News tagged with 'Military'

The military is contacting Veterans Affairs offices acknowledging that burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan "potentially present health risks" to returning veterans and outlines how to handle claims. The letter represents an about face by the Pentagon that open burn pits represent a health hazard.

A disturbing video is circulating the Internet showing the death of two Reuters journalists and civilians and the wounding of two children by the airmen in two Apache helicopters in July 2007. Reuters wants a full investigation.

The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit saying the KBR, the world's largest defense contractor violated its contract with the Army and has overcharged U.S. taxpayers.

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a common brain change seen in about one in five veterans returning from Iraq and Afganistan. Now researchers are scanning the brain and are able to see subtle traumatic brain injuries - the first step to effective treatment for all kinds of neurological disorders that come from trauma.

Forty years later, the U.S. government will add three ailments to the list of those caused by exposure to Agent Orange, the toxic herbicide sprayed in the jungles of Vietnam during Operation Ranch Hand. The recongition could mean disability benefits for an additional 200,000 military personnel

The House and Senate are considering a bill, named after Sgt. Carmelo Rodriguez who was unable to sue the military for medical malpractice under the Feres Doctrine. Pending legislation could overturn the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

The rate of suicide among Army troops is at a three-decade high, the Army announced today.   In 2008, 128 returning soldiers killed themselves. Deaths are highest among members of the Army and Marines. In response, the military is hiring more psychologists and says it's training soldiers to recognize PTSD in each other.  

In a decision that will have major implications on future Agent Orange litigation, the Supreme Court deadlocked Monday in a case brought by a Vietnam War veteran suffering from cancer due to exposure to the toxic substance. A $180 million 1984 class action settlement had foreclosed the possibility of individual lawsui

In a case that may allow thousands of Vietnam War veterans to bring litigation against chemical companies that made the defoliant Agent Orange, three Supreme Court justices suggested that Dow Chemical Co.'s and Monsanto Co.'s 1984 settlement does not bar veterans who developed cancer later in life from filing lawsui

Researchers with The Institute of Medicine, a division of the National Academy of Sciences, announced Thursday that a type of leukemia is linked to exposure to Agent Orange. According to the institute, exposure to the herbicide, which was used during the Vietnam War in South Vietnam and Cambodia to clear dense jungle,

The United States Supreme Court will decide if two Vietnam veterans can continue their lawsuit against several chemical companies over exposure to Agent Orange. A $180 million 1984 class action settlement had foreclosed the possibility of individual lawsuits against more than a dozen companies that made the product, i

According to a new report released this week by the Pentagon, Navy sailors were intentionally exposed to several nerve agents in an operation known as Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) during the 1960s. Six tests carried out in the Pacific Ocean from 1964 to 1968 exposed thousands of men to sarin gas, a biol

The United States Marine Corps resumed testing of the controversial V-22 Osprey this week, two years after the aircraft was grounded following two fatal accidents. Four Marines were killed in North Carolina and 19 others died in Arizona when their Ospreys malfunctioned and crashed. Several military watchdog organizat

An explosion ripped holes in a scrap metals factory Friday (1/25/2002), killing one worker and injuring six of his co-workers and many other people who came to the rescue. Investigators interviewed workers from Hi-Temp Specialty Metals Inc. to find the cause of the blast, but were slowed by a language barrier. Translat

The Pentagon has resumed an inquiry into the controversial V-22 Osprey program after receiving information that the investigation of an April 2000 Osprey crash that killed nineteen Marines was mishandled. The Pentagon's inspector general opened the investigation after the Marine Corps' commandant, General James L. Jon