Air National Guard

NEWS AND COMMENT – Volume 1, Issue 1: IT’S JUST ANOTHER MONTH AND MORE EXAMPLES OF NEGLIGENCE, GROSS INCOMPETENCE AND POOR MANAGEMENT, ALL COURTESY OF THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION – AMERICAN VETERANS ARE DESERVING OF SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS!

THE TRAGIC DEATH OF A MARINE VETERAN A young, 23 year old Marine (Hunter Chase Whitley) was having difficulties with PTSD from the war. This was legit, not like former Solicitor Dan Johnson of Columbia, South Carolina who stole $44,000 from the taxpayers, a portion of which was from the [ … Read More]

Department of Defense

MINORITY-OWNED AMERICAN COMPANY JUST WANTS TO BE TREATED FAIRLY – THEY PLAY BY THE RULES, PRODUCING HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTS AT THE LOWEST COST, YET THEY STILL DO NOT WIN GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS – WHEN IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE, FOLLOW THE MONEY!

Corruption in the American procurement process has probably been going on since George Washington was receiving provisions from King Louie to fight King George. Even then, there probably was a middleman syphoning off a percentage for himself or guiding procurement funds to a relative. Nothing has really changed since America’s [ … Read More]

Department of Defense

OSCAR RODRIGUEZ AND SHELIA JACKSON (THE DYNAMIC DUO) DRAMATICALLY TURNED THINGS AROUND AT THE VHA AND VBA IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA. TRUELY AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT POSITIVE AND STRONG LEADERSHIP CAN DO FOR ANY ORGANIZATION. THE IMPROVEMENT IS BREATHTAKING!

Seldom does MilitaryCorruption.com publish “feel-good” articles, but this fantastic story about failing VA facilities turned around by new, courageous leaders cried out for attention. We had to momentarily set aside our zeal for exposing corruption to tell this remarkable story of success and achievement. Using an aviation metaphor, the VHA [ … Read More]

Veterans

VA EMPLOYEES ARE HORNSWOGGLED OUT OF COVID BONUS MONEY SO SENIOR VA EXECUTIVES COULD BUY NEW STUFF FOR THEMSELVES. THEN IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, ANOTHER MONEY GAME IS BEING PLAYED TO THE DETRIMENT OF THE VETERANS.

It may take awhile, but sometimes, the truth actually surfaces for all the world to see! Please don’t be confused, we are going to address money issues involving two different VA medical centers… DORN VAMC in Columbia, SC and the NORWOOD VAMC in Augusta, Georgia. Actually, the COVID bonus-bucks scandal [ … Read More]

Veterans

A MINOR DISPUTE OVER PARKING POLICY EVOLVED INTO A FULL-BLOWN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION – WHEN IS THE DORN MEDICAL CENTER GOING TO STOP THEIR SNEAKY SKULLDUGGERY AND CONCENTRATE ON HELPING VETERANS?

Problems continue to persist at the Dorn VA Medical Center (DVAMC) in Columbia, South Carolina. The DVAMC is a chronic cluster (you know what). Today we received communication from a confidential source saying that veterans advocate Mr. Graham was being set up by the Dorn Police Department. Our source suspected [ … Read More]

Veterans

NOW HEAR THIS, NOW HEAR THIS! – A GENERAL WARNING ISSUED TO ALL VETERANS USING THE DORN VA MEDICAL CENTER IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA – A REAL AND PRESENT DANGER MAY EXIST FOR VETERANS SEEKING MEDICAL CARE – THIS IS NOT A DRILL, WE REPEAT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL.

UPDATE: 03JAN2024 Since writing this article, we have received more information. Dr. Joann M. Lohr has been reinstated, suspended, and then AGAIN reinstated. Dr. Lohr is a professional trainwreck. Why in the world the VA continues their association with her is beyond anyone’s understanding. Due to her extraordinary incompetency and [ … Read More]

Veterans

JOHN F. MERKLE IS SCHEDULED TO BECOME THE NEXT DIRECTOR OF THE DORN VA MEDICAL CENTER, BUT ARE WE GOING FROM BAD TO WORSE? ACCORDING TO ONE OF OUR SOURCES, MERKLE’S PERFORMANCE AT HIS LAST JOB WAS DUBIOUS AT BEST. OMURA AND MERKLE MAY BE JUST TWO PEAS IN A POD. ONLY TIME WILL TELL!

According to the VA’s own website, The Veterans Health Administration provides care at 1298 healthcare facilities, including 171 medical centers and 1,113 outpatient sites all serving nine million enrolled Veterans each year. The United States is principally divided into eighteen (18) Veterans Integrated Service Networks, or VISNs — regional systems [ … Read More]

Veterans

NEWS FLASH: DIRECTOR DAVID OMURA OF THE DORN VA MEDICAL CENTER COULD BE IN VERY BIG TROUBLE – OMURA WAS “RELOCATED” FROM THE MEDICAL CENTER BUILDING ON 12 JUN 2023 ALLEGEDLY FOR MISAPPROPRIATION OF VA FUNDS.

UPDATED: JUNE 24, 2023 (with new email from the mailbag): Right now, MC.com is trying to gather information concerning Director David Omura of the Dorn VA Medical Center in Columbia, South Carolina. We received information that Director David Omura was escorted out of the Dorn VA Medical Center allegedly for [ … Read More]

United States Air Force

MAJOR CLARENCE ANDERSON FILES MASSIVE FEDERAL LAWSUIT AGAINST THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE. THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT MAJOR ANDERSON WAS RAILROADED INTO PRISON. ALL HE WANTS IS A FAIR JUDICIAL PROCESS. WE WANT ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THOSE WHO CONSPIRED TO WRONGFULLY IMPRISON THIS OUTSTANDING AIR FORCE OFFICER.

Air Force Major Clarence Anderson III has filed another lawsuit against the Secretary of the Air Force, and other senior officials for his wrongful conviction in 2015. Amazingly, Maj. Anderson has yet to receive a DD-214 from the military for his tenure as an officer. It’s one of the ways [ … Read More]

United States Army

ARMY LTC JACOB SWEATLAND MAY HAVE A FETISH FOR WATCHING LITTLE GIRLS GET UNDRESSED. ACCUSED OF PLANTING CAMERAS IN RETAIL STORE DRESSING ROOMS TO WATCH TEENAGERS STRIP DOWN TO THEIR UNDIES (OR WORSE).

Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Sweatland who heads up the ROTC department at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California was charged with resisting arrest, invasion of privacy by recording in a dressing room and two counts of filming a person in full or partial undress. We don’t have all [ … Read More]

United States Congress

DIRECTOR DAVID “SGT. SHULTZ” OMURA SCREWS IT UP AGAIN – DORN VA MEDICAL CENTER ORCHESTRATES A DEVIOUS PLAN TO ATTACK ONE OF THEIR OWN DOCTORS – SOMEONE FORGED THE DOCTOR’S SIGNATURE ON RETIREMENT PAPERS – THERE NEEDS TO BE A COMPLETE HOUSE CLEANING AT THE VA!

UPDATE (08JUN2023): We were notified that Director David Omura was suddenly “detailed” to the “Office of Integrated Veterans Care (IVC),” whatever the hell that is? Ms. Annette Wyatt, RN, will serve as acting director of the Dorn VA Medical Center at Columbia, SC until Mr. John Merkle takes over as [ … Read More]

Veterans

VA BUREAUCRAT WOODY MIDDLETON STOPS PROGRAM THAT COULD HAVE BENEFITED THOUSANDS OF DEPENDENTS OF DECEASED VETERANS – WOODY’S NARROWMINDED BRAND OF LEADERSHIP IS SIMPLY OUTRAGEOUS, AND THE INDIFFERENCE OF LEADERS ABOVE HIM IS SAD INDEED.

All it took was a single VA bureaucrat to put the kibosh on what could have been a tremendous and positive program for the widows and widowers of America’s deceased veterans. The proposed program potentially was a WIN, WIN, WIN situation, but the VA discarded it and we still do [ … Read More]

Veterans Administration

THE STRUGGLE FOR HELP FROM THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION FOR NAVY VETERAN STEVEN J. WILLIAMS CONTINUES RIGHT DOWN TOWARDS THE END OF HIS LIFE. TRULY AN OUTRAGEOUS STORY.

UPDATE: Steven J. Williams died on July 1, 2022. (June 24, 1944 to July 1, 2022; 78 years of age) Attempts to raise the disability rating for Mr. Williams with the Veterans Administration from 60% to 100% failed. Years and years of claims and other paperwork were ignored by the [ … Read More]

Veterans Administration

FOR SOME UNEXPLAINED REASON, THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION DECIDES TO SEND A LETTER (AND PAMPHLET) TO EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN VETERAN THREATENING SWIFT ACTION IF THEY VIOLATE THE LAW

Recently, the United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs sent out approximately nineteen million letters and pamphlets to all of America’s Veterans all over the world. The mailing cost for such a mailout may have been in the neighborhood of five million dollars. ($5,000,000). Here is the letter all of us [ … Read More]

Veterans

THERE NEEDS TO BE A COMPLETE HOUSECLEANING – VA MEDICAL CENTER POLICE ATTEMPT TO COVERUP AN ASSAULT – WE CALL FOR THE RESIGNATION OF DIRECTOR DAVID OMURA WHO IS ALLEGEDLY IN CHARGE OF THE COLUMBIA, SC, VA MEDICAL CENTER

In keeping with our policy of helping those without a voice we present the case of Jose Marrero. A hardworking guy who was apparently screwed pretty badly by the Veterans Administration. Our investigators received Jose’s side of the story, but have had difficulty obtaining information from others involved. Normally, we [ … Read More]

Veterans

WE PAY OUR RESPECTS TO ALFRED PROCOPIO JR. AND HIS FIGHT FOR VA BENEFITS. THE VA IMPLEMENTED THEIR FALL-BACK POLICY OF “DELAY AND DENY, UNTIL THEY ALL DIE,” TO AVOID THE COST OF HELPING SICK NAVY VETERANS EXPOSED TO AGENT ORANGE.

Right away, some of our younger readers are turned off. They would rather not bother themselves with the horrors of past wars. America’s wars are now in the dustbin of history, out of the collective consciousness. Failure to learn from history is partly supported by a naïve belief, capsulized in [ … Read More]

United States Congress

DENTAL POLICY AT THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION IS A COMPLETE FRAUD – THEY SAY THEY’RE CONCERNED ABOUT VETERANS HEALTH, THEN DENY LIFE SAVING MEASURES BY FAILING TO ADDRESS SERIOUS DENTAL PROBLEMS THREATENING OVERALL HEALTH – WTF?

The Veterans Administration admittedly has a very difficult job. Sometimes they are caught up in policy fights that occasionally end up with the Veterans of the United States on the losing end. The Agent Orange fiasco is a classic example. For years after the Vietnam War, the government ignored the [ … Read More]

United States Army

THE MASSIVE CORRUPTION OF INYO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA HAS DETRIMENTALLY AFFECTED 5000+ MILITARY VETERANS. SHERIFF JEFFERY HOLLOWELL EMBEZZLES MONEY FROM THE VSO PROGRAM FOR FIFTEEN YEARS – ABSCONDED MONEY COULD AMOUNT TO WELL OVER $100,000

Are you a senior citizen who also happens to be a veteran? Are you thinking about moving to a less expensive area to make your social security check, and perhaps a VA disability check go further than it does now? The last place you want to move to is Inyo [ … Read More]

Veterans

DORN VA MEDICAL CENTER ONCE AGAIN IN THE NEWS – NEVER HAVE WE RECEIVED SO MUCH MAIL FROM UPSET VA EMPLOYEES. EITHER DIRECTOR OMURA IS A TERRIBLE ADMINISTRATOR, OR HE’S IN WAY OVER HIS HEAD AND CANNOT HANDLE THE JOB

One individual, fed up with the drama and general malaise occurring at the DORN VA Medical Center and some of the Community Based Outpatient Clinics (under DORN management), decided to sit down and write us a letter about what he/she has been witnessing. If even 20% of what this person [ … Read More]

Veterans

NURSES, AT A HIGHER RISK FOR CONTRACTING COVID-19, ARE BEING DETAILED AGAINST THEIR WILL INTO CLINICAL SETTINGS OF THE DORN VA MEDICAL CENTER WITH LITTLE OR NO TRAINING. WHAT’S THE MESSAGE HERE… RETIRE OR DIE?

The DORN VA Medical Center in Columbia, South Carolina is, once again, back in the news. Under the guiding hand of Commandant David “Schultz” Omura, morale in the senior nursing corps has gone from bad to worse. In some cases, it’s in the toilet. People are reporting to MC.com that [ … Read More]