The 22 veteran suicides per day epidemic is more realistically 25 says Fort Walton Beach physician Dr. Eddie Zant Jr., who treats many TBI-injured soldiers with hyperbaric oxygen therapy to help heal their concussed brains. Despite studies showing the efficacy of this treatment, the Department of Veterans Affairs does not use HBOT therapy. On Oct. 5, 2012, VA cut its coverage of service dogs assigned to people with mental disabilities such as PTSD, according to the Federal Register.
TBI injuries, PTSD treatable with new therapies
Don’t let anyone tell you nothing can be done for the migraines, brain fog, depression, vertigo, fatigue, insomnia and other symptoms after a TBI injury. Armed with facts, you or a loved one who has been injured can bust through the naysayers and obstructive agencies who tell you just to live with it or not to waste your time.
A servant’s heart for veterans
The word “team” perfectly describes the essence of retired Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Frank Dailey II’s being.
Veterans intervene to fill the gap
Investigator James O’Keefe’s video on veteran suicides for Project Veritas asks why an increasing number of military graveyards are being filled with people who died at their own hands rather than in combat. He asserts that VA is unable to treat the underlying causes of veterans’ emotional problems, depending on drug therapies which can mask the problems or have serious side effects that make matters worse.
22 veterans committing suicide every day
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs in 2013 released a study addressing suicides from 1999-2010 which reflected that roughly 22 veterans were committing suicide per day, or one every 65 minutes. Thirty-one percent of these suicides were by veterans 49 and younger while 69 percent were by veterans age 50 and older. “I will say the new statistics - the number is even higher and that is really sad,” said Frank Dailey, a former Air Force Chief Master Sgt. from Navarre who works volunteering with struggling veterans.
Contracting hosts joint-squadron exercise
The 1st Special Operations Contracting Squadron teamed up with the Air Force Test Center Eglin Operational Contracting Division to conduct a contingency exercise here, Feb. 16-18.
Hospital seeks to increase beneficiaries, expand services
Eglin Air Force Base -- A team of medical data analysts recently visited Eglin Hospital to help the 96th Medical Group discover opportunities and utilize its capabilities to the fullest.
First Air National Guard Airman graduates F-35 intel school
Eglin Air Force Base -- As the F-35A Lightning II prepares to fly north in 2020, the Vermont Air National Guard sent an Airman here to become the first National Guardsman to graduate from the Joint Strike Fighter program's Intelligence Formal Training Unit.
Test, train, maintain: Combat ready!
Hurlburt Field, Fla. -- One unit on Hurlburt Field is responsible for training all weather airmen who are preparing to deploy with the skills to train and maintain existing weather systems all across the world and test and validate emerging weather-sensing technologies.
Eagle Claw veteran retires after 42 years of service
Hurlburt Field, Fla. -- John Townsend, the deputy division chief of special operations forces mobility requirements for Air Force Special Operations Command, retired after 42 years of service in and around AFSOC.