Veterans Affairs Secretary James Nicholson proclaimed that the community-based outpatient clinic in Newark, Ohio, is a “permanent facility” when he dedicated the facility Tuesday. The 3,500-square-foot Newark clinic had opened in March 2004 as a temporary VA clinic. A VA release said, the clinic’s staff of eight provided care to nearly 8,400 patients during Fiscal 2006.
Navy Adm. Samuel J. Paparo Jr. assumed leadership of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, succeeding Navy Adm. John Aquilino at a change of command ceremony, urging action amid China's “increasing intrusive and expansionist claims,” on May 3