Author: Michael

Pete Barnum can’t talk much these days. Surgery for squamous cell carcinoma—the kind linked to toxic exposure, the kind the PACT Act was written for—has left his speech severely impaired. But even when the VA calls to discuss his claim, they ask to speak with him.
His wife Keri answers anyway. She has been answering for months: scheduling appointments, tracking medications, escalating denials, spending ten or more hours some weeks on hold.

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I read Matthew Woessner’s piece “In Defense of War Colleges” in RealClearDefense with the same disappointment I feel watching senior leaders defend a broken system instead of fixing it.
As a Naval War College graduate, a 32-year combat veteran who rose from enlisted EOD tech to wing commander, and someone who’s seen the downstream effects of what these institutions are producing, let me be blunt:
The war colleges aren’t “remaining focused on educating military leaders to fight and win the nation’s wars.

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