Wounded warriors
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- June
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Congress is moving toward overhauling programs for wounded combat veterans.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a bill on Thursday that would among other things:
—make service members with combat-related disabilities eligible for three years of care from military or veterans hospitals
—increase the minimum severance pay for service members too disabled to continue in uniform to at least one year of basic pay for those with combat-related injuries
—allow family members who help care for wounded service members at military hospitals to be eligible for military health care.
The House of Representatives passed its version of a wounded warrior bill in March.
The push for changes came after the Washington Post wrote about neglect some soldiers were facing at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
You can read more it in the Army Times.
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