WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC), responsible for overseeing whistleblower disclosures and investigating whistleblower retaliation throughout the federal government, expects to receive over 1,400 “prohibited personnel practices complaints” from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees in 2015 alone.
As Donald Trump supporters left the U.S.S. Iowa on Tuesday, one Hispanic Trump supporter, Jorge Herrera, started a pro-American chant, and other Trump supporters echoed him. Herrera seemed annoyed that some protesters were calling Trump a racist and started to yell back at them, and the crowd of Trump supporters joined in chanting, “U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A!”
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated of the VA, “we’re going to create a whole new system. We’re going to take the system apart,” “and if they’re not doing the job” vets would be reimbursed for outside care from private
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is joining Veterans for a Strong America to “Make America’s Military Great Again” and deliver remarks on foreign policy ahead of the second GOP primary debate next week in California.
Four decorated veterans, convicted of allegedly shooting into a crowd of Iraqi civilians indiscriminately while working as private security contractors hired by the federal government, recently filed a motion to persuade their trial judge to promptly rule on their new trial request, arguing that the Obama administration used perjured testimony to secure their guilty verdicts.
Wednesday morning, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump challenged left-wing cable news network CNN to donate the profits from next week’s GOP presidential debate to veterans groups. Trump publicly released the letter (addressed to CNN chief Jeff Zucker) via his Twitter
The newly-organized anti-Iran nuclear deal group, Veterans Against The Deal, held a 300+ person rally last week outside the Aventura, Florida, congressional office of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) in hopes to pressure her to vote against President Obama’s controversial and highly-unpopular Iran nuclear deal.
More than 300,000 veterans may have died before their applications for medical care filed in the Department of Veterans Affairs enrollment system were ever reviewed, according to a recent government report.
The Department of Veterans Affairs office Inspector General has released a report revealing that about 307,000 sick veterans have died while waiting for care on the VA’s eligibility waiting list. In fact, the report finds that many have been dead for more than four years.
A veteran who previously spoke to Breitbart News about being stonewalled by the Department of Defense on his Freedom of Information Act requests has now filed a lawsuit to get inform
Combat veterans have challenged Donald Trump to join them in their march in Trump’s hometown of New York on August 22nd. The attire for the march – only underwear. The marches began in July and are designed to bring awareness to the 22 veterans who kill themselves every day.
A new group called Veterans Against the Deal has produced its first viral video criticizing President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, featuring medically-retired Staff Sgt. Robert Bartlett.
Over 260 veterans marched in their underwear “silkies” through Houston in the summer heat. The veterans marched for comradery and to raise awareness to the high rate of suicide and PTSD among service veterans and active duty military.
In the Palin Update radio program released Monday, host Kevin Scholla interviews 2016 Presidential candidate and American success story Donald Trump, who offers his admiration of Governor Palin, his take on the “amazingly dishonest” political media, taking on “weak, ineffective” politicians in both major political parties, the pathetic treatment of veterans, “nuclear climate change,” his run for the White House, and how he plans to make America great again.
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump delivered a speech at a rally with supporters in South Carolina on Tuesday, removing himself from the politicians as a friend of the private sector and U.S. economy.
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump – who recently made media headlines with a spat between him and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) – is announcing a move to show he is committed to the military and veterans.
(AFP) Japan’s Mitsubishi Materials made a landmark apology to US prisoners of war forced to work in its mines during World War II, seven decades after the conflict.
The populace has taken a shine to Trump because his statements on illegal immigration speak for them and their real life experience. The elite’s candidates are mortified that their glass menagerie is being shattered.
Donald Trump said, “He’s (John McCain) done nothing to help the vets, and I will tell you they are living in hell.”
Some of the harshest criticisms came, unsurprisingly, from the leading Republicans who have served in the military, former Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
Perry’s sharp words come after Trump attacked Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), saying that McCain was not a war hero and was only regarded as such because he had been captured and held as a prisoner of war. Trump, who has been trading insults with McCain for the past few days, continued his critical remarks about the Senator. When moderator Frank Luntz commented that McCain was a war hero, Trump, according to a report by Politico, responded, “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
It shows that more than 238,000 veterans out of roughly 847,000 have died after applying for health care through the VA – but never receiving it. The Washington Times reported that VA spokeswoman Walinda West stated that there isn’t a way of removing the names of dead applicants off the list.
Anti-police activists set out to protest racism in a New York City park Wednesday by burning the American flag. Instead, they “got a huge surprise from a group of veterans and bikers who sent the flag-burners scattering — and getting an exit escort from the same police they demonstrate against,” according to BizPac Review.
The Islamic State’s conquests in Iraq and Syria– from the largest metropolitan areas to the most unassuming villages of both nations– have raised alarm around the world. And as the Kurdish forces on the ground lament a lack of resources necessary to finish the job, their call has summoned a broad coalition of Western military veterans using the internet to fund trips to the front lines of the war on ISIS.
Sunnyside Memory Gardens cemetery in Charles City, Iowa is removing military markers by veterans’ headstones in the cemetery. When one family asked why, they were told it was because the markers are “too hard to mow around.”
