Almost Home, but Facing More Delays at Walter Reed
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After nearly three years as an outpatient at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Staff Sgt. John Daniel Shannon had begun the wrenching process of turning himself into a civilian.
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The funeral procession for Army Capt. Mark Stubenhofer was so long yesterday that his family had to wait a half-hour in blustery winds before the service could begin at Arlington National Cemetery.
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The planned release of a US citizen captured in Afghanistan as a suspected enemy combatant has been delayed, a State Department official said Thursday, because of what the US official described as a snag in negotiations with the Saudi government.
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Relief supplies were arriving in south Asia Wednesday, but getting them where they&#39;re needed the most is proving to be a challenge.
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An effort to provide U.S.-made military transport planes to NATO nations stalled Thursday as allied countries said they needed more time to review the plan.
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U.S. Air Forces in Europe is looking to cut wait times and administrative headaches for airmen on their way to a new assignment in Germany.
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Substandard care at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center appears to extend to the nation's vast network of veterans hospitals, the head of a House panel investigating the situation said Thursday.
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A long-delayed upgrade to the airline watch list system faces another three-year wait, a top Homeland Security official says. But this time the government really has it figured out. In 27B Stroke 6.
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Holiday travelers were stuck with long waits for flights at several major airports Wednesday as severe weather hit the eastern half of the United States.
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Some people in England are facing waits of nearly two-and-a-half years for a hearing aid, the RNID says.
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Lawmakers vowed quick action and called for an independent commission to examine poor conditions for soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan at Walter Reed Army Medical Center
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A national conference to help heal the wounds of 16 years of conflict in Somalia has again been postponed because some delegates will not arrive in time and the venue is not ready, a top official said Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates promised Thursday to speed up changes to the military's much-criticized mental health system, declaring "this is something that we can, must and will get fixed."
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The Huntsville-Madison County Health Department has not yet received its order of flu vaccine from the state, and has not been able to reschedule its free flu shot clinics.
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The U.S. military, seeking to   maintain its current elevated troop levels in Iraq, will delay   the departure of roughly 3,500 soldiers serving in the volatile   Ramadi area, defense officials said on Monday.
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Many private workers are returning home with combat-related mental health problems, but their problems often go ignored or are inadequately treated.
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The Corps orders up a passle of new South African-designed and Israeli-made bomb-deflecting vehicles. Plus: Walter Reed is not the only problem -- so many docs deployed to Iraq means a military MD shortage at home. In Danger Room.