The following advisory has been provided by Agent Hohan (FBI) with request
to disseminate to SFA Chapters, SFA Members, and throughout the SF Community and
Military. If you encounter this poser let him know his cover story is blown and
he is a fake. This email has been sent to all Chapter Presidents and posted in
the member forums. Widest possible dissemination is requested. A flyer is
attached that can be diseminated.
SUBJECT: Ronald Alan Bryant, White male, 6'2", DOB: June
9, 1966,
Florida DL B653-721-66-209-0 (Revoked) For more info, click HERE
The above subject is posing as a Command Sergeant Major from both 3rd
and 7th Special Forces groups. He has assumed the identity of an
active SGM with a similar name in 3rd Group. He travels
between the Los Angeles area and Fayetteville (Fort Bragg). The subject has
appeared around Ft. Stewart, Ft. Benning, Ft. Campbell, San Diego, Miramar Naval
Bases, Eglin, MacDill and Los Angeles Air Force Bases.
Study finds no link in Camp Lejeune tainted water case
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Published: Saturday, June 13, 2009 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 12, 2009 at 8:06 p.m.
It could be back to square one for those who have been dubbed America’s “poisoned patriots.”
Fifty years after the contaminated water first started flowing and
22 years after the last contaminated well at Camp Lejeune was finally
shut off, the search for answers for those who believe they were
poisoned by the very country they swore to protect might have just
gotten more difficult.
A report released this weekend by the
National Research Council, a branch of the National Academies, found
that “data gaps” and “methodological limitations” make it difficult to
determine that the tainted water caused health problems of former base
residents and their offspring.
Marine Corps hope to reach ex-Lejeune residents about tainted water
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Monday, April 20, 2009
The U.S. Marine Corps is trying new methods to reach Marines, civilians
and their families who lived at Camp Lejeune, N.C., over a 30-year
period when the drinking water was contaminated.
The service recently circulated fliers to bases around the world to be
posted in public places such as commissaries. For several years, the
Marine Corps has had an outreach program to contact as many people as
possible who might have been affected by the tainted water.
"We’ve started using different venues to reach different populations in
different areas," Corps spokeswoman Capt. Amy Malugani said.
The Marine Corps is trying to reach some 500,000 people who lived and
worked on the base November 1957 through February 1987, years in which
experts believed well water was contaminated. To date, nearly 130,000
are in the Notification Registry.
The Vietnam
Veterans of America was founded in 1978 and is the only national Vietnam
veteran’s organization congressionally chartered and exclusively dedicated to
Vietnam-era veterans and their families. In the spirit of our founding
principle, "Never again will one generation of veterans abandon
another," we are seeking your support to help bring a VeteranCenter
to the Wilmington
area.
The purpose
of the VetCenter is to care for military persons
and their families needing guidance or assistance after a traumatic tour of
duty. Possibly, they are having difficulty adjusting to life in a civilian
status. Many suffer psychiatric conditions that follow any traumatic,
catastrophic life experience. Recognition of this condition increases
dramatically when returning veterans develop disturbing psychological symptoms
and impaired personal functioning. This condition is known as PTSD.
Commentary: Fallen brothers found
- and lost By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy
Newspapers
As with so much in life and in death, there
was news this week that was joyous and sad and bittersweet all at once for the
small community of the Vietnam War’s band of brothers of the Ia Drang
Valley.
Early in the morning of December
28, 1965, a U.S. Army Huey helicopter, tail number 63-08808, lifted off from the
huge grassy airfield at the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) base at An Khe in
the Central Highlands of South
Vietnam.
Two experienced pilots, CWO Jesse
Phelps of Boise, Idaho, and CWO Kenneth Stancil of Chattanooga, Tenn., were at the controls. Behind them in
the doors were crew chief Donald Grella of Laurel, Neb., and door
gunner Thomas Rice Jr. of Spartanburg, S.C. All four were already veterans of the
fiercest air assault battle of the war, fought the previous month in the Ia
Drang.
Death on the Home Front: Women in the Crosshairs - another example of why we need a Vet Center
Tuesday 31 March 2009
by: Ann Jones | Visit article original @ TomDispatch.com
Wake up, America. The boys are coming home, and they're not the boys who went away.
On New Year's Day, the New York Times welcomed the advent of 2009 by reporting that, since returning from Iraq, nine members of the Fort Carson, Colorado, Fourth Brigade Combat team had been charged with homicide. Five of the murders they were responsible for took place in 2008 when, in addition, "charges of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault" at the base rose sharply. Some of the murder victims were chosen at random; four were fellow soldiers - all men. Three were wives or girlfriends.
This shouldn't be a surprise. Men sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for two, three, or four tours of duty return to wives who find them "changed" and children they barely know. Tens of thousands return to inadequate, underfunded veterans' services with appalling physical injuries, crippling post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suck-it-up sergeants who hold to the belief that no good soldier seeks help. That, by the way, is a mighty convenient belief for the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, which have been notoriously slow to offer much of that help.
Recently Republican Senator John Cornyn from Texas, a state with 15 major military bases, noted that as many as one in five U.S. veterans is expected to suffer from at least one "invisible wound" of war, if not a combination of them, "including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and mild traumatic brain injury." Left untreated, such wounds can
Airman Missing In Action From The Vietnam War Is Identified
The
Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced
today that the remains of a U.S. airman, missing in action from the
Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family
for burial with full military honors.
He is Lt. Col. Earl P. Hopper Jr., U.S. Air Force, of Phoenix, Ariz. He
is to be buried on April 3 at the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona
in Phoenix.
On Jan. 10, 1968, Hopper and Capt. Keith Hall were flying an F-4D
Phantom near Hanoi, North Vietnam, as part of a four-ship MiG combat
air patrol. Before they reached the target, an enemy surface-to-air
missile exploded slightly below their aircraft. Hall radioed that he
and Hopper were ejecting. He told Hopper to eject,
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