The March 13 edition of warrior connection discussed the failure of the choice program to provide me - major doug rokke my own medical care after choice program director had promised us the service during a previously broadcast warrior connection. His apology is:
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Below is Health Net Federal Services' statement. We hope you'll be able to
read it in its entirety on your radio program.
We regret that you have found our efforts on your behalf to be
unsatisfactory.
Developing a complex new program like Veterans Choice is a team effort, and
Health Net Federal Services is working closely with Congress, the
Department of Veterans Affairs, health care providers and many others to
improve service levels and provide veterans with the appropriate,
coordinated and convenient care they have earned for their service to our
nation.
The Choice program recently completed its first year of operation, and we –
as well as all stakeholders in the program – learned a great deal from this
early experience about what it will take to cultivate an effective
public/private partnership that efficiently connects community health care
providers with veterans who are eligible for the program.
There was good news last week when the VA announced it is eliminating
administrative burdens placed on community health care providers. We expect
this will help us eliminate the current backlog of provider claims and help
ensure timely payment of clean claims going forward.
Supporting those who serve in the military is in our DNA. Partnering with
the Department of Defense since 1988, we are the nation’s longest-tenured
contractor for the TRICARE program, which serves active duty military
personnel and their dependents.
Health Net strongly supports VA's vision for a single community care
program that is easy to understand, simple to administer and meets the
needs of veterans, community health care providers and VA staff. We will
continue working closely with VA to help make this a reality.
Brad Kieffer
Health Net, Inc.
818-676-6833 - office
818-400-7317 - mobile
www.twitter.com/hn_bradkieffer
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We then read and discussed the Defense Nuclear Agency March 1991 memo stating how dangerous depleted uranium is and then the March 1 1991 Los Alamos memo - order I was given as I started depleted uranium friendly fire clean up following ground combat during ODS to lie in all reports to avoid all liability for adverse health and environmental effects.
http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html
We then finished of the program in memory of SSg Paul Lyons former co-host who committed suicide one year ago on how to fix the broken VA system.
Before the crash- SUICIDE AN EMAIL FROM SSG PAUL LYONS
I have had the privilege to have co-hosted With Doug Rokke And Denise Nichols on Gary Nulls Radio Station, known as "The Progressive Radio Network", out of New York City, regarding the various exposures that occurred during Desert Storm, whether they be concerning Depleted Uranium, Biological Warfare, and Chemical exposures; not to mention experimental shots with records of them being given as well as Nerve Agent pre-Treatment pills that we were ordered to take, that occurred during Operation Desert Storm. I and well over 275K Troops are said to be on the Gulf War Registry. I have also been exposed...I have two post war Children who are also sick, including my wife. How's that for a "Welcome Home Party"? The VA and DOD Need to Restart their Children and Spouse Health Registry and get with program! We didn't ask for this and I DAMN sure wouldn't have intentionally exposed my Wife and now my sick post Gulf War Children, had I known that the birth defects and Illnesses were transmittable...This has been a NIGHTMARE for my wife and I. Someone In The Federal Government needs To Pick up the dropped ball and GET WITH THE PROGRAM!! We Also Need New Congressional Hearing's, from somebody in Congress with the backbone and fortitude of Former US Senator Donald Riegle, (R) Who saw the problem back in the early 1990's and held hearings, trying to get to the TRUTH of Gulf WAR Illnesses and now we have possible OIF exposures as well. This Government needs to settle this most important issue once and for all....If our current CBRN, also known as NBC gear is faulty, then let's fix the problem...WE know it there are GAPS, so let's FIX IT!!
The crash suicide
SSG Paul Lyons 101st airborne us army retired- ultimate veterans advocate and my co-host of warrior connection on prn.fm reached the breaking point of no return and committed suicide on Sunday march 15 2015 . Paul had called national hotline for help on march 7 at about 3 am and they failed to help. Paul called Major Denise Nichols, RN for help. Denise called me, I got Chaplain Brian Manigold – Danville (Illinois) illiana VA Medical Center to call Paul about 3:30 am. Brian got to Paul but being about 400 miles away could only offer verbal help. Hot line- Va- DOD failed Paul. In our last talk only days before he left us Paul told me he had nothing left. He had outlined the problems and offered the solution in one of his last emails to me. The army (101st AB) and va who paul once trusted had dumped him like so many others, Overt retaliation aimed at Paul because of Paul’s efforts and on others he loved took its toll. Paul’s abandonment and the ongoing abandonment of so many others including me cannot be allowed to continue. we must fix the va now and stop ongoing trashing of God's earth. Our nation and God just lost one of the finest we must now force va and dod to change. Please help edit or add to these recommendations. I presented these on Paul’s behalf with all talking about Paul’s loss during Danville illinois illiana va town hall meeting yesterday- March 25.
Doug Rokke
10 TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THESE WARS. Ethical moral dimension
11, REPORT ACTUAL CASUALTIES NOT REDUCED NUMBERS
From Ray Clark:
Why are so many of our young Military personnel so messed up?
Many people think that Wounded Warrior’s are mainly comprised of those who have gone overseas to defend our Country. That is true to a great extent, but many of those who have not been deployed are also showing symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress.
Why? They haven’t been in combat, or have they? Divorce rate 60%
Most young service members have come from a broken HOME / and LIFE. Their hope, dreams and future was aborted when they were children and it took a toll on their lives.
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What are signs of PTSD. Hypertension, irritability, fear, hyperventilation, hypervisual, you express anger and lack of patience. Then you ISOLATE.
Much of their family history is off the radar and the individual doesn’t talk about their family problems.
The three most destructive substance’s frequently found in broken homes… 1. Alcohol, Drugs (prescr. & illegal) and Porn. They help to create…
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The effects on the child are…
Why are so many of our young Military personnel so messed up?
Many people think that Wounded Warrior’s are mainly comprised of those who have gone overseas to defend our Country. That is true to a great extent, but many of those who have not been deployed are also showing symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress.
Why? They haven’t been in combat, or have they? Divorce rate 60%
Most young service members have come from a broken HOME / and LIFE. Their hope, dreams and future was aborted when they were children and it took a toll on their lives.
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What are signs of PTSD. Hypertension, irritability, fear, hyperventilation, hypervisual, you express anger and lack of patience. Then you ISOLATE.
Much of their family history is off the radar and the individual doesn’t talk about their family problems.
The three most destructive substance’s frequently found in broken homes… 1. Alcohol, Drugs (prescr. & illegal) and Porn. They help to create…
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The effects on the child are…
* The reason grandparents and grandchildren are so close is that they both have a common enemy, the parent.
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The Military is a family…It is a close-knit world-wide community of like- minded people who willingly put their lives on hold in order to protect us at home. They risk their lives everyday to keep us free and they are connected by a common mind-set of values, exceptionalism and purpose. They are truly America’s best.
1.Since the conception of America, Young men and women have been joining our military to get away from home and start their own career. They have always come into our military family with past memories, wounds, trauma, brokenness, loneliness, disappointment and anger. They have always been running from something, but not from the amount of broken homes we are seeing today. Many are messed up when they get here.
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How do get ourselves fixed ?
WHY??
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Well, The ball is now in your court---play it well !!
Thank you
Life after Trauma #26
Suicide prevention
September is Suicide Prevention month and it is a sad commentary that we have so many suicides among our Military personnel , Veterans and their families. There is a lot of discussion as to what the cause and effects suicide has on the individual and their families and I thought I‘d give you mine.
As a Marine combat veteran who has fought suicidal thoughts for more than forty years, I think I have some ideas on how to cut down on the loss of so many of our national hero’s.
To call for help…
Jacksonville Vet Center 910-577-1100
Durham V.A. 888-870-6890
Boots on the Ground 919-907-0577
Moment of Silence
Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs - Gulf War Illness Research Program
Integration Panel Meeting of May 8, 2015
David K. Winnett, Jr.
Those
who suffer from the ravages of chronic illness face daily burdens that
would be unimaginable to most. Many thousands of Veterans of the 1991
Persian Gulf War carry the burdens that come with chronic illness.
Chronic illness affects not only the way we feel physically, it takes a
huge toll on us emotionally, spiritually, and financially. When you
don’t feel well you cannot perform physical and mental tasks the way you
once did, and your personal relationships are often greatly strained.
The lack of physical capacity more often than not leads to unemployment.
Together, these burdens can quickly overwhelm those who are not blessed
with social and financial backup systems.
Paul Lyons lived with
the burdens of chronic illness for over two decades. Like most who
served in the military, Paul was a warrior and not easily defeated,
physically, mentally, or emotionally. But sadly, even the greatest of
warriors have a breaking point. For more than two decades after being
medically retired from the Army, Paul was a well-known national advocate
for sick Gulf War Veterans. Paul was instrumental in forming the Desert
Storm Justice Foundation. His activities included lobbying members of
Congress in Washington D.C., and conducting highly intensive personal
research related to Gulf War Illness as well as investigation of the
rates of death in Gulf War Veterans.
I met Paul in 2010, at our
Gulf War 20th Anniversary Reunion in Dallas. He was a very kind and good
hearted man. Despite his physical frailties and obvious pain he never
missed an opportunity for a laugh. Paul was fiercely committed to
exposing what he strongly believed was a DOD-led effort to suppress
information relative to our exposures to battlefield toxins and
unapproved pharmaceuticals. He had gone to extraordinary lengths in
order to obtain a number of very compelling documents from DOD that
painted a quite unflattering picture of the DOD in its efforts to
minimize Gulf War Illness where public opinion and the media were
concerned.
Paul put together a very powerful presentation for
one of the Dallas sessions, including a PowerPoint presentation that
literally had members of the audience gasping in shock and disbelief at
what Paul had managed to uncover via numerous FOIA requests submitted to
DOD.
Following the Dallas reunion Paul returned home to
Arkansas and continued to do battle with the bureaucracy that is the
United States Government, continually trying to uncover that next piece
of evidence that might one day shed a bright light on the cause of Gulf
War Illness.
But sadly, over time Paul’s illness began to chip
away at his mental well-being. As his personal life began to fall apart
so too did Paul’s will to press on. On March 14, 2015 Paul made a
conscious decision to end his suffering. He took his own life that day
because he felt that he could no longer put up a valiant fight. Paul was
only 56 years old.
I greatly admired Paul's tenacity and
stick-to-itiveness where his research into Gulf War Illness was
concerned. Although I knew him only for a brief time his death took the
wind from me, and the many other Gulf War Veterans who knew him. I'm
saddened that he is no longer among us, but at the same time I rejoice
in knowing that his pain has finally ended. Paul will be missed, but his
memory will live on in the hearts of everyone who knew him.
Very
sadly, the incidence of suicide has become an all too frequent
occurrence among Gulf War Veterans. Over a long period of time many
ailing Veterans grow tired of living with constant pain, fatigue, and
the myriad of other life altering symptoms associated with Gulf War
Illness. Not to mention the strain it puts on the family unit. My prayer
is that we’ll soon see a feeling of renewed hope begin to spread across
the Gulf War Veteran community as the more promising Gulf War Illness
studies begin to bear fruit. Let us always remember that the lives of
many thousands of our Veterans depend on the results that we are
collectively seeking during these proceedings.
At this time I
respectfully ask that our panel engage in a moment of silence in honor
of a very special man, Paul D, Lyons, United States Army, Retired.
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