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Vietnam Dustoff and Dinh Nit

No question that the Dustoff crew saved the boy’s life. "Dustoff" was the Army’s radio call sign for medical evacuation choppers.

(CHESTER, Pa.) - Captain Maureen (Robbie) Robinson, Army Nurse Corps, was on her second tour in Vietnam in 1970 when she first saw Dinh Nit. According to the medical report, Dinh Nit was around three years old, weighted only 18 pounds, suffered from severe malnutrition, parasite infections, and protein deficiency.

PTSD Sissies and the Most Decorated World War Two Veteran: Audie Murphy

To see if I was on the right track, I Googled PTSD SISSIES on my computer and there it was, including several miserable articles stating in effect that PTSD just like the holocaust did not/does not occur.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have had many email responses to my articles on PTSD and disgusting medical mis-management by the Army and the VA. Some emails say PTSD Vets are just whiners and wimps, it’s only in their heads and trash like that.

Well to start with the PTSD demons ARE in our heads and they are stuck there. Medical articles state that PTSD symptoms reappear even 50 years later. I can attest as they are still with me after 65 years.

PTSD=Depression: A Mis-Diagnosis?
Perpetual Anguish: Probable Cause

When the soldier or Marine is first committed to battle, apprehension is paramount concurrent with blood freezing fear and anxiety. Any Combat Veteran who does not have these feeling has probably not really been there.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - PTSD has been kicked around since about 1970 for what previously had been called SHELL SHOCK which it isn’t, and BATTLE FATIGUE which it also isn’t.

As a former WWII Combat Infantryman, Scout, Pointman and Forward Observer I would like to present my opinion based on been there, done that, seen that and now taking care of PTSD Veteran Victims.

Rate of American Casualties in Iraq & Afghanistan Accelerates

Seven of the 14 killed were from states at or below the Mason-Dixon line. One is from New Mexico, one is from Pennsylvania, one is from Alaska, one is from Hawaii, one is from Nebraska and one is from New York.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The number of casualties reported out of Afghanistan and Iraq is steadily increasing. Last month was the deadliest in Iraq alone since last September.

As we complete the first week of June 2009, we report 13 servicemembers killed in the war theaters. That averages to more than two per day. Two Marines who were killed died in what the military calls non-hostile incidents and one of the 14 listed in this report is a U.S. Army soldier who also died under non-hostile circumstances.

President Speaks at Normandy`s 65th Anniversary Ceremony for D-Day

"May God bless you, and may God bless the memory of all those who rest here" - President Barack Obama

(NORMANDY, France) - Lyndon Johnson once said that there are certain moments when "...history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom."

Oregon Man Battles to Remove Historic Mojave Desert Cross Honoring War Dead

It began when an Oregon who said he was "offended" by this historic cross honoring WWI war dead.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Religious groups and veteran's organizations are applauding arguments from the federal government in favor of a historic cross in the California Desert, built by war veterans to honor their fallen.

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty explains that in a brief filed in the Supreme Court in Salazar v. Buono, the United States government defended the constitutionality of the 75-year old Mojave Desert Cross, which memorializes World War I veterans.

Army Chicken Spit ~ Army Suicides: Who`s Running that Show?

The suicide statistics of the 101st at Fort Campbell are more disgusting than frightening, with 115 in 2007, 133 in 2008 and 64 at the time of this stand down. Ft Campbell has the highest suicide rate with the Army or Marines, why?

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I have written before about Army and Veteran suicides which is a national disgrace. When I heard about Fort Campbell, the home of the 101st Screaming Eagle Paratroopers, I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

I decided I’d better push this up on my computer and there it was. BRIGADIER GENERAL STEPHEN TOWNSEND WAS BERATING HIS TROOPS WITH “ITS GOT TO STOP NOW” AND “SCREAMING EAGLES DON’T QUIT”, WHICH WAS THE MAIN PART OF HIS SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM.

War Casualties Mounting in Iraq & Afghanistan

Eight more Americans and one Egyptian employee of the U.S. government pay the ultimate priced in the war theaters overseas.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan are showing no signs of slowing down, as we complete the costliest month for U.S. troops since last September.

The Department of Defense has in recent days announced the the deaths of soldiers, airmen and a sailor who were supporting Coalition operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nooses in Iraq

"It is too easy for a black soldier to come up missing or dead." - Black soldier under military detention in Iraq

(BAGHDAD ) - The Jena 6 outrage, which led Mychal Bell back to jail and saw five other black boys, peeled away the thin veneer of a color blind society and revealed a festering cancer of racism, oozing with repressed hatred in the United States.

Galvanizing the black community, black leaders of all stripes called for a blackout day boycott, a march on Washington DC, and congressional actions to label such acts as hanging nooses hate crimes.

Army Investigates Misconduct Allegations

The unit in hot water is a military police detachment with the Virginia Army National Guard.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Department of the Army announced today that the Army's Criminal Investigation Command and Multi-National Force – Iraq are investigating allegations of serious misconduct involving members of the 266th Military Police Company.

The misconduct allegedly took place during the unit's pre-deployment mobilization training at Fort Dix, N.J., in fall 2008.