Craig Collins is a veteran freelance writer and a regular Faircount Media Group contributor who has almost twenty years experience reporting about government, the military, health care and the sciences.
It almost didn’t happen, but relentless lobbying by advocacy groups, along with some 11th-hour procedural maneuvers by then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, finally pulled it off: Just before the …
On May 22, 2010, when the Coast Guard opened the doors of the new Towing Vessel National Center of Expertise (TVNCOE) in Paducah, Ky., one of the final pieces was …
It would be hard to find a military record more impressive than that of Mauro Mujica-Parodi III. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps after graduating from Georgetown …
By January of 2011, the parking lots at the 285-bed VA Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz. – the flagship of a Southern Arizona VA Health Care System that serves more …
When Alden Mills, a platoon commander with the U.S. Navy’s Sea, Air, and Land (SEAL) teams, left the Navy in 1998, he knew he wanted to go back to school …
For veterans, military retirees, and active-duty service members separating from service, applying for and receiving benefits can be an ordeal. In fact, it’s often difficult to merely keep aware of …
It began with better radar: Until the 1990s, the preferred method for drug smugglers in the Transit Zone – a 42-million-square-mile area comprising the maritime approaches to the United States …
It’s not always easy to find work after leaving the military. It may be even more difficult, after leaving a profession with such a clearly defined mission and purpose, to …
It’s been more than a year now, and a new board, created by the Department of Defense (DoD) to review the disputed disability claims of thousands of service members, has …
If you served in the military between Sept. 11, 2001, and Dec. 31, 2009, and were separated from service with a disability rating below 30 percent, it may be possible …
