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Agent Orange catching up to Vietnam veterans decades later

March 5, 2016 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Don Wilkins Owensboro Messenger Inquirer OWENSBORO, Ky. (AP) — Snow fell outside the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 696 as its members held their monthly meeting Feb. 9. Although attendance was down, most of those present were Vietnam veterans receiving some percentage of disability benefits from their exposure to Agent Orange — a herbicide […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2016, Agent Orange Act, Air Force, Army Huey, Beth Lamb, Billy Milan, Cedar Hills, DAV, Disabled American Veterans, Engineer Battalion, Infantry Divisions, John Yates, Larry Westerfield, Lou Drawdy, North Vietnamese Army, Operation Ranch Hand, Owensboro Messenger Inquirer, Ross Jewell, Sharon Westerfield, Special Forces, Terry Stinson, Third Marine Division, VA, Viet Cong, Vol 35 No 10 | March 5 - March 11

Shinseki had support of many vet groups until end

June 7, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) – He’s one of them — a disabled veteran who lost part of his right foot to a mine in Vietnam, a soldier who riled his superiors in the Bush years by telling Congress the United States needed more troops in Iraq than the administration wanted. That bond is why […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Afghanistan, Agent Orange, Although Shinseki, Eric Shinseki, Hawaii-born Shinseki, Homer Townsend, Iraq, Japanese American, Paul Wolfowitz, President Barack Obama, Sloan Gibson, United States, VA, Veterans Affairs Department, Vietnam War, Vol 33 No 24 | June 7 - June 13

VA’s top health official resigns amid furor — But some calling for Secretary Eric Shinseki to step down from office

May 22, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Pauline Jelinek Associated Press WASHINGTON – The top official for the health care of veterans resigned Friday amid a firestorm over reported delays in care and falsified records at veterans hospitals. Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said he has accepted the resignation of Robert Petzel, the department’s undersecretary for health care, effective immediately. Shinseki […]

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2014, Associated Press, House Republicans, House Speaker John Boehner, House Veterans Affairs Committee, Jeff Miller, Jeffrey Murawsky, President Barack Obama, Richard Griffin, Robert Petzel, United States, VA, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Vol 33 No 22 | May 24 - May 30, White House

New members appointed to VA advisory committee

February 15, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced the appointment of six new members to the Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans on Jan. 31.

Filed Under: Briefs Tagged With: 2013, Advisory Committee, Air Force, Army Celia Renteria Szelwach, Command Sgt, Fort Worth, Harold Hunt, Hawaii Thanh Dinh, Marine Corps Veteran, Santa Ana, Shelia Mitchell, Texas Raymond Jardine, United States, VA, Veterans Affairs, Vol 32 No 8 | February 16 - February 22

What Asian men don’t know can cost them $250,000 — How neglecting to register with the Selective Service System can hurt in the future

September 8, 2011 By Stacy Nguyen

By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly In this country, 6,500 young men turn 18 every day, but something that many are unaware of may come back to haunt them years later.  <!–more–> “Three years ago, there was a Filipino man in San Francisco, who had been working for the VA (Veterans Affairs) hospital for 18 […]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: 2010, 2011, Executive Branch, Filipino, James Shuback, NWAW, Northwest Asian Weekly, Registration Compliance Statistical Information, San Francisco, Selective Service System, Stacy Nguyen, TV, United States, VA, Vol 30 No 37 | September10 - September 16, letter

Filipino WWII vets still waiting for payments

January 21, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WAIPAHU, Hawaii (AP) — Gaudencio Sotio injured his left leg fighting to expel the Japanese military from the Philippines during World War II. Though Filipino, he was fighting under the command of the United States, which had colonized his homeland in the early 1900s.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2010, Armed Forces, Art Caleda, Far East, Gaudencio Sotio, Last February, New Philippine Scouts, Norma Sotio, Philippines, Purple Heart, Though Filipino, United States, VA, Veterans Affairs, Vol 29 No 4 | January 23 - January 29, WAIPAHU, Willie Clark, japan

Rumsfeld nemesis Shinseki to be named VA secretary

December 11, 2008 By Northwest Asian Weekly

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama has chosen retired Gen. Eric K. Shinseki to be the next Veterans Affairs secretary, turning to a former Army chief of staff once vilified by the Bush administration for questioning its Iraq war strategy.

Filed Under: National News Tagged With: 2008, Afghanistan, Bill Richardson, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, GI, General Shinseki, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Iraq, Jim Nicholson, NBC, Paul Rieckhoff, Paul Wolfowitz, President-elect Obama, Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, Susan Rice, Timothy Geithner, VA, Vol 27 No 51 | December 13 - December 19

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