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Movie released on Facebook portrays veteran’s struggle with PTSD

by Matt Yurus & Noor Wazwaz | Jul 18, 2011 | Business & Tech, Science + Technology

WASHINGTON — Roy Matthews can’t cope with life after combat; he smokes, drinks and wanders the streets alone at night. His wife and daughter feel disconnected from him. Matthews, back from deployment in Iraq, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder....

DOD, first Cyber Security Strategy

by Tatiana Kouskoulas | Jul 18, 2011 | National Security

Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III is announcing the first Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace and formally declaring cyberspace a new warfare domain.

Music site for service members is flying high

by Matt Yurus & Noor Wazwaz | Jul 18, 2011 | Business & Tech, Topics

When Elvis Presley enlisted in the army in 1958, the King’s musical career went on hold. If only GI Jams existed then. GIJams.com is a social music network for military musicians. Husband and wife songwriting team Denny Randell and Biddy Schippers launched the site in...

Coast Guard must amp up oversight, says transportation safety board

by Molly Born | Jul 13, 2011 | Business & Tech

WASHINGTON – A Coast Guard patrol boat that collided with a passenger vessel in San Diego Harbor in 2002, killing an 8-year-old boy, was going dangerously fast and the oversight that could have prevented the accident was inadequate, the National Transportation Safety...

Energy companies have jobs for veterans

by Hannah G. Vickers | Jul 12, 2011 | Business & Tech, National Security, Topics

WASHINGTON — Veterans will see more energy job openings in the coming years thanks to the new Troops to Energy Jobs initiative. The public-private partnership, officially launched on Monday, is an effort to develop an accelerated process for bringing returning...
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