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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (480423)	10/23/2003 12:04:33 PM
From: jackhach	Respond to of 769670

First Sgt. Gerry Mosley is an Army Reserve soldier who was wounded in Iraq. What follow are excerpts from a letter from First Sgt. Gerry Mosley, an Army Reserve soldier wounded in Iraq, to Art Wu, a House Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs staffer, concerning the living conditions and medical care at Ft. Stewart, Ga. 15 October 2003 TO: Art Wu FM: 1SG Gerry Mosley SUBJECT: Report on Medical Evaluation Board Process at Ft Stewart I mobilized as a Reservist (U S Army Reserves) on 16 January 2003 to report to Ft Stewart GA. My Company departed the US on 20 February arriving in Kuwait on 21 February. I crossed into Iraq on 19 March and was attached with 3 FSB and 2/7 of the Third Infantry Division.. I received injuries to my back, both shoulders, and both knees on the 23 March when I had to jump off the 5 ton truck I was working on when we started receiving mortar attacks. There was only field medics available who said they "thought" I had sprains. The second re-injure was on 02 April when I jumped into my foxhole due to incoming SCUD missile. I developed vertigo after the second set of injuries. While in Kuwait on 29 April I had a vertigo attack and fell down some stairs. I was air evac'd from Iraq due to my injuries and arrived at Ft Stewart on 20 May. I was taken to Winn Army Community Hospital and completed my paperwork for evaluations. I was seen in Internal Medicine and with the paperwork showing bi-lateral shoulder, bi-lateral knee, and back pain. I received a consult with Orthopedics on my Right shoulder only. I was scheduled for x-ray and when the x-ray was dictated the Orth Physician ordered an MRI (since I had previous surgery on that shoulder) and the MRI came back partial tear to the rotator cuff. The physician and I discussed all of my injuries and a decision was made for the MEB. I had a hearing loss prior to mobilizing and reported an increase in my hearing loss along with vertigo and tinnitus (ringing in both ears). Below is a calendar of each injury: (Editor's note: these details have been omitted to respect medical privacy.) I attempted to schedule a follow-up appointment with Ortho for back pain using the online sytem at Winn Army Hospital but with my SSN I received a web page message stating "RESERVIST/MOBILIZATION have no available appointments. As a Reservist, assigned to the Holding Battalion, we can not go to regular sick-call and have no Primary Care Providers. We have to go to a special sick call and are often told we will have to come back or will not be seen. The Battalion Commander has told us, in formation, that he talks with the IG everyday and they know what is going on, and, that when we call, write, or email a Senator or Congressman, they call him and he tells them the truth and it just makes the complaining soldier look bad. As a Reservist, we deserve the same level of care a person of Active Component receives. We deserve to be seen more promptly, and treated with equal respect. Reservist are living in sub-standard housing (open-bay barracks without air conditioning) where the AC has nice barracks with accomodations. I have had a Physician tell me that they are instructed to "get us in and out with the least possible problems found" and he refused to extend his 90 day service because he said he "Just can't practice medicine the way the Army wanted him to." To this date I still do not know what will be done to correct my medical shortcomings . We have been told numerous times to accept what is offered because when we get home the VA will take care of us. It is now to the point that we are told if we want to go home we can sign a waiver releasing claim to medical care and will be released from active duty and returned home. Some of the soldiers have elected to do this. I have served this country for 30 ½ years (3 active and 27 ½ reserves) and never thought I would see the Army "take care of their own" like they are doing. I feel so strongly against the military service now that if they start the draft and it appears my son would be drafted I would pack my family up and learn to live in Canada or elsewhere. The price of freedom has been paid for by Reservist as well as Active Duty soldiers and is still being paid for by both. If you need further info please call me. If you need supporting documentation let me know and I can fax it to you. Thanks, Gerry Mosley, 1SG

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (480423)	10/23/2003 12:17:55 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 769670

NEWS: GOVERNMENT REVISES LAST WEEK CLAIMS UP 6,000 to 390,000! Last weeks again were revised UPWARDS by 6000 (see link below). The week before that they were revised UPWARDS by 10,000. This government is a fraud. They are cooking the books. Every week they revise UPWARD the numbers of the previous weeks that supposedly were better than expected. It's a complete fraud, it spits at the face of the jobless and makes a mockery of the unemployed. On top of that, the problem is that the first-time claims need to drop to about 120,000 from 390,000 to actually say that you are making a dent on the jobless. biz.yahoo.com