Subject: [big campaign] Re: FW: Former Medical Ops Chief response to McCain ad
From: Brandon Friedman <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:10:20 -0700 (PDT)
List-Id: <bigcampaign.googlegroups.com>

Here's the link:
 
http://www.votevets.org/news?id=0159

Brandon Friedman
http://www.VoteVets.org
http://www.VetVoice.com

--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Brandon Friedman <[email-masked]> wrote:

From: Brandon Friedman <[email-masked]>
Subject: [big campaign] Re: FW: Former Medical Ops Chief response to McCain ad
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "Ilan Goldenberg" <[email-masked]>
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 2:33 PM

Thanks, Ilan.  We'll have a link up on the website shortly. . . .

Brandon Friedman
http://www.VoteVets.org
http://www.VetVoice.com

--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Ilan Goldenberg <[email-masked]> wrote:

From: Ilan Goldenberg <[email-masked]>
Subject: [big campaign] FW: Former Medical Ops Chief response to McCain ad
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 2:22 PM

FYI.   Some incredible work from our friends at Vote Vets

From: Eric Schmeltzer [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 3:05 PM
To: Moira Whelan; 'Tara McGuinness'; 'Trevor Fitzgibbon'; [email-masked]; 'Bob Creamer'; 'Brad Woodhouse'; 'Jon Soltz'; Ilan Goldenberg
Subject: Former Medical Ops Chief response to McCain ad
 
Pass it on

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 28, 2008
CONTACT: Eric Schmeltzer, [email-masked], 646-209-8586
FORMER CHIEF OF MEDICAL OPERATIONS FOR HQ USAFE AT 
RAMSTEIN AIR FORCE BASE RESPONDS TO LATEST MCCAIN AD 
WASHINGTON - The former Chief of Medical Operations for United States Air Force in Europe (USAFE) Headquarters at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany today ripped into Senator John McCain's latest ad, which attacks Senator Barack Obama for not making a campaign event of a visit to wounded troops.  
Dr. Katherine Scheirman, who was Chief of Medical Operations during Operation Iraqi Freedom, said in a statement:

"John McCain's new ad is dishonest and shameful, and I say that as the former Chief of Medical Operations.  Senators Hagel and Reed confirmed to Bob Schieffer yesterday that Senator Obama visited the Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad as a part of their CODEL, with no media present.  
"In Germany, Senator Obama made the right decision to respect wounded troops, and the doctors and nurses doing crucial and time-sensitive work, by not making a visit that was characterized as a campaign event by the Pentagon.  Senator Obama should be thanked for putting our military above politics.  And, I would hope that John McCain would think in those same terms, the next time he is put in a similar situation. 
"Senator Obama has voted for the troops when John McCain has not, most recently on the new GI Bill.  I am happy that Senator Obama puts the welfare of our troops above politics." 
Dr. Katherine Scheirman, MD, MHA, CPE, FACPE, is a Senior Advisor to VoteVets.org, and has twenty years experience in the Department of Defense medical system. She retired from the Air Force in 2006 with the rank of Colonel. During her time in the military, she was assigned to a number of duties where she saw 'first hand' the shortcomings of the DOD medical system and its effect on troops. Most recently, she was at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, which saw the majority of those injured during the war in Iraq.
During that assignment as Chief of Medical Operations, she directed four branches responsible for medical operational and legal policy guidance for 10 USAFE medical facilities and an Air Force squadron at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and provided oversight and mentoring for 11 Chiefs of Medical Staff and over 700 medical personnel throughout Europe. She was responsible for all quality of care, patient safety, behavioral health, JCAHO compliance, community health programs and business plan execution there, among her decades of other assignments at home and abroad.
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