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UNITED States armed forces; UNITED States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs; UNITED States. Congress; ACCESSIBLE design of housing; VETERANS with disabilities; MILITARY weapons; DONNELLY, Thomas

The article presents an update on issues related to the U.S. armed forces as of January 2010. The Congress decided to allocate almost 2 billion dollars to assist the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in hiring new claims processors to address its claims backlog. Thomas Zampieri of Blinded Veterans of America stressed that disabled veterans are in need of additional funds to adapt their homes with wheelchair access and other modifications. An increase in weapons funding is being proposed by defense expert Thomas Donnelly.