Rural Veterans can now enjoy better access to health care services. Check out this story from our colleaguesour west. San Francisco Chronicle – Veterans lured by rural spaces like the desolate Nevada desert sfgate/nation/article/Veterans-lured-by-rural-areas-like-the-desolate-5884367.php GOLDFIELD, Nev. — Out here where sagebrush and rattlesnakes rule, the nearest movie theater is more than 100 miles away. Same goes for the nearest shopping mall. And the closest choked commute. That’s exactly why retired Navy Chief Dave Beth, retired Army Sgt. Nate Lutrell and retired Army Specialist Carl Brownfield have all fled here — along with, according to U.S. census figures, an astonishing number of other military veterans. So many, in fact, that Esmeralda County — a mile-high sprawl of scrubby hills and rustic cabins 260 miles south of Reno — contains the highest concentration of veterans per capita of any county in the Western United States: 28 percent.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:32:31 +0000
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