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Visits to OSAGWI / DSHD over the years

Old copy:
Skyline plaza isnt exactly the easiest place to get to,
then you find out that OSAGWI is split into two
buildings across the street from each other. The
Veteran Database Management team in one
building with lower security, and the main office
with the heavy security in the below picture.
You have to sign in, and wear a badge. You also
have to have a escort to roam around, they need
time also to clean up classified material from your
view. ( snicker )
When up at the front office, its best to ask for one
of the following:
Bob Menig
Col. Francis O'Donnel
Dr. Mike Kilpatrick They are generally the offices closest to the front
door, and are more congenial than others.
When over at the VDM side ask for:
Marie Danco
James Reeves They are older team members with pretty good
people skills.
They have no literature laying around, and are not
very social, so don't expect a nice slow visit.

New Copy, 2005:
From 1996 to 2001, OSAGWI had been a little more
accessible than it is today. I called Jim Reeves at
BDM almost every week to keep each other posted,
and discuss problems of both sides. I could reach Mike
Kilpatrick, Dee Dodsen Morris, Col Frank oDonnel, and
other OSAGWI employees at their desk phones. Now
Public Affairs wont even answer there phones.

Most of the fun folks had left, and they renamed OSAGWI
to Deployment Health Support Directorate. In March of
2001 DHSD adopted a policy in which Gulf War veterans
were not welcome anymore. With UNSECDEF Bernard
Rostker gone, they changed policy of not meeting with
vets in a public arena.
We met with Mike Kilpatrick in 2002, and found that DHSD
wasn't even interested in doing its job. They had become
sloppy before the March 2003 war started, and back peddled
when comments they made in 2002 back fired on them.
They were so embarrassed about 2002 that they refuse
to post the NSO meetings so that people wouldn't know
how bad they had handled the Iraqi war medical preparations.
The complete mishandling of the Pre-Post deployment exams
and the attempted blow off of tracking medical records in the
Iraqi Theater of Operations. All things we discussed with
them before the war.

Now they have red sirens in the hallways there to let them know
a unescorted person is in the room. The atmosphere is one of
tedium and paranoia.

DHSD is a shadow organization now, and a poorly run one
at that. Its no wonder they want to operate out of site of the
veterans as we watch all our health programs fall apart. The
DOD IG is aware of it, but decided to let Health Affairs handle
it - and Health Affairs wont because there is no oversight in
place. Even the GAO wrote a report at how these programs
have lead to the dysfunction of Gulf War research, and yet
without enforcement DOD was happy to go lax.

With a $16,000,000 budget, it just seems like a really poor
use of tax payers money. One thing for sure, once President
Clinton left office and President Bush stepped in - DHSD
became reflective of the difference in administrations. At
least President Clinton came to my aid when I asked him.