Battlefield injuries are survivable, but it has left the system overtaxed and overburdened. Since 2001. Only 40 of veterans receive their full benefits entitled to at the v. A. With unemployment at its highest, marital discord, threatening social support, and other problems to read it and undetected, they are looking towards social Services Agencies like the red cross in providing help. So the Red Cross Services to the Armed Forces Provide services at every stage of a Service Members military life four, during, and after, so if we look military,vices after it consists of providing veterans with veterans claims for benefits as a vso as well to those who seek to appeal, and that is mostly through our andless outreach project case coordination. We have volunteers at v. A. Reintegration still building courses in the form of reconnection workshops. So our veteran claims have common characteristics. Support who to peer have been trained for the Veterans Service officers, and the red cross re
Assistance for rent, utilityities, and deposits. Assistance with lan lord landlord tenant issues and application and appeals process. They provide education, employment, and job search. Transportation assistance. Financial literacy and budgeting, and physical and Mental Health care refers federals. Referrals. Our West Virginia benefit Assistance Program began as a pilot serving 25 veterans. They provide outreach to veterans in the Community Using a peer model. These volunteer vets are certified as veteran Service Officers. They develop a trust realings relationship and educate veterans about what benefits they have to assist them. The program was so successful they tripled their funding base and expanded their services with the projection of serving four times the veterans they serve now. The veteran appeals support project is one area or one program that they are providing services to. The other is the veterans employment support project. And that is using mobile Technology Kits to v.
Into a series of franchises are more or less influenced by the inspirational ideology of al qaeda. But in the control of their local commanders. For example, you have one franchise in north africa, one in mali, one in the northern arabian peninsula. You have al qaeda in iraq. You have al qaeda in syria. Then of course, you have al qaeda sleeper cells that we have seen pop up in europe, australia, and god forgive in n god for bid in canada and United States. The residual legacy of bin laden still seems to be able to attract these young arabs who want to be a member of al qaeda, aattracted to what is essentially this death cult of al qaeda. We have not a great deal of success to turn that off. Host we have this map of the middle east that we want to put back up. Ambassador ginsberg, what kind of military presence does the United States have in this area . Guest if you go to iraq after the Islamic State was able to take the city of mosul, the second largest city of iraq and seize territor
Support for hezbollah or hamas, or the assad regime. Now being confronted by our strongest adversaries in the region that are being strengthened on the back of sunnis who are afraid of the shiite ascendancy. Host lets take some calls. We will begin with dennis in arkansas on our democrats line. Caller you know, they say that you cannot go to war with g5 unless god tells you to or you are not a muslim at all. That kind of eliminates an awful lot of these guys. Those tribes have been fighting for a long time centuries trying to get a leg up on the other guide. Isis is being run out of yemen and libya primarily. Firsthand knowledge from people who escape their is different from the political point of view. Are we going to be the police force for the entire world . Obama kind of said im going to get as out of the war, those are campaign promises. He is a man of his word. He also killed osama bin laden. You can say bush did it host there is a lot better. A lot of connections being made by d
Next week. What are some of the details of this bill and what does it tell you about the overall strategy of House Republicans on immigration . Right at the start of the week, this is a tough Border Security bill. The chairman is calling it the toughest Border Security bill that has been out there and this is the first foray republicans are trying to take on the immigration bill or issue. Republicans have been very displeased with president obama plus executive action from late less cheer when the president put together some proposals to defer deportation for up to 5 Million Immigrants here illegally in the country. Republicans want to respond to that and one way to do that is to start taking a look at their own ideas for immigration. First up is the border bill. It is a tough bill and requires completing the 700 mile fence along the border. It requires the Homeland Security to have operational control of the border, some of the hot spots where illegal crossings happen, they have to ha