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Parallel Lines Never Meet: Why The Military Disability Retirement And Veterans Affairs Department Claim Adjudication Systems Are A Failure, Thomas Reed
Thomas J Reed
Service members who are injured or come down with a disease while on active duty have two roads to seek compensation for disability benefits that are part of the enlistment contract. The first road is military disability retirement, administered by the armed services. The second road is VA compensation administered by the cabinet-level Department of Veterans Affairs. Both systems are near collapse due to a backlog of undecided claims and manifest injustices in awarding benefits to disabled veterans and dependents.
Professor Reed proposes a radical reform of the dual compensation system by combining military disability retirement and VA benefits into …
Inside Guantanamo, Peter J. Honigsberg
Inside Guantanamo, Peter J. Honigsberg
Peter J Honigsberg
In May 2007 I visited Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. What I saw and experienced then are fading away and will soon disappear, now that two-thirds of the nearly 800 detainees have been released and President Obama will close the detention centers within the year. Consequently, this essay provides a historical account of one person's media visit to Guantanamo, when it was a fully-operational prison violating human rights, due process and international law.
The essay describes not only the visit but also the application process -- a bizarre experience. The military's application concluded with two quotes from the New Testament and included …