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Wounded Ounded Warrior Arrior Caree Winter 2009/2010 Wounded Warrior Care Tragedy in Texas Recovery Act Spending Testing Disaster Readiness Features Tragedy in Texas 6 VA offers support and mourns its own losses at Fort Hood Recovery Act Spending 11 Stimulating more than the economy 6 Building a Better Arm 14 Amputee veteran is on a mission to revolutionize prosthetics Charting a Course Towards Readjustment 16 Outward Bound partners with VA to offer expeditions for veterans Testing Disaster Readiness 18 National exercise evaluates new equipment and technology Better Care for Wounded Warriors 20 VA polytrauma team’s overseas visit furthers collaboration with DoD The Unbreakable Code 23 11 Navajo warriors are seeking support for a Code Talkers museum Veterans Day 2009 25 A photo tour of observances around the Department Departments 3 Feedback 31 Medical Advances 4 Outlook 33 Have You Heard 5 News You Can Use 36 Honors 25 26 Around Headquarters 39 Heroes 30 Introducing 40 Pearl Harbor VAnguard VA’s Employee Magazine On the cover Winter 2009/2010 Wounded troops from Afghanistan and Vol. LV, No. 6 Iraq arrive at Scott Air Force Base in Printed on 50% recycled paper Illinois, one leg of their long journey to various military and VA medical facilities Editor: Lisa Gaegler across the country. Their trip back to the Assistant Editor/Senior Writer: Gary Hicks states began at Landstuhl Regional Medical Photo Editor: Robert Turtil Center in Germany. A VA polytrauma Staff Writer:Amanda Hester team recently visited Landstuhl to gain valuable insights into wounded warrior Published by the Office of Public Affairs (80D) transport and care transition from DoD to VA. photo by Senior Airman Teresa M. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Jennings/U.S. Air Force 810 Vermont Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20420 (202) 461-7427 E-mail: [email protected] To Our Readers: A Change for the Better www.va.gov/opa/publications/vanguard.asp You may have noticed that we’re calling this the Winter 2009/2010 issue. That’s not because we’re changing VAnguard from a bi- monthly to a quarterly. It’s to allow us to adjust our production schedule and bring the magazine to you in a more timely manner. Look for the next issue, March/April, in early March. 2 VAnguard • Winter 2009/2010 FEEDBACKFEEDBACKOUTLOOK Where are the OEF/OIF eration Iraqi Freedom. August 2008, the VA volun- working there, volunteering Women Veterans? With my family’s help, I teer office suggested that I 80 to 90 hours each month in I always look forward to read­ wanted to give something back transfer my volunteer services conjunction with VA. It keeps ing each issue of VAnguard to the VA volunteers and those to the Hawaii State Veterans me mentally alert! as I find many of the articles who work so hard at our VA Cemetery, which is now do- D. Zane Schlemmer informative, educational, or hospital to help us recover. So ing veteran burials since the D-Day Veteran/Volunteer just plain inspiring. When I I started a T-shirt company National Memorial Cemetery State Veterans Cemetery saw on the cover that the Sep­ that gives its profits to VA vol­ of the Pacific is full. So I’m Hawaii tember/October issue included unteers and disabled veterans. an article on “The Nation’s I was honored that James A New Look for the Web Site Newest Veterans,” I eagerly Leahy, VA Canteen Service flipped to the article, only to supervisor, and Craig Fishbein, Same name, new face! On Veterans Day, VA rolled out the first be disappointed. Oklahoma City VA Medical phase of a large-scale Web renovation. This was a great op­ Center canteen supervisor, This is the first and most visible step in changing VA’s Web portunity to focus attention took a chance and allowed me domain to better serve veterans and their families by making it on women veterans as a sig­ (showed me, encouraged me) easier for them to find the information they need about benefits nificant portion of our newest to become a VA vendor. Craig and programs. Long term, VA’s goals for its Web presence are veteran population. While has ordered from my company to make it easier and more inviting for veterans by focusing the article did make mention twice. I used the profits to buy on topics and tasks rather than office functions, improving the of women in a few places, it Wii Fit games, TVs and more navigational disappointingly did not in­ for Richard Maxey, VA volun­ structure, and clude any photos of Operation teer supervisor in Oklahoma making it Enduring Freedom/Operation City. more visually Iraqi Freedom women veter­ I hope my company appealing. ans. grows to do more to give back The As women are in combat to the finest hospital and its new Web site zones, experiencing combat, staff, who really do care for design will though not assigned to infan­ its veterans. Not only getting cover more try or battery combat units, us well, but wanting us to be than 500 VA they very much are the face successful. My company Web Web sites and of our newest veteran. It is site is www.sittinprettyusa.com. about 80,000 often not VA staff but other Thank you for helping our pages. Ma­ older veterans and the public veterans. jor changes that don’t see the faces of Larry Van Schuyver include our newest combat veterans. Patient improve­ This article would have been Oklahoma City VAMC ments to the a great format to assure that navigational we all see women as not only 65th Anniversary structure that veterans but OEF/OIF combat of D-Day ensure consis­ veterans. You can imagine my surprise tency among all sites and consolidate major topics; a slideshow Thank you for your when I received and read the section that showcases current VA events or hot topics; and bot­ continued work and great July/August issue and found tom columns that feature news items, highlights and a “Quick magazine. my picture on pages 28 and List” with links to important applications such as Veterans On Kathy Zima-Sauer 30 with the article, “65th An­ Line Applications (VONAPP) and MyHealtheVet. Check out Women Veterans Program niversary of D-Day: France VA’s new Web face at www.va.gov. Manager Remembers.” VA Eastern Kansas Health Never in my wildest Care System dreams did I ever expect to be awarded the French Legion of We Want to Hear from You Canteen Service Giving Honor medal by the French Have a comment on something you’ve seen in VAnguard? Back to Veterans President Nicolas Sarkozy and We invite reader feedback. Send your comments to van­ I wanted to write and tell you to meet our President Barack [email protected]. You can also write to us at: VAnguard, Office how your Canteen Service is Obama, who mentioned me in of Public Affairs (80D), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 giving back to veterans. I am his address there. Quite above Vermont Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., 20420. Include a retired Navy Reserve master and beyond! your name, title and VA facility. We won’t be able to pub­ chief. I am 100 percent dis­ I also wanted you to lish every letter, but we’ll use representative ones. We may abled due to injuries received know that I’ve been a VA need to edit your letter for length or clarity. during my two tours in Op­ volunteer for many years. In VAnguard • Winter 2009/2010 3 OUTLOOK National Cemeteries: Transforming for the 21st Century Steve L. Muro Acting Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs As VA Secretary Eric K. Virtually all NCA direc­ choose either the new medal­ ing of Washington Crossing Shinseki leads the department tors, foremen and other man­ lion, or a traditional govern­ National Cemetery in Bucks in fundamental and compre­ agers have attended superviso­ ment headstone or marker, County, Pa., in early 2010. In hensive change to become a ry and leadership training, and to memorialize veterans who late summer 2010, VA plans 21st-century organization, the front-line employees regularly died on or after Nov. 1, 1990, to conduct first burials at a National Cemetery Adminis­ attend courses related to their and are interred in privately- cemetery expansion to be con­ tration is striving to improve job functions, such as heavy marked graves in private cem­ structed on land leased from the access and quality of ser­ equipment operations, safety, eteries. We anticipate that the the Department of the Navy vices available at VA national landscape maintenance, cus­ medallion will be available in at Marine Corps Air Station cemeteries. tomer service or other topics early 2010. Miramar, Calif. Administered Already a national leader associated with the operational NCA’s newest responsi­ by Fort Rosecrans National in veteran-client service, NCA requirements of NCA. bility is to process first notices Cemetery, this expansion will earned the highest overall rat­ VA has streamlined the of death for veterans. In fiscal resume the option for the ing in customer satisfaction of process of burial eligibility year 2009, NCA captured and interment of casketed remains any federal agency or private determinations and interment entered data into VA informa­ for thousands of veterans in corporation participating in scheduling with establishment tion systems that ensured the the San Diego area. the American Customer Satis­ of the National Scheduling necessary discontinuance of Gravesite expansion faction Index survey, achieving Office, also located in St. Lou­ approximately $17.4 million projects are now underway to a score of 95 out of 100 in is.
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