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Mental health treatment delays hurt veterans

...reach out for help, we need to knock down every potential barrier to care."Last week, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki said the department will add 1,600 mental-health clinicians, including nurses, psychiatrists, psychologists...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-30/mental-health-treatment-delays-hurt-v
Opinion
State Briefs

...officer in charge of a ceremony Monday recognizing the new headgear. On Oct. 17, 2000, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki made the black beret the standard headgear for everyone in the Army. But because an enormous amount of orders needed...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/032002/sta_briefs.shtml
News
Alaska universities partner with VA to improve GI Bill

...the VA, and we are grateful so many schools are joining us as partners in this unprecedented effort," VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said. The Yellow Ribbon Program, a provision of the new Post-9/11 GI Bill, funds tuition expenses that exceed...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/071409/reg_463478544.shtml
Treat Alaska vets in Alaska if possible

...achieving the change in chemotherapy policy, Murkowski this year elicited a pledge from Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and his deputy that they'd examine the $4 billion a year budget used now to buy civilian health care for covered...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-04-05/treat-alaska-vets-alaska-if-possible
Opinion
Medal of Honor recipient criticizes war planning

...in particular its military leaders, have handled more recent wars. He writes that the Army chief of staff, Gen. Eric Shinseki, was right to tell Congress in 2003 that the Iraq operation would require hundreds of thousands more troops than the...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/102408/boo_347906460.shtml
Begich meets with VA official

ANCHORAGE - The office of U.S. Sen. Mark Begich says Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki plans to visit Alaska to see firsthand the needs of veterans living in rural parts of the state. Begich spokeswoman Julie Hasquet...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/092410/reg_711593004.shtml
Regional News
In visit to Alaska, VA secretary says agency must do better outreach, especially rural areas

...remote communities where access to services is difficult, the nation's top official for veterans' affairs said. Eric Shinseki, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, said the issue of access has a different meaning in Alaska, where...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2011-05-31/visit-alaska-va-secretary-says-agency-m
State
Murkowski presses for more specialty care in Alaska for VA patients

...who must travel to the VA hospital in Seattle for specialty care needs. She questioned Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and the VA Undersecretary for Health Robert Petzel about making more such care available in the state. "I think there...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-04-02/murkowski-presses-more-specialty-care-a
Local
Alaska editorial: May Shinseki do right by vets

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Eric Shinseki is a cinch to sail through his Senate confirmation vote as secretary of Veterans Affairs. This is good news for Alaska's more...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011809/opi_378664007.shtml
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