Veterans Affairs has created a Web page specifically for the new inter-agency task force looking into the bureaucracy confronting combat veterans who try to get help from VA and other federal agencies. The VA has included an e-mail function (find it on the Web page under Contact) to enable anyone to send comments to the task force. A VA release says the comments “will be studied by the task force, used in the panel’s evaluation of gaps in service, and form the basis of recommended solutions.” This is one of the groups the Administration has established following the revelations of substandard care and bureaucratic hassles for some outpatients at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
The Air Force kicked off one of its biggest exercises this week with the latest edition of Bamboo Eagle, featuring combined virtual and live training scenarios focused on test the command-and-control “nervous system” leaders need to operate on a complex joint battlefield spread over vast distances.
