Major Ben Richard’s at Bacon Brothers Concert
Dear Friends, This is to reintroduce the amazing Major Ben Richards, a true hero for our time and an amazing American. He led his men bravely and nobly in Iraq, then returned home only to have to continue fighting for his mental, physical and emotional health. Which leads to ...
Kevin & Michael Bacon Stand For The Troops On March 22 in Washington DC
Kevin and Michael Bacon and The Bacon Brothers Band will perform at a Washington DC fundraiser on March 22nd to benefit Stand For The Troops (SFTT). The Show will help support SFTT's mission to safeguard the physical, mental and emotional well-being of our country’s frontline troops – the young ...
Duty: The Leadership Question
Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' revelations in Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War, has served as cannon-fodder for what passes for intelligent political debate in our country. While I am just now getting into the book, it appears to be a most articulate and considered analysis of how people ...
Over-Medicated Veterans: Military Abuse and Public Tolerance
Thomas Catan's article in the Wall Street Journal entitled "For Veterans with PTSD, A New Demon: Their Meds" is not news. The over-use of drugs as routine part of battlefield medicine has been noted since the first days of our military deployments to Iraq in the spring of 2003. Over-reliance ...
F.D.A. on Prescription Drugs
People complain that the F.D.A. takes far too long in approving "new" drugs, but they seem to be equally obtuse in pointing out the dangers of using drugs they have already approved. According to a new article appearing in the New York Times, the F.D.A seeks tighter control on prescriptions ...
Brooks and Body Armor: Lies Kill Brave Patriots
SFTT summarized a report yesterday from Wall Street Journal reporter Kristen Jones which reported that Body Armor King David Brooks was sentenced to jail for 17 years for a $200 million fraud scheme. In the article, it was suggested that the Justice Department decided not to pursue more serious ...
Body Armor King Goes to Jail
David H. Brooks, the founder of DHB Industries Inc., a company that supplied body armor to the U.S. military was sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in a $200 million fraud scheme. As reported in the Wall Street Journal by Kristin Jones: "DHB Industries made body armor that protected ...
Obama’s Dictator is Better than Bush’s Dictator
The Obama administration is once again immersed in a political tragedy in Egypt largely of its own making. How it will play out is largely anyone's guess, but President Obama seems destined to make the same silly mistakes in international diplomacy that have plagued previous administrations. Mind you, his motives ...
President Obama and VA Claims
With great fanfare, President Obama "told a crowd of disabled veterans on Saturday that his administration has made headway with efforts to battle a longstanding backlog of disability claims." As reported in the Washingon Post, “'Today, I can report that we are not where we need to be, but we’re making ...
SFTT and PTS
For several months SFTT, its medical task force and its Board have been thoroughly analyzing the battlefield of brave warriors suffering from Post Traumatic Stress and examining the resources and procedures currently available to treat this crippling disability. We have purposely dropped the "D" from PTSD since most scientific research ...
The Battle of Dai Do, Republic of Viet Nam (May 1968)
In his reflections on this battle along the north bank of the Cua Viet River when one Marine infantry battalion (2d Battalion, 4th Marines) went nose-to-nose with a North Vietnamese Army division, a Marine wrote today (May 3, 2013): AN ENDURING RECOLLECTION WAS A SCENE AT THE MOST DISTANT POINT OF ...
