you need help. Ask for the fire department and tell them what you need. They will usually be escorted by police officers just in case, but most of the time, you will simply be taken for help. DO NOT GIVE UP!!! Live to fight the VA another day.

Family asks answers from Iowa City VA after military veteran commits suicide
WKOW
By Greg Neumann
Jul 14, 2016

"It wasn't like a new person. He (the psychiatrist) knows Brandon's history, he knew he was flagged for suicide with the VA," said Nichols. "At least two occasions in the past three years he's been flagged for suicide."

WISCONSIN DELLS (WKOW) - The family of a 33 year-old military veteran believes his suicide could have been prevented if a VA doctor in Iowa City had granted his plea for admittance to a psychiatric ward.

His loved ones are now seeking answers, WKOW reports.

"I came home from war, only to be lost in the fog of another war, a war within myself," read Brad Ketchum Monday afternoon, as he sat among grieving family members in his mother's home.

But those are not Brad's words. They were written by his older brother Brandon Ketchum, a veteran of the Marines and Army National Guard who found himself at a crisis point last Thursday.

"He had relapsed and was abusing drugs and he just was in a bad place," said Kristine Nichols, Brandon's girlfriend of three years who lived with him in Davenport, Iowa.

Nichols said she watched Brandon struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and addictions - first to painkillers, and then heroin.

"He had asked me if I thought he should get inpatient (treatment) and I told him, you know, if he felt that he needed to," Nichols said of her conversation with Ketchum last Thursday.

But Brandon expressed outrage about being turned away on Facebook less than 24 hours later.

"I requested that I get admitted to 9W (psych ward) and get things straightened out. I truly felt my safety and health were in jeopardy, as I discussed with the doc. Not only did I get a 'NO', but three reasons of no based on me being not f***** up enough," wrote Ketchum. "At this point I say, 'why even try anymore?' They gave up on me, so why shouldn't I give up on myself? Right now, that is the only viable option given my circumstances and frame of mind."

Brandon Ketchum took his own life just hours later.
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Navy Recruiters Will Be Armed

Navy will put armed sailors at recruiting centers after July 16 attack
Times Free Press
Shelly Bradbury
July 15th, 2016

The U.S. Navy will put armed sailors at recruiting centers across the nation in the wake of the July 16 attack in Chattanooga, a Navy spokesman confirmed Friday.

An FBI investigator investigates the scene of a shooting outside a military recruiting center on Friday, July 17, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez of Hixson, Tenn., attacked two military facilities on Thursday, in a shooting rampage that killed four Marines.

(AP Photo/John Bazemore)

The personnel will be armed with both lethal and non-lethal weapons and will be stationed at recruiting centers across the nation in the coming months, Capt. Jack Hanzlik said.

The move is one of several changes the Navy has made to security and policy after the attack a year ago, when a 24-year-old gunman opened fire on a recruiting center on Lee Highway — injuring one Marine — before driving to the U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center on Amnicola Highway, where the shooter killed four Marines and mortally wounded a Navy sailor.

"The arming of personnel at these facilities provides both a deterrent value and a defensive capability against potential attacks," Capt. Ray Benedict wrote in a Navy statement.
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Solider From Florida Found Dead at Paintball Court

Fort Hood releases name of Soldier found dead at Belton Lake paintball court
KCEN
Brandon Gray
July 14, 2016

SPC Alexander Michael Johnson, 21 (Photo: Custom)

FORT HOOD, Texas -- Fort Hood officials have released the name of a Solider that was found dead Tuesday near the Belton Lake Recreation Area paintball course, according to a press release.

SPC Alexander Michael Johnson, 21, whose home of record is Mulberry, Florida, entered active-duty military service in July 2013 as an AH-64 attack helicopter repairer. He was assigned to 615th Aviation Support Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, since March 2014.
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Police Standoff With PTSD Veteran Ends with Beanbags

Police use beanbags guns to end armed standoff in Holyoke
Associated Press
July 15, 2016

The chief says he thinks the 26-year-old man served in the Army and may have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He says there may be other weapons in the home.

HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) - A six-hour standoff between police and an armed and distraught veteran barricaded inside his Holyoke home has ended with no major injuries.

Police Chief James Neiswanger (NICE’-wong-er) says the standoff ended at about 1 a.m. Friday when police used beanbag rounds to disable the man when he stepped outside with a rifle on his chest.
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Orange is The New Black Needed New Villains,,,They Picked Veterans?

'Orange is the New Black' criticized for portrayal of veterans
Associated Press
July 15, 2016

VFW national commander John A. Biedrzycki Jr. said the show's writers and producers chose to offend all veterans because they needed new villains.

Leading veterans' groups are disturbed by the way veterans hired as prison guards are portrayed in the new season of the Netflix series, "Orange is the New Black."

The veterans' groups say they take issue with the way the new guards disparage the inmates throughout season four of the drama that takes place in a women's prison and the way they talk about their combat experiences.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars called the show "offensive." Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America said it will further stigmatize veterans, and Disabled American Veterans said the show is out of the touch with the reality of the veteran experience.

Netflix didn't respond to multiple messages left Thursday and Friday seeking comment.

In one scene in the finale, a guard tells another guard about innocent people he killed in Afghanistan.

After spending so much time chasing bad guys, he said, "you get so mad, tired and bored" that you "just grab a farm kid" and make him juggle live grenades until one blows up.
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Vietnam Veteran Died Days After Being Honored

Vietnam vet, honored Saturday, dies Thursday
Great Falls Tribune
Tribune Staff
July 14, 2016

Ronald Doney sits with his tile on Saturday to be installed at the Montana Veterans Memorial. Doney died at home Thursday in Great Falls.

(Photo: Tribune Photo/Anissa Keith)

Ronald “Cree” Doney, 71, a Vietnam War veteran whose health was compromised by exposure to the chemical Agent Orange, died at home Thursday in Great Falls after a long illness.

A rosary and wake will be held at 7 p.m. Friday, and funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, both at Sacred Heart Church in Fort Belknap. See his obituary in Friday's Montana section of the Tribune.
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Green Beret Vietnam Veteran May Be Next MOH Recipient

Green Beret medic could be next Vietnam War MOH recipient
Stars and Stripes
By Travis J. Tritten
Published: July 14, 2016

Gary Michael Rose receives the Distinguished Service Cross from Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, for heroism during Operation Tailwind.

COURTESY OF TED WICOREK

“God knows how many times he risked his life to make sure as many guys as possible came out alive,” Retired Maj. John Plaster.

WASHINGTON — The story of Green Beret Gary Michael Rose’s heroism is an epic of classified warfare and a stinging media scandal, but it might soon end with a Medal of Honor.

In 1970, Rose was the lone medic for a company of Special Forces soldiers and indigenous Vietnamese fighters during a risky, four-day assault deep into Laos. The badly injured Rose helped bring all the soldiers back alive and received the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation’s second highest military honor, during a ceremony at the time in Vietnam.

“He is not a gung-ho person, he is very thoughtful, but he was a hell of a medic and I trusted him with my life,” said Keith Plancich, 66, who was a Special Forces squad leader on the mission.

But Rose and the other men were wrongly accused of taking part in war crimes in 1998 after the mission, called Operation Tailwind, was declassified and unearthed for the first time by CNN and its partner Time magazine.
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VA Opened Door to Disability Fraud?

Trying to Serve More Veterans Faster, VA Opens Door to Disability Fraud
The Wall Street Journal
By DANIEL HUANG
July 14, 2016

"There are some veterans “practicing outright fraud. On balance, there are a lot more deserving veterans who are still getting turned away.” Jim Strickland

Brian Jacobson, an Iraq war veteran in Susanville, Calif., said he was told to ‘act like you have a screw loose’ to get more VA disability benefits. PHOTO: MAX WHITTAKER FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Iraq war veteran Brian Jacobson took a call last summer from the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center to schedule a coming medical exam for his disability benefits.

When he asked the clinic staffer what he might expect at the appointment, the 28-year-old security officer said she told him he would get more benefits if he acted “like you have a screw loose in your head, wear clothes with holes that haven’t been washed in a while and act like you’ve been homeless.”

Mr. Jacobson, who served three years in the Army, said he was appalled. After spending 15 months on roadside bomb patrol in Iraq’s Diyala province, he separated from the military in 2008 and began receiving disability compensation for conditions including post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Though he was qualified for the benefits, “[the coaching] made me feel dishonest,” he said.
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