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One phone call to Joshua Kampert in 2019 may have saved his life. Kampert received the call from Iraq War veteran Justin Johnson. Johnson said that he and Kampert talked about their struggles after leaving the Marine Corps. The pair were deployed to Iraq from February to September 2005 with Charlie Co., Combat Logistics Bn. 8. “After connect...
Patrick Byrne, 40, lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children, Patrick, Finnegan and Amelia. In college, he joined the ROTC before serving in the Army for nine years. Patrick was stationed in Georgia, North Carolina and Alaska and completed deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, years later, he manages...
Six years after his original lawsuit against the state of Texas for not following the Uniformed Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act (USERRA), retired Army Capt. LeRoy Torres was awarded $2.49 million by a Texas jury on Sept. 29. An Army Reservist who lost his job as a Texas state trooper when he suffered a service-connected disability ...
Growing up in the small community of Cape May, New Jersey, Gabrielle Masterson had a fascination with outer space. More focused on the arts and less on math and science, Masterson would paint pictures of space and the planets. “I found space amazing and terrifying at the same time,” Masterson said. During her junior and senior years of ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) is now accepting submissions for its 2024 National Publications Contest. VFW publications published up to four times annually, or five or more times annually, will be judged in four categories. The categories are: Department-level publications: Newspaper/Newsletter Define...
A study published in July claims a type of polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) used in the military is linked to testicular cancer in airmen. The toxin is a component in firefighting foam, such as aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), which is used to extinguish liquid-based fires. A medical journal, Environmental Health Perspectives, published an article...
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