The Medical Care Section's Committee on Veterans' Health needs a new chair who is involved with the Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) or the Pentagon's Surgeons General or (best of all) both.  Or would like to be.

I want to step down because I no longer am in "the loop" and can't really contribute to the cause as I did.  My own veterans organization, the American Veterans Committee (AVC) has dissolved.  We were almost entirely a WWII group and collectively we just wore out.  So, I am no longer connected to an AVC Veterans and Military Affairs Commission for information about what is happening.

Still, we know things are going on (and not going on), and that some of them badly need APHA's "influence."  In the last few weeks, for example, the president's budget for the VHA was revealed to be several billion dollars short of the need (Am I the only person who remembers when "Nothing is too good for our boys in uniform!" was every politician's battle cry?).  Then, we found that at some Army posts soldiers who were injured in training were being given a hard time.  And, there are still shortcomings in the healthcare provisions for women both in the service and as veterans.