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The VA OIG reported in May 2014 that 17 veteran deaths had occurred while waiting for VHA treatment in the Phoenix VA system, and on June 5, 2014, the Acting Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Sloan Gibson, reported that the VA had identified 18 additional deaths. The 18 deaths were among the group of 1700 identified as "at risk of being lost or ...
Information on listed military executions between 1942 and 1961 has been primarily derived from the following sources. Research on these executions continues. A handwritten list, Executed Death Cases Before 1951 Archived 2008-08-08 at the Wayback Machine, discovered at The Pentagon in December 2003. The list is only partially legible and must ...
The following is a list of wars caught by number of U.S. battle deaths suffered by military forces; deaths from disease and other non-battle causes are not included. Although the Confederate States of America did not consider itself part of the United States, and its forces were not part of the U.S. Army, its battle deaths are included with the ...
Military personnel killed in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (6 C, 5 P) Military personnel killed in the American Civil War (2 C) Military personnel killed in the American Revolutionary War (3 C, 5 P)
He was told to send an email request. As Debbie remembers it, he received a VA letter two weeks later saying they’d get back to him in eight or 10 weeks. (The VA was unable to confirm this sequence of events.) With his military service behind him, Joseph started to pursue a career with the police or fire department or in emergency medicine.
This is a list of Supreme Court of the United States cases in the areas of military justice, national security, and other aspects of war. This list is a list solely of United States Supreme Court decisions about applying law related to war.
The entire military is “a moral construct,” said retired VA psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay. In his ground-breaking 1994 study of combat trauma among Vietnam veterans, Achilles in Vietnam, he writes: “The moral power of an army is so great that it can motivate men to get up out of a trench and step into enemy machine-gun fire.”
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization. “But things ...