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Panetta orders review of mental diagnoses
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday he has ordered all branches of the military to conduct an extensive review of mental health diagnoses amid criticism of how the services treat the men and women suffering the invisible wounds of the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tags: Leon Panetta , DoD , PTSD , Senate , Congress
Army veterans use filmmaking as therapy for PTSD
Tags: DoD , Army , Veterans Affairs , PTSD ,
Almost half of new vets seek disability
A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for injuries they say are service-related.
Tags: Veteran Affairs , PTSD , DoD , Disabled American Veterans , National Guard and Reserves
US Army more selective on recruits, re-enlistments
The Army is slashing the size of the active duty personnel from about 570,000 at the height of the Iraq war to 490,000 by 2017. The cutbacks began last year, and as of the end of March the Army was down to less than 558,000 troops.
Tags: Army , DoD , Richard Mustion , David Rodriguez , Ray Odierno
Obama war request cuts DoD budget by 26 percent
Bloomberg News reports that the Obama administration wants to cut the DoD budget through troop reductions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Tags: Bloomberg News , DoD Report , Barack Obama , budget , troops , Dorobek Insider
