Eric Shinseki: “we do not want to be sending people down to Seattle, which is a 3- to 5-hour ride in a plane, for care that can be…”

I assure them that at VA our experience is when we diagnose and treat whatever the issue is, but even PTS or PTSD, that people improve and that they should not let that be a barrier to them making a hiring decision.

In this year's budget, if we were to look back to 2009 and come forward through our budgets, women veterans' programs have been increased by 134 percent.

As President Obama said veterans have done their duty and they ask nothing more than this country, does ours, that we uphold our sacred trust to all who have served, and we will.

We continually seek innovative ways to further improve our ability to design and construct state-of-the-art facilities for Veterans and their families.