Army Prevents VA From Helping Wounded Soldiers At Ft. Drum

Submitted by seth on Fri, 02/08/2008 - 12:45am.

On February 7, 2008, Morning Edition, an NPR news program, broke the story that COL Becky Backer from the Office of the Surgeon General USA MEDDAC told VA officials at Ft. Drum to stop helping wounded soldiers with disability paperwork.

While Army Surgeon General Eric Schoomaker has denied that this is true, a VA document obtained by NPR contradict his claim. The document goes on to describe wounded soldiers living in deplorable conditions.

Here is a link to the NPR story.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18742202

Here is a link to an earlier NPR story on the subject.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18492376

And here is the VA document.

http://givoice.olympiaworkers.net/army-blocks-va-document

 

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You can send a letter to the Secretary of the Army . . .

Submitted by girights_counselor on Sat, 02/09/2008 - 1:47pm.

Click here to send a letter to the Secretary of the Army protesting this policy!

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