The United States Department of Defense maintains hundreds of domestic and international military installations. Military installations include bases, camps, posts, stations, yards, and centers that support military operations and are under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense. According to the most recent Base Structure Report issued by the Department of Defense, the United States maintains almost 600 overseas military …
Families Push to Change Beneficiaries under the Defense Base Act
Civilian contractors work all over the globe in support of the mission of the United States Departments of Defense and State. Contractors are specialized professionals, former military, and other skilled trades that help sustain U.S. military installations abroad. When individuals are injured or killed overseas while working for a government contractor federal law provides an array of benefits aimed at …
InjuredOverseas.com – Nationally Respected Source of Information On The Defense Base Act
For individuals, businesses, and institutions seeking information on The Defense Base Act, injuredoverseas.com is a valuable resource. News outlets have discovered as much, utilizing the law website in a recent story covering the plight of Doctors Without Borders for international support in the wake of the bombing of a hospital in Afghanistan. In seeking to share information about the Defense …
Unseen Casualties: RAND Corporation Study Examines the Mental and Physical Health Outcomes for Contractors Deployed to Conflict Zones
When a nation goes to war, uniformed military personnel are not the only people contributing to the effort, even in the zone of combat itself. While the deployment of private contractors in the company of military forces is hardly a new development – early artillery of the 16th century was kept supplied and even crewed by civilian contractors until the …
Employees of US Contractors Who Die Abroad From “Unnatural” Causes Entitled to Benefits Under the Defense Base Act
According to a recent piece in BloombergBusiness, over 8,000 American citizens died from unnatural causes while traveling abroad during the past ten years. The cause of many of these deaths are rather ordinary. Accidents lead the list in Canada, car accidents are the top cause in much of South America, motorcycle accidents are the top killer in Vietnam, Indonesia, and …