Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
The Army National Guard (link here) is launching a new suicide prevention campaign. Statistics have shown that suicide is the third highest killer of citizen Soldiers in the past year. 47 died in combat, 45 in accidents, and 42 were lost to suicide. As the linked article points out, the active duty component has many resources allocated to suicide prevention. […]
Read moreIt has come to my attention that Operation Straight Up, part of the Department of Defense’s America Supports You program, is distributing copies of their extremely creepy video game, Left Behind: Eternal Forces, to service members currently serving in Iraq. OSU makes no bones about its commitment to an end-times-focused brand of Christianity. The game, which plays like the pabulum […]
Read moreFrom the Jewish Exponent Enlisted Man Competes for ‘Army Soldier of Year’ August 09, 2007 – Jared Shelly, Staff Writer Although U.S. Army Spc. Richard J. Schmidt Jr. did 81 pushups in just two minutes, ran two miles in only 12 minutes and 36 seconds, and expertly peppered a target with bullets, the most grueling part of a series of […]
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Stiebel to stay in touch with ‘Burgh, study Torah, via Internet From the Jewish Chronicle of Pittsburgh By Susan Jacobs Associate Editor Pittsburgh resident Victor Stiebel recently reported for active duty with a reserve unit of the Marine Corps. Soon, he will ship out from Camp Lejeune, N.C., to serve in Iraq. But even though Stiebel, 49, is trading the hills of […]
Read moreNavy vet: Chaplains tried converting me By William Petroski – The Des Moines Register Posted : Monday May 14, 2007 12:35:14 EDT Navy veteran David Miller said that when he checked into the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Iowa City, he didn’t realize he would get a hard sell for Christian fundamentalism along with treatment for his kidney stones. Miller, […]
Read moreThis is slightly off the general military meme of this site. Last week, my wife’s great-aunt fell during a mandatory “wellness” walk at her nursing home, the Greenwood House, a Jewish nursing home near Trenton, NJ. She had both a severe heart condition and osteoporosis, the combination of which should have abrogated hazardous exercise. In the fall, she broke her […]
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Melvin Rosen, a survivor of the Bataan Death March, recently passed in Falls Church, Va. His story told in his own words, from a US-Japan WWII dialog site : Arriving in the Philippines I was graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1940. My parents were poor immigrants from Russia. I was extremely proud to be […]
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