The company says it expected to deliver 2,000 to 3,000 homes this year, based on its quarter-end backlog of $1.04 billion.
Among these goals is to end the backlog of claims by the end of 2013, and Shinseki set about reaching that goal with customary determination, using 2008's new GI Bill as a test.
End the Backlog, a charity affiliated with the Joyful Heart Foundation: endthebacklog.org accepts donations.
In the end, the backlog was cleared -- about 1.8 million cubic meters of garbage.
And only in the most recent quarter, Apple managed to end the backlog for the original iPad.
The episode specifically addresses efforts to end the backlog in Detroit, where more than 11,000 kits were discovered.
(A spokesman acknowledged that veterans wait "too long for earned benefits," and said, "We have an aggressive plan in place to end the backlog in 2015").
In his first major environmental speech since he took office, President Bush announced plans to help end a backlog of billions of dollars in repairs to national parks.
A24 Bush on the Environment President Bush, speaking at Sequoia National Park, Calif., said in his first major speech on the environment that he would spend $5 billion in five years to help end a backlog of repairs to national parks.
Vice-President Joe Biden on Thursday joined the top US prosecutor and the Manhattan district attorney to announce a $79m initiative to end a backlog of untested sexual assault DNA kits.
