IAVA in the News: Women in the Military

CBS: IAVA Highlights Challenges Facing Female Veterans

A segment on CBS Evening News focused on the challenges facing female veterans, including a rise in homelessness. The segment features IAVA Member Veteran Angela Peacock and highlights data from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America issue report, "Women Warriors: Supporting She 'Who Has Borne the Battle," which details the unique and urgent service and homecoming challenges facing female troops and veterans. IAVA Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff asserts a central factor that leads to homelessness may be untreated injuries, including PTSD.

Air America: Inadequate Health Care Among Many Challenges Facing Today’s Veterans

October 20

Air America’s Ana Marie Cox used the IAVA issue report “Women Warriors: Supporting ‘She Who Has Borne the Battle’” as a platform to put the needs of female troops front and center. As IAVA Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff tells Cox on her program “The Inside Story,” the issues affecting women servicemembers have long been overlooked and underreported by the media.

NPR's The Takeaway: Increased Sexual Assault in the Military

October 14

A segment on NPR's The Takeaway focused on the newest issue report by Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, "Women Warriors: Supporting She 'Who Has Borne the Battle.'" The report is a comprehensive overview of the unique and urgent service and homecoming challenges facing female troops and veterans. NPR delved into the report's data regarding sexual assaults — which increased nine percent last year — with the report's author and IAVA Deputy Policy Director for Research Erin Mulhall and Army Sgt. Cara Hammer, who served in Iraq and works as a Veteran Support Associate at IAVA.

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Web Site Helps Welcome Vets Home

September 1

The Philadelphia Inquirer recently profiled IAVA Member Veterans Bryan Adams and Marie Exley about their experiences transitioning home from Iraq and how IAVA's CommunityofVeterans.org, the first exclusive social network for OIF/OEF veterans, helped them find critical resources about VA health care, claims benefits and the Post-9/11 GI Bill. Click here to read the article.

Ed Schultz Show: VA Failing to Serve Women Veterans

July 17

On July 17th, IAVA Executive Director and Founder Paul Rieckhoff discussed the findings of a new groundbreaking GAO report showing the the VA is failing to serve our women veterans. Visit www.iava.org/womenveterans to read the GAO findings and text "REPORT" to 69866 to be the first to know when IAVA's own Issue Report on Women in the Military launches in August.

Wall Street Journal: Hello, My Name Is USER01

July 6

The Wall Street Journal spoke to IAVA Member Veteran Reynaldo Leal, Jr. for this article about IAVA's use of new social media, including the Ning-based social network CommunityofVeterans.org, to help Iraq and Afghanistan veterans reach out to one another during the transition home.

Boston Globe: More Female Veterans are Winding up Homeless

July 6

The Boston Globe recently spoke to IAVA Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff and IAVA Member Veteran Angela Peacock for this article addressing the alarming rise in homelessness among female veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

AP: Mom: Deployment Leaves No One to Care for Kids

March 2

The Associated Press spoke with IAVA Policy Associate Tom Tarantino for this article about how extended deployments and the lack of childcare resources leaves some military families with no one to care for their children.