Veterans Who Work in Texas VA Health System: ‘The Dam’s Gonna Break’

Veterans Who Work in Texas VA Health System: ‘The Dam’s Gonna Break’

Manning the main switchboard for the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System requires skills akin to a symphony conductor. Beginning in 2006, Marlon Askew, who spent 15 years in the armed forces and saw combat in Desert Storm, worked as the system’s central teleoperator and then supervisor, connecting thousands of veterans who call each day to the system’s Temple and Waco hospitals; its six clinics in Brownwood, College Station, Cedar Park, Pa…

Veterans and Health Care

'This “government” needs to fully fund and staff the VA Healthcare System.'