Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Veterans Report 7/5

The Veterans' Medical Package Benefit

The Department of Veteran's Affairs is required by law to provide eligible veterans needed hospital care and outpatient care services. VA defines "needed" as care or service that will promote, preserve, and restore health. The Veterans' Medical Benefits Package emphasizes preventive and primary care, offering a full range of outpatient and inpatient services. Visit the Military.com Veterans' Medical Benefits Section to learn more about this valuable benefit.
VA Opens 25 New Clinics
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs has announced plans to open 25 new community-based clinics in 17 states and American Somoa. The new facilities, called community-based outpatient clinics, or CBOCs, will start becoming operational this year. The new clinics will be located in Alabama, American Samoa, Arizona, California, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin. Local VA officials will keep communities and their veterans informed of milestones in the creation of the new CBOCs.
If you reside in the Coachella Valley of Southern CA.
Palm Desert, CA VA Clinic
41865 Boardwalk, Suite 103
Palm Desert, CA 92211
760-341-5570
Interviewees Wanted for Television Documentary
Lou Reda Productions, located in Easton, PA, is producing a television documentary on the USS New Jersey. We are looking to interview several individuals who: 1) Served in ground forces in Vietnam and feel the presence of the Battleship New Jersey had a direct effect in keeping them alive (i.e., the coverage she provided had a direct effect in keeping hostile attacks that would have potentially proved deadly at bay) 2) Was a member of the Marine detachment serving onboard the battleship in 1983, at the time of the Beirut barracks attack. If you were involved in either of these incidents and would be interested in participating please contact Liz Wambold via email at liz@louredaproductions.com.
VA Adds Maps to Online Gravesite Locator
The grave locations of more than three million veterans and dependents buried in national cemeteries can be found more easily now because the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has added maps of burial sections online that can be printed from home computers and at national cemetery kiosks. The maps are at the gravesite locator website, which helps veterans' families, former comrades-in-arms and others find the cemeteries where veterans are buried. With the new online feature, people enter a veteran's name to search, click on the "Buried At" (burial location) link and a map of the national cemetery is displayed, showing the section where the grave is located.

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