{"id":29040,"date":"2012-03-08T10:10:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29040"},"modified":"2012-03-08T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T14:30:50","slug":"tester-asks-panetta-to-improve-database-for-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29040","title":{"rendered":"Tester asks Panetta to improve database for awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our buddy, Doug Sterner who has been applying pressure to Congress for an improvement to their online presence of military awards sends us a link to an Army Times<\/a> article which reports that Jon Tester (D-MT) has written a letter to the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta asking for a publicly accessible database of all military awardees in order to more easily identify fakes and to make it easier for actual awardees to have better and quicker access to VA facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen questions about the validity of an individual\u2019s claims or awards documentation are raised, the United States military should be able to expediently verify the details of that individual\u2019s military service, and any service honors earned or awarded to that service member,\u201d Tester wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems to me that it would be easier and less time consuming if they started doing it today and then worked backwards, instead of coming up with excuses as to why the DoD can’t do it. Just like their database of POWs. <\/p>\n

Doug seems to think we move the entire Veterans Affairs Committee<\/a> behind this. Members of the committee are;<\/p>\n

Patty Murray, WA<\/a><\/p>\n

John D. Rockefeller, WV<\/a><\/p>\n

Daniel Akaka, HI<\/a><\/p>\n

Sherrod Brown, OH<\/a><\/p>\n

Jim Webb, VA<\/a><\/p>\n

Jon Tester, MT<\/a><\/p>\n

Mark Begich, AK<\/a><\/p>\n

Bernie Sanders, VT<\/a><\/p>\n

Richard Burr, NC<\/a><\/p>\n

Johnny Isakson, GA<\/a><\/p>\n

Roger Wicker, MS<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike Johanns, NE<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott Brown, MA<\/a><\/p>\n

Jerry Moran, KS<\/a><\/p>\n

John Boozman, AR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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