Father says soldier son was forgotten
Perry demands better tracking of wounded Guardsmen
Updated: Thursday, 17 Mar 2011, 7:45 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 17 Mar 2011, 3:22 PM CDT
Erin Cargile
AUSTIN (KXAN) - A Hays County father said the Texas Army National Guard needs to do a better job of tracking wounded warriors.
KXAN Austin News has been following 1st Lt. David Inbody's road to recovery since he was injured in Afghanistan in July 2010. He lost his right foot when his convoy hit a roadside bomb. He was flown to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C., for surgery before being transferred to Brook Army Medical Center in San Antonio where he was fitted with a prosthetic foot.
During David's stay at Walter Reed, his father immediately picked up on a few things.
"Things that the Army was doing for it's regular personnel weren't happening for the guardsmen," said Don Inbody.
For example, Don noticed a commander of an Airborne unit putting displaying special patches on an injured soldiers hospital room door. He mentioned it to two Texas National Guard General's when they came by to visit.
"They both assured me they would get that sorted out in a hurry -- never happened," said Don. "My thinking is if you can't do the little things, what's going on with the big things?"
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Father says soldier son was forgotten
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Showing posts with label Texas National Guard. Show all posts
Friday, March 18, 2011
Are wounded National Guardsmen being treated differently?
1st Lt. David Inbody's Dad says they are. We send them to go to war just like regular military members but National Guards/Reservists, the citizen soldiers end up being treated differently back home. They end up being deployed, taken away from their regular jobs and families and then they come home expected to just adapt back, picking up where they left. Now we are made aware of the conditions they face when they are wounded and in military hospitals.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Texas National Guard sees a spike in suicides
Texas National Guard sees a spike in suicides
Grim statistic: More took their own lives than died in combat
By LINDSAY WISE
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Feb. 8, 2011, 9:50PM
A spike in the number of Texas National Guard soldiers who took their own lives last year has resulted in a sobering statistic: More members of the Texas Guard have been lost to suicide than to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A total of 12 Texas Army National Guard troops have been killed in action since 2001. During that same time period, 18 killed themselves, according to Texas Army National Guard headquarters at Camp Mabry in Austin.
That grim tally includes seven suicides in 2010, a jump from just one, two or none in previous years.
Senior Texas Guard officials said they're distraught by the sharp increase.
"We can only hope that it's a temporary thing, and we are certainly concerned about it, and we're looking at how can we change that," said Chaplain Lt. Col. Stephen Vaughn, operations chaplain for Texas Army National Guard.
"Losing a soldier in combat is horrible, but losing a comrade here in the States is unacceptable," said Col. Orlando Salinas, director of Joint Family Support Services for Texas Military Forces. "We take that very personally, and we want to do all we can to help all our service members and their families."
The statistics in Texas reflect a nationwide trend in the Army, which recently reported that suicides among National Guard and Reserve forces jumped significantly last year from 80 deaths in 2009 to 145 deaths in 2010, even as the number of active-duty soldiers who took their own lives went down slightly, from 162 in 2009 to 156 in 2010.
"It's emblematic of a string of broken systems, and in the National Guard and Reserve, some of the support structures you have on the active-duty side, you just don't get," said Tom Tarantino, senior legislative associate for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington .
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Texas National Guard sees a spike in suicides
Grim statistic: More took their own lives than died in combat
By LINDSAY WISE
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Feb. 8, 2011, 9:50PM
A spike in the number of Texas National Guard soldiers who took their own lives last year has resulted in a sobering statistic: More members of the Texas Guard have been lost to suicide than to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A total of 12 Texas Army National Guard troops have been killed in action since 2001. During that same time period, 18 killed themselves, according to Texas Army National Guard headquarters at Camp Mabry in Austin.
That grim tally includes seven suicides in 2010, a jump from just one, two or none in previous years.
Senior Texas Guard officials said they're distraught by the sharp increase.
"We can only hope that it's a temporary thing, and we are certainly concerned about it, and we're looking at how can we change that," said Chaplain Lt. Col. Stephen Vaughn, operations chaplain for Texas Army National Guard.
"Losing a soldier in combat is horrible, but losing a comrade here in the States is unacceptable," said Col. Orlando Salinas, director of Joint Family Support Services for Texas Military Forces. "We take that very personally, and we want to do all we can to help all our service members and their families."
The statistics in Texas reflect a nationwide trend in the Army, which recently reported that suicides among National Guard and Reserve forces jumped significantly last year from 80 deaths in 2009 to 145 deaths in 2010, even as the number of active-duty soldiers who took their own lives went down slightly, from 162 in 2009 to 156 in 2010.
"It's emblematic of a string of broken systems, and in the National Guard and Reserve, some of the support structures you have on the active-duty side, you just don't get," said Tom Tarantino, senior legislative associate for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington .
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Texas National Guard sees a spike in suicides
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Texas National Guard soldier's home taken by HOA while he was deployed
Soldier Loses Home While Deployed
June 26, 2010
The Dallas Morning News
A Soldier serving in Iraq lost his Frisco home to foreclosure over late homeowners association dues, renewing a debate over the power of HOAs in Texas.
The case, which has boiled over to involve federal judge, a publicist and death threats, began when Michael and May Clauer lost their $315,000 home to foreclosure in May 2008 after falling behind on their association dues.
The Heritage Lakes Homeowners Association was initially owed $977.55 and sent multiple notices by certified mail demanding payment. All went unanswered, said David Margulies, spokesman for the association and its management company, Select Management.
The problem, according to a lawyer for the Clauers, was that Michael Clauer -- U.S. Army National Guard Capt. Michael Clauer -- was deployed to Iraq.
His wife, suffering from depression over her husband's absence, had let mail pile up and didn't open any of the certified letters. May Clauer and her parents owned the house mortgage-free.
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Soldier Loses Home While Deployed
June 26, 2010
The Dallas Morning News
A Soldier serving in Iraq lost his Frisco home to foreclosure over late homeowners association dues, renewing a debate over the power of HOAs in Texas.
The case, which has boiled over to involve federal judge, a publicist and death threats, began when Michael and May Clauer lost their $315,000 home to foreclosure in May 2008 after falling behind on their association dues.
The Heritage Lakes Homeowners Association was initially owed $977.55 and sent multiple notices by certified mail demanding payment. All went unanswered, said David Margulies, spokesman for the association and its management company, Select Management.
The problem, according to a lawyer for the Clauers, was that Michael Clauer -- U.S. Army National Guard Capt. Michael Clauer -- was deployed to Iraq.
His wife, suffering from depression over her husband's absence, had let mail pile up and didn't open any of the certified letters. May Clauer and her parents owned the house mortgage-free.
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Soldier Loses Home While Deployed
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
One of Army's newest officers killed in Texas A and M Blackhawk crash
Texas A&M Black Hawk crash kills 1, injures 4
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 15:26:21 EST
One month after receiving his commission, 2nd Lt. Zachary Cook, one of the Army’s newest officers, was killed on the same campus where he received his degree.
Cook, 22, of Lufkin, Texas, was in the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed Monday in a field on the campus of Texas A&M University. Cook, who was planning to be a pilot, received his commission Dec. 12.
Four other soldiers, all members of the air crew and the Texas National Guard, were injured.
The four Guard soldiers, a chief warrant officer 2, a first lieutenant and two sergeants, are assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 108th Aviation Regiment, said Col. Bill Meehan, a spokesman for the Texas Guard.
The company, based in Austin, belongs to the Guard’s 36th Combat Aviation Brigade.
The helicopter crashed at about 3:30 p.m. near the Corps of Cadets field on the school’s College Station campus, 100 miles northwest of Houston, according to the Associated Press.
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By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 13, 2009 15:26:21 EST
One month after receiving his commission, 2nd Lt. Zachary Cook, one of the Army’s newest officers, was killed on the same campus where he received his degree.
Cook, 22, of Lufkin, Texas, was in the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter that crashed Monday in a field on the campus of Texas A&M University. Cook, who was planning to be a pilot, received his commission Dec. 12.
Four other soldiers, all members of the air crew and the Texas National Guard, were injured.
The four Guard soldiers, a chief warrant officer 2, a first lieutenant and two sergeants, are assigned to C Company, 1st Battalion, 108th Aviation Regiment, said Col. Bill Meehan, a spokesman for the Texas Guard.
The company, based in Austin, belongs to the Guard’s 36th Combat Aviation Brigade.
The helicopter crashed at about 3:30 p.m. near the Corps of Cadets field on the school’s College Station campus, 100 miles northwest of Houston, according to the Associated Press.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Troops Teaching Afghan farmers modern techniques
Teaching Afghan farmers modern techniques
GHAZNI, Afghanistan
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Oct 26, 2008 15:49:29 EDT
The $172,000, 53-acre Jungal Bagh demonstration farm north of town is a refreshingly green patch of land that soon will become a centerpiece of an effort to bring local farmers out of the dark ages.
The farm will have a power generation system, cool storage capability, a greenhouse, a cistern, an orchard, row crops and beehives, giving local farmers a place to learn new, more efficient and productive techniques. The Texas National Guard’s Agribusiness Development Team is developing the project.
“We want to transfer technology and techniques to the local farmers,” said Maj. Conan Martin, the agribusiness team chief, who has a background in biology, chemistry and pharmaceuticals.
That will enable farmers, who make up at least 70 percent of the population, to move from subsistence farming to productive farming, Martin said.
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http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/10/army_afghan_demofarm_102608w/
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