VA Failing to Serve Women Warriors

By Kathy Groob | July 19, 2009

By Paul Rieckhoff for Huffington Post – Exec. Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America  If you blinked, you could’ve missed it. With the media’s obsession over Michael Jackson’s death and Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings plastered across cable news shows, an important story might have skipped your radar.
This week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative…

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Service Women’s Action Network: Working on Behalf of Women Veterans

By Kathy Groob | May 25, 2009 |

  By Brandy Bailey, Contributor ElectWomen Magazine Today almost 200,000 women serve in the United States military in Iraq or Afghanistan.  They are the second fastest growing population of veterans. Today’s servicewomen face trauma not just from combat, but also from sexual harassment and assault from their own peers on the battlefield.  The Pentagon recently…

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