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	<description>Legislative Updates from Doug Williams, Chairman Legislative Affairs Committee, American Legion, Department of Michigan</description>
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		<title>VA Begins Nationwide GI Bill Advertising Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VA Begins Nationwide GI Bill Advertising Campaign to Reach Student Veterans and Schools Ads to Be Placed in College Newspapers, Radio Stations, Campus Venues and On-Line Sites to Ensure Student Veterans and Service Members Receive Their Education Benefits
WASHINGTON (Feb. 23, 2010) &#8211; The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) today announced a two-month, nationwide advertising campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOD Press Release Jan 15, 09 Army suicide data December 09</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army released suicide data today for the month of December. Among active-duty soldiers, there were ten potential suicides: one has been confirmed as suicide, and nine remain under investigation. For November, the Army reported 11 potential suicides among active-duty soldiers. Since the release of that report, three have been confirmed as suicides, and eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOD Press Release Feb 17, 2010 Army releases suicide data forJan 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army released suicide data today for the month of January.Â  Among active-duty soldiers, there were 12 potential suicides:Â  one has been confirmed as suicide, and 11 remain under investigation.Â  For December, the Army reported ten potential suicides among active-duty soldiers.Â  Since the release of that report, three have been confirmed as suicides, and seven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Associated Press News Release Feb 11, 2010 Post 9/11 GI Billpayments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON â€“ The Veterans Affairs Department is more efficiently cutting checks for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to attend college this semester, following a rocky rollout last fall that left veterans so cash-strapped there was concern some wouldn&#8217;t re-enroll.
As of Feb. 5, nearly 90 percent of enrollments for the 167,000 veterans submitted to the VA for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRESIDENT SIGNS VETERANSâ€™ EMERGENCY CARE FAIRNESS ACT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PRESIDENT SIGNS VETERANSâ€™ EMERGENCY CARE FAIRNESS ACT
Chairman Akaka introduced Senate bill to cover gaps in emergency care for veterans with limited insurance
WASHINGTON, D.C. â€“ Senate Veteransâ€™ Affairs Committee Chairman Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI) today praised President Barack Obamaâ€™s signing of the Veteransâ€™ Emergency Care Fairness Act of 2009.Â  
â€œFor veterans with limited insurance, a trip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Injured Veterans Suffer Consequences of Lingering Communication Gap between DoD and VA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEWS FROMâ€¦
CHAIRMAN BOB FILNER
HOUSE COMMITTEE ON VETERANSâ€™ AFFAIRS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Kristal DeKleer at (202) 225-9756
Injured Veterans Suffer Consequences of Lingering Communication Gap between DoD and VA
Washington, D.C. â€“ On Thursday, January 21, 2010, the House Veteransâ€™ Affairs Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, led by Chairman Harry Mitchell (D-AZ), conducted a hearing to evaluate the social work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA Press Release Jan 21, 10 Recovery of Post 9/11 GI BillAdvance Payments</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON â€“The Department of Veterans Affairs is beginning the process of recovering advance payments made available during the fall 2009 semester to Veterans and servicemembers who applied for education benefits.
â€œThe advance payments were a huge success and helped thousands of student Veterans during the first days of the historic Post 9/11 GI Bill focus on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA, DoD discuss suicide research, screening</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Military Times 
VA, DoD discuss suicide research, screening
By Kelly Kennedy
As Veterans Affairs and Defense Department officials gathered at a conference Jan. 12 to discuss what research tells them about suicide in the military, a young Army captain stood up to ask a question:
â€œWhat can we do at the unit level? Thatâ€™s the only reason my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA Reaching Out for Spring Term with New GI Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[VA Reaching Out to Students and Schools to Speed Benefit Payments
&#8220;Shared Responsibilities&#8221; Among Schools, Students and VA
WASHINGTON (Jan. 20, 2010) &#8211; In a coordinated effort to speed up the processing of Post 9/11 GI Bill education benefits this spring, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced today that it has been reaching out to student [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOD Press Release Jan 15, 09 Army suicide data December 09</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Army released suicide data today for the month of December.Â Among active-duty soldiers, there were ten potential suicides:Â one has been confirmed as suicide, and nine remain under investigation.Â For November, the Army reported 11 potential suicides among active-duty soldiers.Â Since the release of that report, three have been confirmed as suicides, and eight remain under investigation.

There were [...]]]></description>
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