Beaver 1003 FM by Nick Fox
Posted on January 25, 2017
ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – The skeletal remains found Monday in Robertson County have been positively identified as Pfc. Shadow McClaine.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Remains Identified of Missing Fort Campbell Soldier
TBI: Remains identified as missing Fort Campbell soldier
Beaver 1003 FM by Nick Fox
Posted on January 25, 2017
ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – The skeletal remains found Monday in Robertson County have been positively identified as Pfc. Shadow McClaine.
The Fort Campbell soldier went missing on Sept. 2, 2016 and was never seen or heard from again.
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Beaver 1003 FM by Nick Fox
Posted on January 25, 2017
ROBERTSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – The skeletal remains found Monday in Robertson County have been positively identified as Pfc. Shadow McClaine.
Michigan Missing Veteran Alert
UPDATE
He has been found safe.
Police: Vet missing has not been seen since Monday
FOX 2 News
January 26, 2016
The Wixom Police Department needs your help locating a missing person.
The family of Arthur Tillman Jr. has not seen or heard from him since the evening of Monday, January 23.
According to debit card records, Arthur’s card was used on Tuesday, January 24 in Waterford and in Troy.
Arthur is a military veteran and may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Tillman Jr. is described as a 24-year-old African American man who is approximately 5’09” and 170 lbs.
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He has been found safe.
Police: Vet missing has not been seen since Monday
FOX 2 News
January 26, 2016
The Wixom Police Department needs your help locating a missing person.
According to debit card records, Arthur’s card was used on Tuesday, January 24 in Waterford and in Troy.
Arthur is a military veteran and may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Tillman Jr. is described as a 24-year-old African American man who is approximately 5’09” and 170 lbs.
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Missing Veteran Alert Texas: Amon Gift, Afghanistan Veteran
Sheriff's Office: U.S. Army vet found dead in Sam Rayburn had been suffering from PTSD
KTRE ABC 9 News
By Gary Bass, Digital Content Producer
Friday, January 27th 2017
SABINE COUNTY, TX (KTRE)
A 23-year-old Army veteran whose body was found in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir Thursday night had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that resulted from being involved in two separate bomb attacks, according to a press release.
Fishermen found Amon Gift’s body in a cove just south of Mill Creek Park on the southeast side of the Sam Rayburn Reservoir at about 2 p.m. Thursday.
“Gift was a U.S. Army veteran who had recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan,” the press release stated.
“Gift suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder which originated when he was involved in two separate bombings while serving overseas. Gift’s family said he has recently been struggling with depression due to his PTSD, and it appeared to be worsening.”
Gift, a Houston resident had been missing since Jan. 20. His family members told authorities that he left Houston in his 2008 Dodge Dakota, the press release stated.
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UPDATE
Body found in Lake Sam Rayburn is that of veteran reported missing, according to JP
KTRE ABC 9 News
By Gary Bass, Digital Content Producer
Friday, January 27th 2017
SABINE COUNTY, TX (KTRE)
A 23-year-old Army veteran whose body was found in the Sam Rayburn Reservoir Thursday night had been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder that resulted from being involved in two separate bomb attacks, according to a press release.
Fishermen found Amon Gift’s body in a cove just south of Mill Creek Park on the southeast side of the Sam Rayburn Reservoir at about 2 p.m. Thursday.
“Gift was a U.S. Army veteran who had recently returned from a tour in Afghanistan,” the press release stated.
“Gift suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder which originated when he was involved in two separate bombings while serving overseas. Gift’s family said he has recently been struggling with depression due to his PTSD, and it appeared to be worsening.”
Gift, a Houston resident had been missing since Jan. 20. His family members told authorities that he left Houston in his 2008 Dodge Dakota, the press release stated.
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UPDATE
Body found in Lake Sam Rayburn is that of veteran reported missing, according to JP
Sabine County Precinct 2 Justice of the Peace Jamie Brasher has identified the remains as that of Amon Gift, 23, who had been reported missing by family members after he reportedly left his home in his 2008 Dodge Dakota.
Even though an official ruling on the cause of Gift’s death has not been made, pending a formal autopsy, it is believed that the man died of a gunshot wound. However, officers are not saying at this point whether the gunshot was self-inflicted or not.
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EQUUSEARCH LOOKING FOR MISSING HOUSTON MAN WHOSE WIFE SAYS HE HAS PTSD
ABC News 13
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Texas EquuSearch volunteers are looking for a Houston man who vanished before the weekend. Amon Gift, 23, was last seen by anyone on Friday in Houston.
His wife Savannah told ABC13 she received a text from him saying he was at Mill Creek Park in Brookeland, Texas. But she wasn't able to find him there, his phone is turned off and no one has heard from Amon since Friday.
She added that Amon, who serves in the military and returned from Afghanistan in May, has been diagnosed with PTSD. Savannah said she filed a missing person's report on Saturday.
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Man Shot in Alabama Possible Suicide By Cop?
Knox man killed in Alabama officer-involved shooting
USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee
Hayes Hickman
Jan. 26, 2017
Micah R. Lambert, 37, was killed when he attempted to charge officers with his SUV, according to Oxford, Ala. Police Chief Bill Partridge.
The chief said Lambert was wanted on a charge of aggravated assault on police officers in connection with an incident earlier this week in Knox County.
USA TODAY NETWORK – Tennessee
Hayes Hickman
Jan. 26, 2017
Partridge added that Oxford police were notified by the Heflin, Ala., Police Department, which initiated the pursuit, that the suspect was armed, suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and had made suicidal threats in the past. He could not confirm whether Lambert was a military veteran.
A Knoxville man who fled the state after an alleged assault on a Knox County sheriff's deputy was fatally shot by police in Alabama following a pursuit Wednesday, authorities said.Micah R. Lambert(Photo: Knox County Detention Facility)
Micah R. Lambert, 37, was killed when he attempted to charge officers with his SUV, according to Oxford, Ala. Police Chief Bill Partridge.
The chief said Lambert was wanted on a charge of aggravated assault on police officers in connection with an incident earlier this week in Knox County.
"Lambert had been reported missing and had left a friend's house with a loaded handgun after making threats to harm himself, according to the report.
"Mr. Lambert had left his dog with his friend and signed over the title to his vehicle before leaving," the report states.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017
"Blind Veteran" Drove Car, Had Job and VA Comp Check?
Officials: Veteran faked blindness for 15 years, took home $400K in disability benefits
WFTV
Jan. 24, 2017
A 60-year-old Florida woman has pleaded guilty to pretending to be blind for more than a decade to receive veterans disability benefits of nearly $400,000, investigators said.
Veronica Dale Hahn, of Bonifay, entered the guilty plea Friday in Panama City federal court.
Hahn is accused of convincing Veterans Health Administration staff and private doctors that her service-related injury caused nearly complete blindness in both eyes from 2001 to 2016, court documents say.
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WFTV
Jan. 24, 2017
A 60-year-old Florida woman has pleaded guilty to pretending to be blind for more than a decade to receive veterans disability benefits of nearly $400,000, investigators said.
Veronica Dale Hahn, of Bonifay, entered the guilty plea Friday in Panama City federal court.
Hahn is accused of convincing Veterans Health Administration staff and private doctors that her service-related injury caused nearly complete blindness in both eyes from 2001 to 2016, court documents say.
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PTSD On Trial: Aaron Wanless in Florida
Troubled vet sentenced to 48 years for shooting at lawmen
Northwest Florida Daily News
By Kelly Humphrey
January 25, 2017
Dayaram attempted to convince the judge to depart from mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines that could send his client, 35-year-old Aaron Wanless, to prison for nearly 50 years. He asked the judge to consider sentencing Wanless to 48 months in prison, followed by probation and in-patient treatment for mental illness.
Schlechter, on the other hand, argued that Wanless should be punished to the full extent of the law as prescribed by Florida's 10-20-Life statute, which at the time Wanless was arrested applied to felonies that involve the use of a firearm. The law was repealed last year and replaced with a statute that gives judges more flexibility in sentencing.
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Northwest Florida Daily News
By Kelly Humphrey
January 25, 2017
Assistant State Attorney Jonathan Schlechter and Public Defender Ricky Dayaram walked into Circuit Court Judge William Stone's courtroom on Wednesday with two very different goals.Wanless was under treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses at the local Department of Veterans Affairs clinic when he fired a gun in the direction of Okaloosa County deputies during a 2015 altercation. In December, he was found guilty of five felonies in connection with the incident.
Dayaram attempted to convince the judge to depart from mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines that could send his client, 35-year-old Aaron Wanless, to prison for nearly 50 years. He asked the judge to consider sentencing Wanless to 48 months in prison, followed by probation and in-patient treatment for mental illness.
Schlechter, on the other hand, argued that Wanless should be punished to the full extent of the law as prescribed by Florida's 10-20-Life statute, which at the time Wanless was arrested applied to felonies that involve the use of a firearm. The law was repealed last year and replaced with a statute that gives judges more flexibility in sentencing.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Canada Veterans Need to Look At US Reports on Mefloquine
In 2008 the VA issued a warning about Mefloquine, and there are other stories on this report going back to 2002.
Senator Dianne Feinstein wanted answers from Donald Rumsfeld in 2003
Senator Dianne Feinstein wanted answers from Donald Rumsfeld in 2003
Veterans, families want answers over Forces' use of MefloquineThese may help their case
Toronto Sun crime reporter Chris Doucette. (Sun files)
By Chris Doucette, Toronto Sun
Monday, January 23, 2017
The call for accountability over the Canadian Forces’ use of a controversial anti-malaria drug is growing louder and veterans and family members hope Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hear their cries for help.
A former medic who served in Somalia, the wife of a soldier disgraced in the Somalia Affair, the mother of a soldier who killed himself in Rwanda and a doctor with expertise in the neuropsychiatric effects of Mefloquine toxicity recently submitted written statements to the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs outlining the drugs’ devastation.
Marj Matchee writes her husband, Clayton, suffered paranoia and hallucinations prior to his 1993 arrest for the deadly beating of a Somali teen.
“You see things when you sleep. You see it in the daytime too,” she recalls him saying.
Many veterans who were forced to take the drug before it was licensed still suffer from side effects that Health Canada and AA Pharma, the Canadian supplier of the drug, quietly added to Mefloquine’s warning label last year.
“We must do more to reach out to these veterans, to acknowledge the harms that Mefloquine has caused them, and commit to funding research to study and ultimately try to reverse these effects,” Matchee writes.
Dr. Remington Nevin, of Johns Hopkins University, says Mefloquine toxicity can cause brain damage that mimics PTSD, so sufferers may receive the wrong treatment and symptoms such as suicidal thoughts persist.
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Lariam Psychiatric and Suicidal Side Effects Research shows the anti-malaria drug mefloquine hydrochloride—formerly sold under the brand name Lariam—might cause psychiatric abnormalities, suicidal ideations and behaviors, and potentially permanent nerve damage. Because of these psychiatric side effects, the drug’s manufacturer, Hoffmann-La Roche, pulled it from the market in 2008. The U.S. Army continued to administer it to soldiers, however, until 2011, when the army ceased prescribing Lariam even for soldiers deployed in malaria-prone regions such as Afghanistan. In July 2013, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) notified the public that mefloquine products’ drug labels would be updated with a black box warning—the agency’s most serious kind—concerning the aforementioned side effects.
Mall Hero Identified
One more reason why we need to check the links to see what is true or not.
This story appears to be true,
This story appears to be true,
Man killed in jewelry store heist described as a family man and protectorBut the report that linked to it, added in a bit of their own news.
FOX 29 News
by FOX San Antonio
January 23rd 2017
SAN ANTONIO - The Good Samaritan killed in a jewelry store heist on Sunday afternoon has been identified by the Bexar County Medical Examiner as Jonathan Murphy, 42.
Murphy never served in the military but came from a military family and respected the service and sacrifice. Amber is not sure if Jon knew the robbers had guns. But, regardless he would have done what he did. His family asks for the communities continued support as they try to heal from a senseless act.
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SAN ANTONIO (KABB/WOAI) - The good Samaritan who was killed trying to stop a jewelry store robbery in San Antonio, Texas on Sunday afternoon has been identified as Jonathan Murphy.
A GoFundMe page, which has not yet been confirmed to be associated with Murphy's family, described him as a retired Marine and a manager at a car dealership.
The fund organizer said Murphy was a "first rate protector" who was with his wife at the jewelry store to get their wedding bands cleaned.
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Monday, January 23, 2017
Special Ops Veteran Brings Back "Ghost" From War Zone
Special ops veteran risks life to recover pets from bases in war zone
FoxNews.com
By Cristina Corbin
Published January 23, 2017
The recovery operation was costly and dangerous, requiring the special operations soldier to enter hostile territory in full body armor and make his way to a U.S. military base.
The purpose of his mission, however, did not include bringing back an American soldier. It was to pick up a 45-pound white Canaan dog named "Ghost" and reunite him with his human companion back home.
It's the kind of mission this soldier, who declined to give his name for security reasons, says he conducts in war zones around the world.
"It's the best feeling to reunite these pets with their soldiers," he told Fox News. "I was wounded in Iraq, myself, and I owe my life to my dog. There is a bond there that could never be broken."
For American soldiers serving abroad, pets are not considered military property – and are often left to die in the war zones where they bonded with their handlers. But this special operations soldier, with the help of a New York animal rescue group, has made it his mission to fly into countries in the Middle East and bring the pets back to the U.S. to live with their companions and their families.
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FoxNews.com
By Cristina Corbin
Published January 23, 2017
The purpose of his mission, however, did not include bringing back an American soldier. It was to pick up a 45-pound white Canaan dog named "Ghost" and reunite him with his human companion back home.
It's the kind of mission this soldier, who declined to give his name for security reasons, says he conducts in war zones around the world.
"It's the best feeling to reunite these pets with their soldiers," he told Fox News. "I was wounded in Iraq, myself, and I owe my life to my dog. There is a bond there that could never be broken."
For American soldiers serving abroad, pets are not considered military property – and are often left to die in the war zones where they bonded with their handlers. But this special operations soldier, with the help of a New York animal rescue group, has made it his mission to fly into countries in the Middle East and bring the pets back to the U.S. to live with their companions and their families.
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Homeless Veteran's Heart Warmed By Kindness From Cop!
When a St. Paul cop and a homeless veteran met, grace followed
Twin Cities Pioneer Press
By MARA H. GOTTFRIED
PUBLISHED: January 13, 2017
At first, it was just the man’s sign that caught Eric Reetz’s attention.
“Veteran 10 yrs Army,” William Tentis, 64, had written on a piece of cardboard. “God Bless.”
Reetz, who is a sergeant first class in the Minnesota National Guard and a St. Paul police officer, could not just walk by as he headed into the Xcel Energy Center to watch a Minnesota Wild game. They talked briefly and Reetz gave Tentis, who is homeless, a $20 bill.
“I didn’t think that we’d ever cross paths again,” said Reetz, 40.
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Twin Cities Pioneer Press
By MARA H. GOTTFRIED
PUBLISHED: January 13, 2017
At first, it was just the man’s sign that caught Eric Reetz’s attention.
“Veteran 10 yrs Army,” William Tentis, 64, had written on a piece of cardboard. “God Bless.”
Reetz talks with Tentis before giving him a challenge coin with his badge number on it. He gives them only to people who’ve been a positive force in his life. (Pioneer Press: Jean Pieri)
Reetz, who is a sergeant first class in the Minnesota National Guard and a St. Paul police officer, could not just walk by as he headed into the Xcel Energy Center to watch a Minnesota Wild game. They talked briefly and Reetz gave Tentis, who is homeless, a $20 bill.
“I didn’t think that we’d ever cross paths again,” said Reetz, 40.
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