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Many of you have been asking what you can do at the State level.  Here’s a terrific option. Kudos to Eric Koleda. He has also negotiated an agreement with a KY hospital Wound Center to start treating TBIs.  All relevant state initiatives can be viewed at:  https://treatnow.org/contact/state-campaigns/My Fellow Veterans and

Burn Pits Protocol   “It is difficult to say how many Vietnam veterans have been affected by Agent Orange. However, any veteran who served in Vietnam between January 9, 1962, and May 7, 1975, is presumed by the VA to have been exposed to Agent Orange.” Other locations of likely exposure to Agent Orange include the Korean Demilitarized Zone a...

  “To care for them who shall have borne the battle, and for their partners, and their orphans.” US and allied service members are set to be out of Afghanistan by early to mid-July, well ahead of President Biden’s Sept. 11 deadline. (NYT report) Over 8,000 American service members are estimated to have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, with hundreds of thousands wounded in visible and invisible ways. Twenty years of war...

Thanks to Equestrian Aid Foundation, HOW, and Hyperbaric Services of the Palm Beaches.Thanks to the work of TreatNOW Coalition partner Hyperbaric Services of the Palm Beaches, partner Help Our Wounded Foundation (HOW), and the Equestrian Aid Foundation, Jenn Miller (foreground) has made a full return to work thanks to HBOT,

VA Announces Listening sessions to guide VA SSG Fox Suicide Prevention Grant Program From:   Thanks to Chaplain Collins and BG Bauerle for the lead. This is the next step in the VA’s efforts to fund Suicide Prevention programs. The Staff Sergeant Parker Gordon Fox Suic...

Some Things You Thought You Knew Over 1.2 million post-9/11 service members are suffering from brain injuries related to their service. According to the CDC, about 150 Americans die from traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related injuries each day, and over 3.5 million citizens every year receive brain injuries from falls, sports, accidents, assaults, and other insults to the brain. Some estimates peg sports-related traumatic brain injuries as high as 3.8 million per year. Drug overdoses, substance ...