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ALBANY, GA - Phoebe Putney hospital announced a new research project Wednesday to help Veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan get therapy more conveniently. They are using technology to help veterans battle the emotional wounds of combat.
The hospital says they are trying to better serve veterans with post traumatic stress disorder, allowing veterans to go to a local clinic and talk with their doctor, via teleconference.
A week before the Army put Fort Benning’s proposal to acquire more training land on hold, a group from Stewart County met with members of the Georgia Congressional delegation.
Adolph McLendon, mayor of Richland, said the group wanted to voice concerns about the Army acquiring 82,800 acres in the county that was preferred for expanding training land. Since the county was identified in a May draft environmental report, some residents have strongly opposed the plan because the county would lose $962,332 in tax revenue and generations of families would lose land.
ALBANY, GA. -- The first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps are being honored with the Congressional Gold Medal. It's the highest civilian award in the United States.
Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. joined a bipartisan majority in the U.S. House of Representatives voting in favor of the H.R. 2447 resolution.
Montford Point Marines are receiving the award for their service during World War II.
Robert L. Gordon III, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Military Community and Family Policy)
The nation’s first black Marines received a rare national tribute Tuesday as the House voted to award the Montford Point Marines with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress.
Facing a national budget deficit and growing opposition to the Army’s plan to acquire 82,800 acres of training land for Fort Benning, officials have put the proposal on hold five months after a draft environmental study selected Stewart County as the preferred alternative.
Military families have a lot of the same issues as anybody else – employment, education, health care – but their problems are compounded by the massive government bureaucracy that is the Department of Defense.
On Monday, a group of about 100 service members and dependents gathered at Fairchild Air Force Base to discuss how hard it is to raise a family in the military with a panel of officials who are in a position to do something about it.
Congressman Sanford Bishop honored the life and contributions of the late Raymond C. Singletary Jr. Sept. 22, 2011, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by reading a citation of memory into the Congressional Record.
“This is the highest honor the congressman could bestow on Mr. Singletary,” stated Jamie Crozier, Bishop’s Deputy Director and Agricultural Advisor.
He presented a plaque of the Congressional Record proceeding to Mr. Singletary’s nephew, Steve Singletary and daughter in-law Henrietta Singletary the following day in the office of Singletary Farms.
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense welcomed U.S. Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. of Georgia Sept. 13 for a briefing on the institute’s Quality Improvement Program.
ALBANY, GA -- The U.S. Postal Service plans to conduct a study at the Albany Customer Service Mail Processing Center to examine the feasibility of consolidating its operations into the Jacksonville and/or Tallahassee Processing and Distribution Facilities.