Help wanted at day of beauty for Marine wives - Dana Point 5th Marine Regiment Support Group seeks donated gowns and hair and makeup assistance Oct. 2. If you do hair or makeup or have a gown you can donate, the Dana Point 5th Marine Regiment Support Group wants you to join it and family readiness officers of Camp Pendleton's 5th Marine Regiment to help with the "Elegance Exchanged Extrava-Gown-za" event for Marine wives and girlfriends. Wanted are formal long gowns especially for women ages 20-35 in all sizes. If you volunteer, you'll be helping to serve refreshments, help the women select dresses and get their hair and makeup done and generally pamper them in advance of the Marine Corps anniversary ball Nov. 10 at the Laguna Cliffs Resort & Spa. Nurses Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan struggle with PTSD - Navy Cmdr. Kim LeBel had not worked as a clinical nurse for many years, but in 2009, she was assigned to mentor the chief nurse at a hospital on a guarded base in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan. In photos of her with local nurses, she is beaming with satisfaction in her new role. But when she and three colleagues were jogging around the base one day, an Afghan guard inexplicably fired on them. LeBel was hit in the arm, and dropped to the ground. As LeBel played dead, she heard the guard walk over to her colleague and fire more bullets, killing her. The guard eventually shot himself. LeBel survived, but her deployment ended that day. After returning to the U.S., she became irritable, hyper-vigilant, sleepless and sad, and would be diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Although most nurses are not directly in harm's way, they are at risk for PTSD because of the exposure to trauma, loss, ethical dilemmas and fatigue. Two WW II fighter pilots found - The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of two servicemen, missing in action from World War II, have been identified and are being returned to their families for burial with full military honors. Navy Lt. Francis B. McIntyre of Mitchell, S.D., will be buried on Sept. 29, and Aviation Radioman Second Class William L. Russell of Cherokee, Okla., will be buried on Oct. 1. Both men will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. On Nov. 10, 1943, the two men took off on a bombing and strafing mission in their SBD-5 Dauntless dive bomber from Munda Field, New Georgia, in the Solomon Islands.A board of review declared both men unrecoverable. In 2007, a Papuan national found the World War II crash site near the Buka airport, which was reported to U.S. officials.Today, more than 72,000 Americans remain unaccounted-for from the conflict. Bob Woodward and All the President's Men - Once a serious journalist, theWashington Post'sBob Woodward now makes a very fine living as chief gossip-monger of the governing class. Early on in his career, along with Carl Bernstein, his partner at the time, Woodward confronted power. Today, by relentlessly exalting Washington trivia, he flatters power. His reporting does not inform. It titillates. A new Woodward book, "Obama's Wars", is a guaranteed blockbuster. It's out this week, already causing a stir, and guaranteed to be forgotten the week after dropping off the bestseller lists. For good reason:when it comes to substance, any book written by Woodward has about as much heft as the latest potboiler penned by the likes of James Patterson or Tom Clancy. Women suffer from more conditions than men, study finds - Little research has focused on the medical care needs of those returning from Iraq and Afghanistahn, according to Dr. Susan Frayne, from the VA Palo Alto Health Care System and Stanford University. Their research highlights that veterans suffering from PTSD also suffer more medical illnesses than do those with no mental health condition. This effect is even more pronounced in women than in men. The findings, published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, suggest that medical treatments may need to be closely integrated with mental health services for this special population just returning from military service. The authors analyzed data for over 90,000 men and women who use Veterans Health Administration (VHA) services. The majority of both men and women had a diagnosed mental health condition.
