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Sep 10, 2012
| MILITARY TIMES
Lawmaker: Troops need time off for TAP training
A key lawmaker said he likes the improvements being made in military transition assistance programs but worries that service members might not get enough time away from duties to take full advantage of those improvements.
Sep 7, 2012
| FEDERAL COMPUTER WEEK
Conference costs draw congressional ire
What began as a dramatic but seemingly isolated scandal over wasteful conference spending at the General Services Administration has expanded to include a dozen agencies.
Sep 6, 2012
| STARS & STRIPES
Tricare networks eyed to improve veterans' access to care
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has proposed opening military Tricare networks of civilian health care providers to veterans who can’t get timely mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Sep 5, 2012
| HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Attorney pleads guilty in Houston to stealing $2.3 million from disabled vets
A 73-year-old attorney pleaded guilty in Houston federal district court Tuesday to conspiring with his wife to steal $2.3 million from 49 disabled veterans and then hiding the thefts by creating fake reports, imaginary bank accounts and filing a bogus income tax return.
Sep 5, 2012
VA investigators interview family of veteran whose room was monitored by covert camera
Department of Veterans Affairs investigators Tuesday interviewed the family of a brain-damaged veteran whose room was monitored by James A. Haley VA Medical Center officials using a camera disguised as a smoke detector.
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