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  • Summer blood donation campaign kicks off July 1

    The Armed Services Blood Program is launching its summer donation drive next week."Our summer campaign this year is a service-specific campaign," said Julie Oliveri, ASBP's communications and marketing director. "In this way, we hope to ensure our military family is 'armed' with the blood products

  • Program aids mental health care for transitioning troops

    Service members and veterans transitioning from the military to Veterans Affairs for treatment or between military treatment facilities now have access to greater consistency in psychological health and traumatic brain injury care, a Defense Department official said here June 11.A voluntary,

  • Electronic submission available for faster disability claims

    A new online application from Veterans Affairs allows for processing disability compensation claims faster, and officials are urging veterans and their representatives to use this capability to receive speedier decisions and reduce the backlog of claims. The Web portal, eBenefits, is now integrated

  • DOD establishes tissue bank to study brain injuries

    The Defense Department has established the world's first brain tissue repository to help researchers understand the underlying mechanisms of traumatic brain injury in service members, Pentagon officials announced recently.The announcement follows a symposium that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel

  • Troops, families can visit museums free for summer

    During the busy season of military transfers, adjusting to new communities and registering children for school, more than 2,000 museums across the nation will open their doors, free of charge, to service members and their families as a break from the summer challenges, a Defense Department official

  • Airman defies injuries at Warrior Games

    Behind her bright brown eyes, easy smile and contagious laugh there is pain -- both physical and mental.Retired Air Force Staff Sgt. Zuleika Cruz-Pereira joined the Army after Sept. 11, 2001, because she wanted to do something to help people."I wanted to go out there and do something big," she said.

  • Games proves not 'end of the world' for wounded Airman

    "It felt like the end of the world," said retired Senior Airman Scott Palomino, describing what it was like after being wounded when a mortar round exploded in his tent at Balad Air Base, Iraq, in 2004.Among his injuries was the loss of a leg, which was a serious blow to the El Paso, Texas, native

  • Warrior Games 2013: Airman with TBI faces challenge at Games

    By looking at him, you would never be able to tell he is a battle-tested, combat-injured Airman. He is a testament to invisible wounds and just how their effects can become visible in everyday life. Capt. Mitchell Kieffer is a mathematician at heart and an operations research analyst at Joint Base

  • Wounded warriors recover through massage therapy

    Her hands heal and relax ill, injured and wounded veterans competing at the 2013 Warrior Games here.Jeanette Falu-Bishop, the founder and executive director of Structure for Wounded Warriors, is not new to helping out. She has been working for nearly a decade helping veterans with massage therapy.

  • EOD tech competes in Warrior Games

    Combat can take its toll on the body both physically and mentally, but for an Airman here his warrior spirit is not limited by such things. For many wounded warriors, the tolls of combat could have diminished their abilities and reaction times, but the internal fire of the warrior spirit remains

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