We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/apropos_to_the.html Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:47:16 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification This tidbit from the Army's morning Stand-To! email: Army Sponsored Study Appears in Journal of the American Medical Association--Study Helps Army Understand Post-Deployment Soldier Health Issues What is it? An Army study about the overall health of redeploying Soldiers was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Nov. 14. All Soldiers undergo two health assessments when they redeploy; once during an initial Post Deployment Health Assessment (PDHA) and again three to six months later during a Post Deployment Health Reassessment (PDHRA). Walter Reed Army Institute of Research studied the health assessments of the first 88,000 post-OIF Soldiers who... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/apropos_to_the.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/apropos_to_the.html Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:10:58 -0600 http://nccbh.browsermedia.com/cs/public_policy/action_alerts_veterans DISCLAIMER: Although not employed by NCCBH, I do work for a similar trade association of community behavioral health providers. While we certainly need to support the VA's efforts in confronting these issues, the fact remains that, for various reasons, many veterans and their families rely on and receive services from locally-based providers which are more geographically accessible to them. These community based providers are chronically under-funded and over-stretched just meeting the needs of their civilian populations, and the current numbers of returning veterans are exacerbating this situation to a breaking point. I'm no big fan of Obama, but I applaud him for his role in this legislation, and I urge everyone to at least consider supporting this type of legislation and funding.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/apropos_to_the.html#comment-66656 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/11/apropos_to_the.html#comment-66656 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:30:20 -0600