Salem-News.com News Feed for articles tagged with veterans www.salem-news.com 2010 Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley wrote to President Barack Obama to express his strong support of the announcement of an accelerated transition in Afghanistan. The letter came on the heels of comments by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that the United States will complete its transition from major combat operations in Afghanistan to a “training, advice and assist role” by mid-to-late 2013. http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/merkley-afghanistan.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february072012/merkley-afghanistan.php Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:42:00 PST Vietnam veterans who never had boots-on-ground Vietnam, who are sick from presumptive exposure to agent orange dioxin poisoning are tied up in paperwork. The burden of proof is placed solely upon the veteran. Burden of proof is mainly directed to those service members who never had boots-on-ground. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/agent-orane-jb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/agent-orane-jb.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:53:00 PST President Obama called for a new Veterans Job Corps initiative to help returning veterans find civilian employment. He says the Administration’s new veteran employment initiatives will help put veterans back to work. http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/obama-veterans.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february022012/obama-veterans.php Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:32:00 PST Yesterday, Amira Hass reported in Haaretz the Israeli military are now pumping “nausea-inducing chemicals,” into cars at a Bethlehem checkpoint, as a new search method. Hass describes the IDF first pulling over cars, then: ...once parked, the passengers are asked to roll up all windows, apart from that of the driver – and exit the vehicle. Two tubes are then connected to the vehicle... http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/checkpoint-chemicals.php http://salem-news.com/articles/february012012/checkpoint-chemicals.php Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:51:00 PST The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today welcomed the withdrawal of an anti-Islam speaker, retired Lieutenant General William G. "Jerry" Boykin, from an upcoming prayer breakfast at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. CAIR recently joined with VoteVets.org, a coalition of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, in asking the academy to retract an invitation because of Boykin's Islamophobic views... http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/islamophobe-speaker.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january312012/islamophobe-speaker.php Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:42:00 PST The research questionnaire response so far has been good, but we still need more veterans who served in Korea to participate. Veterans-For-Change is distributing a questionnaire to veterans pertaining to service in Korea to help us gather statistical information in our ongoing efforts to correct the wrongs and to assist in declassifying many missions in Korea so that veterans such as you will be able to gain the benefits and services needed from the VA System. http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/ao-korea-cp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january302012/ao-korea-cp.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:24:00 PST Oregon Paralyzed Veterans of America in Salem has been selected as a finalist for Aprons in Action. This is the Home Depot Foundation’s unique Facebook voting program, and now has the opportunity to win a $25,000 gift card from The Home Depot. http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/paralyzed-vets.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january232012/paralyzed-vets.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:06:00 PST Military service personnel of all branches of service, be it Army, Navy, Marine Corp, Air Force or Coast Guard. They serve with pride and honor and are sworn to protect our Country’s boarders, our Constitution and Bill of Rights. They serve in peace time and war time, all with one common goal, our Country’s Freedom. http://salem-news.com/articles/january142012/veteran-priority-jb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january142012/veteran-priority-jb.php Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:55:00 PST The media keeps blasting the obvious paranoia about marijuana by a small but well-funded, noisy portion of the populace. Why there isn't a loud turmoil about the truly deadly alcohol and tobacco and even prescription drugs, which kill 100K PEOPLE A YEAR is beyond my understanding. http://salem-news.com/articles/january122012/marijuana-punishment-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january122012/marijuana-punishment-pl.php Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:02:00 PST The police invasion of a private home leaves a law enforcement officer dead and a U.S. veteran facing the death penalty. It could be the most definitive example of why rogue SWAT tactics and marijuana are a bad mix. http://salem-news.com/articles/january122012/utah-cop-death-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january122012/utah-cop-death-tk.php Thu, 12 Jan 2012 10:31:00 PST The Sunday Oregonian rightly welcomed an Oregon Army National Guard battalion home from Afghanistan. But we need also note that, according to the Pentagon, at least 93 military members who claimed home towns in Oregon have died in the Iraq and AfPak wars. The Oregonian counts 111 because its criteria is that a GI need only have "some tie" to Oregon or SW Washington to be counted. http://salem-news.com/articles/january092012/oregonian-war-dead-mm.php http://salem-news.com/articles/january092012/oregonian-war-dead-mm.php Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:27:00 PST Salem-News.com readers know that we care greatly about the water contamination at the Camp Lejeune Marine base in North Carolina. For decades, Marines drank the water along with their families, and they died of cancer, men developed the highest rate of breast cancer for any single spot known on earth, and so many infants were stillborn that Marine moms were at one point, forced to have their babies cremated. http://salem-news.com/articles/december302011/tce-obama.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december302011/tce-obama.php Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:43:00 PST he council on foreign relations, one of the think tanks seen as a major contributor to the forecasting of the White House foreign policies, has lately published an opinion piece that says “Time to attack Iran”. In the piece the council downplays the fears of many skeptics who envision the perilous consequences of an attack on Iran tantamount to a WWIII scenario, and therefore refuse to subscribe to a preemptive strike of its nuclear facilities. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/iran-attack-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/iran-attack-ae.php Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:35:00 PST The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for ‘sensitive’ words – and tracking people who use them. Simply using a word or phrase from the DHS’s ‘watch’ list could mean that spies from the government read your posts, investigate your account, and attempt to identify you from it, according to an online privacy group. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/us-spies-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/us-spies-ae.php Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:07:00 PST Considered by world nations to be a "Weapon of Mass Destruction" (WMD), a key chemical in Agent Orange, 2, 4-D, may be dropped on US farmland in a few months time. According to an article published on Tuesday, the US govt. may soon approve the petition of the Dow AgroSciences Chemical Company to unleash Agent Orange on agricultural land across the United States. http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/agent-orange-farms.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december292011/agent-orange-farms.php Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:51:00 PST While surfing the morning news, Most people would indifferently glance at this headline “Al-Qaida in Iraq says it was behind Baghdad blasts” but would fail to grasp the real story behind it. But then, how could they not when the story is presented to them with such a deceiving title to begin with. http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/al-qaeda-myth-ae.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december282011/al-qaeda-myth-ae.php Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:33:00 PST EcoKnights recently caught up with the 2010 KLEFF winner for the Best International Film, Vietnamese-born American John Trinh; he shares his first experience at the his winning film “Agent Orange: 30 Years Later” and his future plans in the world of film making. Trinh made a visit to Malaysia for the first time in 2010 when he was invited by the Eco Film Festival Secretariat. http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/john-trinh.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/john-trinh.php Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:09:00 PST Words alone cannot describe the feelings about the Air Force of a Combat Infantryman, Lucky Bastards was the most common word for us slogging through the rain, mud, snow, and cold. We also had envy, jealousy, loathing, and hatred. Some even called them the American Luftwaffe because they bombed or strafed us with machine gun fire- we guys in the mud. http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/flight-infantry-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december272011/flight-infantry-pl.php Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:18:00 PST Activists in one state made an unexpected move against US senators who passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011- which allows for the indefinite military detention of Americans without charge or trial. Montanans have announced the launch of recall campaigns to give senators who voted for the bill the boot. http://salem-news.com/articles/december252011/ndaa-recall.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december252011/ndaa-recall.php Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:57:00 PST While in Ho Chi Minh City on 12th December I decided to deliver by hand a letter to the office of Monsanto. On arrival was told that the director was away on business out of the country, this was the same excuse given a few years earlier. However I explained to the young Vietnamese lady my disappointment and asked that I would like to have a reply. http://salem-news.com/articles/december252011/agent-orange-vn-cp.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december252011/agent-orange-vn-cp.php Sun, 25 Dec 2011 12:41:00 PST In early 1991, something happened at the El Toro Marine air base that was so bad, so shameful, that it will not go away. It's the highly controversial death of Marine Colonel James Sabow. A fighter pilot, a hero of the Vietnam War, a man considered by those who knew him, to be 'general material'. http://salem-news.com/articles/december162011/jim-sabow-video-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december162011/jim-sabow-video-tk.php Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:45:00 PST As someone who could be said to “substantially support al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces,” I am writing to turn myself in under the new NDAA law. Please send a US military brigade, preferably the Marines (semper fi, guys!) to indefinitely detain me. http://salem-news.com/articles/december132011/indefinite-detention-kb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december132011/indefinite-detention-kb.php Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:55:00 PST Making their way through Vietnam’s dense jungles, U.S soldiers heard a cacophony of squawking birds, chattering monkeys, and insects buzzing like high voltage wires. http://salem-news.com/articles/december122011/agent-orange-fw-bw.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december122011/agent-orange-fw-bw.php Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:05:00 PST West Coast Leaf- winter edition, just published the results of a two-year clinical trial about cannabis for PTSD comparing about 40 victims receiving cannabis with about 40 who did not. This work was done at Bat-Yam in Israel and reported at the Cannabinoid Conference 2011 in Bonn, Germany. The Israeli Army has been using cannabis successfully for its soldiers for since it was officially announced by the IDF (Israeli Defence Forces) but this seems to be the first clinically controlled study. http://salem-news.com/articles/december122011/ptsd-israel-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december122011/ptsd-israel-pl.php Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:10:00 PST A new step forward is achieved for the Blue Water Navy of the Vietnam War. Vietnam Navy veterans who are infected with presumptive exposure of Agent Orange Dioxin soon may realize benefits from Veterans Affairs (VA) compensation for agent orange disability. Those Navy veterans, known as Blue Water sailors, who never had boots-on-ground, hopefully will see day light at the end of the tunnel. http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/blue-water-jb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/blue-water-jb.php Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:58:00 PST The difference between homicide and suicide can sometimes be a close call, requiring extensive pathological review and crime scene reconstruction. However, the violent death of Marine Colonel James E. Sabow at MCAS El Toro on January 22, 1991, was a clear case of homicide. For those with knowledge of the cold case, this isn’t even a close call. http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/sabow-folo-ro.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december112011/sabow-folo-ro.php Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:57:00 PST This sermon is based upon two sources; Time Magazine has a major article on Dec. 5 2011 with the title 'Anxiety or more explicitly, the two faces of Anxiety'. I didn't know that there were two faces and further, I didn't know that there was a comparison like 'anxiety, anxianter and axientiest, which is the same as the comparison between good, better and best', which seems to be the basis of this article. http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/pearl-harbor-ptsd-pl.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/pearl-harbor-ptsd-pl.php Fri, 09 Dec 2011 02:06:00 PST As we reported in a recent article, a Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic rescue of 36 human beings, has been under assault by a British military contractor for alleged "drinking" problems and also for supposedly for having "mental" problems. Of course none of this was on the radar of the contractor BAE Systems, until after former Marine Sergeant Dakota Meyer blew the whistle on the company's attempt to sell high-powered sniper scopes to the Pakistani military. http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/dakota-meyer-le-tk.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december092011/dakota-meyer-le-tk.php Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:41:00 PST Some Vietnam veterans who have had or now has diseases brought on by Presumptive Exposure to Agent Orange Dioxin are not alone. Many children of Vietnam Veterans conceived during and after the War are also infected by Agent Orange Dioxin. This is the second generation. Will there be a third generation? Some members of the Armed Forces are recognized by the Veterans Administration (VA). http://salem-news.com/articles/december072011/agent-orange-jb.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december072011/agent-orange-jb.php Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:10:00 PST Through a coincidence of timing and chance I recently met a retired USAF officer who has never forgotten the aviators’ duty to take care of one’s aircrew. http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/c123-locator-et.php http://salem-news.com/articles/december062011/c123-locator-et.php Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:51:00 PST