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Retired U.S. Army Capt. Ferris Butler is one of the lucky ones. He came home from Iraq. "I don't consider myself a disabled veteran," he says. "I consider myself a veteran." ...
On Veterans Day, Building Homes for Disabled Warriors
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyRetired U.S. Army Capt. Ferris Butler is one of the lucky ones. He came home from Iraq. "I don't consider myself a disabled veteran," he says. "I consider myself a veteran." But he is a veteran who lost both of his legs below the knee after an IED went off under the Humvee he was riding in. It happened in Iraq's Sunni Triangle on Dec. 21, 2006. Butler has no trouble pinpointing that date. But he has another date in mind this week -- Nov. 11, Veterans Day, when he and his wife, Laura Sauriol, get a new home. Understand that nine years of war takes a toll on a nation and its youth. The ...
Wounded Soldiers Stuck in Middle of Aircraft Battle
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This is the third in a series of stories by our special correspondent about military aviation issues linked to the war in Afghanistan. Read also the growing pains of the Afghan air force and the attempts of female pilots to find a place in it. RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Oct. 30) -- More than two dozen injured U.S. troops, including six critical-care patients, have been loaded onto the C-17 transport aircraft destined for Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Then everyone aboard gets the bad news: There's a fuel leak, and the aircraft may not be able to fly today. That means more waiting for the ...
Thousands of Soldiers Unfit for War Duty
By David Wood - Politics DailyMore than 13,000 active-duty Army soldiers -- the equivalent of four combat brigades -- are sidelined as unfit for war because of injury, illness or mental stress. In an unmistakable sign that the Army is struggling with exhaustion after nine years of fighting, combat commanders whose units are headed to Afghanistan increasingly choose to leave behind soldiers who can no longer perform, putting additional strain on those who still can. The growing pool of "non-deployable'' soldiers make up roughly 10 percent of the 116,423 active-duty soldiers currently in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands ...
Wounded GIs in Afghanistan: Casualties More Seriously Injured Than in Iraq
By David Wood - Politics DailyFORWARD OPERATING BASE SALERNO, Afghanistan -- They are the invisible casualties of this war, the 2,194 Americans who have been badly wounded in battle here. More are coming. Stunned, torn and bleeding, they are extracted from dusty battlefields in wild, shouting chaos, and because they are so quickly rushed into the hands of trauma nurses and surgeons, more of them survive than in past wars. ...
Children of War: An Afghan Boy and His Little Sister
By David Wood - Politics DailyBAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- This war's wounded are collected from outposts around Afghanistan by C-130 aeromedical flights. The planes land here with the broken and lacerated bodies of young Americans, lying comatose in casts and bandages among their intravenous tubes and their blood monitors and respirator masks, stacked in racks of litters quietly attended by nurses wearing careworn faces and blue surgical gloves. The wounded are rushed on gurneys into the big American military hospital to have their wounds washed and dressed, and often to undergo more surgery to stabilize them before ...
Obama Administration Drops Controversial Veterans Health Plan
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe White House announced on Wednesday that the Administration is abandoning a planned change to veterans' health care that had angered members of Congress of both parties and representatives of veterans groups. The Obama Administration first acknowledged last week that it was considering a plan to charge wounded veterans' private health insurance for treatment of their service-related injuries. The plan was included in the Administration's budget proposal presented to Congress last month and was expected to generate $540 million in additional funding for the Veterans Administration.The ...
Veterans Groups Call Obama Veterans' Health Plan 'Unconscionable'
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe head of the nation's largest veterans organization left a White House meeting with President Obama visibly angered at the Administration's plan to charge veterans for care of their service-related injuries at VA hospitals. American Legion Commander David K. Rehbein met with the president, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki yesterday to discuss the group's objections to the plan, which the Obama Administration quietly admitted is under consideration last week. Rehbein said that he and the American Legion were, "extremely disappointed and concerned," ...
Administration Considering Plan to Charge Vets for Care
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Obama Administration confirmed that it is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for health care they receive at government-run hospitals with private insurance. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed that that plan is under consideration at a hearing on Capitol Hill yesteray. Although not a formal proposal, the idea was met with bipartisan derision from members of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, who declared it "dead on arrival."The Administration included in its 2010 budget proposal an increase in "third-party collections" at VA health care centers. ...
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