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Placing Vets Among the Best with C#

Dog Tag Development, Inc. is dedicated to our mission to increase the number of veterans employed in the information technology community by providing software development education. This is why one of the main components of the course we are designing will include C#, pronounced C-sharp.

C# is a hybrid of C and C++, and was developed as a Microsoft programming language in order to compete with Sun’s Java language.  It is an object-oriented programming language that is based on C++ with elements from Visual Basic and Java. Like Java, C# provides automatic garbage collection, whereas traditional C and C++ do not. C# was created by Microsoft and also standardized by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA). Microsoft designed C# as its flagship programming language for the .NET environment.

Our programmers at Dog Tag Development, Inc. feel that teaching today’s highly  skilled vets will give them the necessary technological, edge to be highly competitive in the Information Technology scene.

Many of you may be asking, just as I was, what would this code even look like? Here is an example from Microsoft’s open source library.

// A Hello World! program in C#. 
using System;
namespace HelloWorld
{
    class Hello 
    {
        static void Main() 
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");

            // Keep the console window open in debug mode.
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

To me this is a total foreign language, but our programmers are phenomenal at what they do.  The team here at Dog Tag Development combined with the values and skills that veterans bring to the table, will prove to be an invaluable asset to the growing, demanding, and fast-paced Information Technology driven world we live in today.

“Responsible and Timely Action…”

…is what Secretary Shinseki pledged during his testimony to Congress yesterday when speaking of the action that will take place based in reference to allegations that dozens of veterans died because of inadequate treatment at a Phoenix, Ariz. VA medical facility.  Tom Tarantino, the Chief Policy Officer for the IAVA, said ‘Veterans expect action to correct the problems to be “taken in weeks, not months” and urged completely independent investigations of the scheduling and health care claims independent of the VA,’ the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday. 

“Responsible and Timely” needs to follow in line with the Mr. Tarantino’s statement; all veterans deserve this.  We have put our lives on the line and deserve quality healthcare, free of fraud, waste, and abuse.

Shinseki was given three weeks to have a report on the investigation into these allegations.  I think it’s important to note that Secretary Shinseki “resisted calls from a Democratic senator to bring in the Justice Department and FBI for a criminal investigation. Shinseki said he first wanted to see results of the audit and a report on the VA inspector general’s office on its investigation of the Phoenix hospital.

It is understandable that he wanted to launch his own audit but find it notable that he denied extra assistance from an unbiased and competent party. Forty veterans may be dead because of the “secret lists” and Congress should be the deciding body for who helps and who does not.

I’m “mad as hell” just as Secretary Shinseki is! He has every right to be.  I commend Dr. Sam Foote for coming forward about the two lists at the Phoenix VA, yet I wonder how long he knew it was going on? How deep does this rabbit hole go?  In thee weeks we should know more.

Dog Tag Development, Inc. would like to thank the IAVA and POGO for partnering together to create the online Whistleblower Project meant to expose widespread problems plaguing the Veterans Administration health care system, anonymously. Our organization would like to encourage people with knowledge of these malpractices to use the secure, online form to help end these atrocities.

New Generation of Vets Demands a VA for the 21st Century

Regrettably, this is not news to vets. Veterans from eras past have been complaining for years about the substandard care received by the VA and, it is unfortunate that it came to this before things have changed.  Only time will reveal the results of their investigation and the timeline of the current scandals.

www.nbcnews.com/storyline/va-hospital-scandal/new-generation-vets-demands-va-21st-century-n104606

*Photo Courtesy of http://www.military.com/topics/department-of-veteran-affairs