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• Veterans Roundup: ScoutComms Honored, Pentagon Preps for Global Warming, Recruiting a New Generation and More

  ScoutComms Honored as ‘Best for the World’ Company Creating Most Positive Customer Impact For the second year in a row, we have been named a “Best for the World” company by B Corporation’s B Lab! We are among 846 Certified B Corporations named a 2017 Best for the World… more

• Veterans Roundup: Veterans More Resilient than Civilians Gallup Finds, Writing about War as Therapy

  Veterans Tame Their Toughest Memories, One Story at a Time Corinne Reilly (@CorinneReilly), The Virginian-Pilot. Writing dry reports about atrocities in Bosnia, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Darfur was what first got Ron Capps (@ron_capps) writing in his free time about the eff… more

• Veterans Roundup: Bob McDonald to be Nominated as VA Secretary, DOD Medical Facilities Failing Patients

  PTSD And The Civil-Military Divide Fred Wellman, Task & Purpose. For PTSD Awareness Day, our fearless leader Fred wrote for Task & Purpose about the lack of context surrounding PTSD that is fueling the civil-military divide. Most Americans suffering from PTSD aren’… more

• Defense & Veterans Roundup: VA Releases Results of Internal Audit, IVMF and SBA Expand Entrepreneurship Training

  The Military's Mental Health Epidemic Is Being Made Worse By The VA Juan Carlos Llorca, Associated Press. The VA health care delay scandal doesn’t discriminate when it comes to physical or mental health care. New mental health patients are supposed to be able to see a doct… more

• Defense and Veterans Roundup: Shinseki Done, Bergdahl Home, 1,700 Veterans Waiting for Appointments

  U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl freed in Taliban prisoner exchange David Cloud (@DavidCloudLAT), Los Angeles Times. The Taliban released the only prisoner of war held from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on Saturday in a surprise action after almost five years in the hands of … more