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Dan Olmsted
DOlmsted@upi.com

Dan Olmsted is a senior editor at UPI. Previously, he worked at Gannett and was an original staff member at USA TODAY.

He also worked at the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y., and the Danville, Ill., Commercial-News. Along with Mark Benjamin, Olmsted won a best internet reporting award from the National Mental Health Association in 2005 for coverage of Lariam and the military.
 

 

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Before Walter Reed, there were Fort Stewart and Fort Knox and...
SHOWCASE | March 05, 2007
In 2003 and 2004, UPI uncovered and reported abusive treatment by the Army of sick and wounded soldiers in Georgia and Kentucky and highly questionable handling of a widow in Colorado whose Green Beret husband killed himself in front of her. Seeking comment from the Army at the time, a UPI reporter and editor got stiff-armed instead.


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