SGT William A. Geresy (ret)'s Blog – May 2015 Archive (8)

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It is sad that the Air Force couldn't provide a flyby to honor these two men that were shot down and killed in Laos so many years ago.

So private pilots stepped up and made it happen to honor these heroes and their families.

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This most corrupt administration will spare no expense to honor those that never served and made the…

A recently released IAVA survey upends questionable claims made following a similar evaluation released by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America) survey highlights the impact of the disability compensation wait list. It also highlights growing dissatisfaction with VA health care. The latter claim upends a recent assertion from VA that veterans prefer VA health care versus…

It turns a cold shoulder to our veterans and ignores our crumbling infrastructure. In terms of our veterans, you see yesterday, Republicans sought to advance their appropriations bill under the level set by their new budget, which may or may not come to the floor today. But yesterday, the MilCon — military construction veterans bill — that cuts $1.4 billion below President Obama’s budget … and then it cuts $690 million from veterans’ medical care alone, the equivalent of 70,000 fewer…

WASHINGTON — From 2010 through 2014, the internal watchdog at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs issued more than 1,500 reports on the sprawling federal agency — each intended to investigate, improve or fact-check the VA.

But not a single one focused on the agency's unfinished hospital in Aurora, a $1.73 billion project that has obliterated its initial $328 million estimate by $1.4 billion and led one member of Congress to call…