Pvt Charles J Shutt Detachment VAVS

The Pvt Shutt Detachment is implementing, on its own, an out reach program in house. The first meeting is to be held on Wednesday at 6:30 pm on 4/7/10 at the Pvt Shutt Detachment. The meeting is for Marine / Associate members and other local Veterans with combat experiences that need to be expressed and possibly discussed, within the safety of a Veteran's Organization peer group. This meeting is for those Veterans that have recurring thoughts and feelings that may be holding back their integration into civilian and family life fully.

If you are in need to talk about your experiences from when on combat duty from WWII, Vietnam, Gulf, Iraq and Afghanistan - join us, the Shutt Detachment's doors are open to you.

Dr. Raul Perea-Henze was sworn in yesterday at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, a key post in the department’s transformation to provide 21st century service to our nation’s Veterans.

“Dr. Perea-Henze brings essential leadership, enthusiasm and initiative to transform VA,” Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki said. “His leadership will support VA to make policy and strategy decisions based on the highest quality analysis and information.”

Service members deployed for 270 days or more in Iraq or Afghanistan now qualify for 15 days of “administrative absence” on top of their regular annual leave, under a new nonchargeable rest and recuperation policy announced by the Pentagon on Monday

National health care reform, which could be signed into law this week, has a key new benefit for families that will not apply to military families enrolled in the Tricare health insurance program.A key expansion of benefits in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, HR 3590, is a requirement for health insurers to cover unmarried children up to the age of 26 who are carried on the policy of a parent.

The Veterans Affairs Department says it will look again at the rejected claims of veterans who say their Gulf War service caused a mysterious illness, the first step toward potentially compensating them nearly two decades after the war ended.VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said the decision is part of a “fresh, bold look” his department is taking to help veterans who have what’s commonly called “Gulf War illness” and have long felt the government did little to help them.

Military personnel face many challenges after being wounded or injured, but a program providing assistive technologies for wounded service members helps empower them for continued employment.

Since 2004, the Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program (CAP) has filled more than 15,200 requests by wounded service members for assistive technologies. CAP provides wounded veterans with the tools necessary to access computer and telecommunications environments.