As commander in chief, President Obama has charged Secretary Eric Shinseki and all of VA's leadership with a new mission: to transform VA into a 21st-century organization.
The Stand Down is part of the VA's goal to end veteran homelessness by 2015.
The VA's benefits package, for example, doesn't cover maternity care and, with few exceptions, doesn't cover spouses or children.
Matt Friedman, the director of VA's National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, says it is too simplistic to see trauma in purely negative terms.
The AmVets service organization is "encouraged" by the VA's response to the situation, and pleased to see they caught the error, said spokesman Ryan Gallucci.
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Led by Bart de Wever, a charismatic bruiser, the N-VA's appeal stems precisely from popular exasperation with the messy, unsatisfying compromises of the older political groups.
With the largest one-year percentage increase in VA's budget in over three decades, President Obama has made it very clear that serving our nation's veterans is a top priority in his administration.
The veterans' health care system has found that 716 patients may have been affected during this time period, Jim Blue, regional director of the VA's Office of Public and Intergovernmental Affairs, told CNN.
"The injuries are war-related injuries, but war is experienced at a great distance from your family and support system, " said Terence Keane, director of the VA's National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Boston.
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Together we passed the largest increase in the VA's budget in more than 30 years and supported essential veterans' health care reforms to provide better access and medical care for those who serve in uniform.
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The VA's National Center for PTSD said experts think that 11 to 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans the number clicks up to 30 percent among Vietnam veterans will experience that disorder.
Upon separating from active duty in the USMC in December 1989 to attend the University of South Carolina as a full-time student, I was introduced to veterans' homelessness through VA's Student Work Study Program where I worked twenty hours a week on behalf of homeless veterans to help them secure food, travel, shelter and life's basic needs.
The scrummage will also be competitive, with Glasgow's Justin Va'a, Mahonri Schwalger of Sale and Toulouse tight-head Census Johnston forming an experienced front-row.
Despite what we know about veterans' suicides, a recent report from the VA inspector general's office found that about a third of veterans considered to be at high risk for suicide don't receive the recommended follow-up care after they've been discharged from VA inpatient mental health care.
Monday's tragic shooting spree that killed over 30 people at Virginia Tech's Blacksburg, Va.
William Boden, chief of medicine at Samuel S. Stratton VA Medical Center in Albany, N.
These nicotine-stained goodies had been on public display until 1990 at PM's Richmond, Va.
As NPR's Andrea Hsu reports, that's something the VA is trying to prepare for.
Back then, as the Union Army rested at Harrison's Landing, Va.
Deep inside MCI's Ashburn, Va. headquarters, its walls are plastered with flow charts aimed at having hundreds of accounting tasks completed in time for its expected emergence from bankruptcy.
An article on the ordination led Wednesday's News.va news page, recalling how Joseph Ratzinger, then 24, was ordained on a "radiant summer day" along with 42 other young men.
Brando Va'aulu scored Bourgoin's second at the start of the second half but Exeter hit back through Mark Foster before Nemani Nadolo's consolation try.
To verify, using VA benefit information, an applicant's eligibility for public assistance.
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the company's office in Reston, Va.
Senator Robert Byrd (DW.Va.) takes the Senate's advice-and-consent authority seriously.
HARPER'S FERRY, W. Va. (AllPolitics, April 22) -- President Bill Clinton paid homage to Earth Day Wednesday, helping volunteers repair a stretch of the Appalachian Trail near here and outlining his environmental objectives for the next year.
Last year, two women tried to complete the Marine Corps' 13-week infantry officer's training course at Quantico, Va.
The blocking of the chorus into a tight huddle for "Va pensiero" is Mr. Abbado's sole wholly successful directorial idea.
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