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Six VFW-member owned companies were recently included in a Forbes magazine article profiling its Top 25 Veteran-Founded Startups in America. Forbes recognized the firms as new companies (less than five years old) owned by young veterans (Post 9/11 service) and ranked each based on factors such as revenue growth, employee headcounts and external cap...
WASHINGTON — President Trump today signed a new executive order that will help the Department of Veterans Affairs better hold its employees accountable for their actions or inactions. “Proper leadership, management and accountability are only watchwords without the authority to enact change,” said Brian Duffy, the national command...
Statement of Carlos Fuentes, Director National Legislative Service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States For the Record United States Senate Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies With Respect To Preventing Veteran Suicide WASHINGTON, DC Chairman Moran, Ranking Member...
By Brian Duffy —This month marks the third anniversary of a nationwide crisis in access to care that branded the Department of Veterans Affairs as an inept and corrupt government bureaucracy that was failing in its primary mission to care for those who had borne the battle. In the aftermath, Congress quickly crafted a new law to improve the ...
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is strongly opposed to a congressional proposal to reinstate GI Bill enrollment fees on service members. Prior to 2009, troops had the option of paying into the Montgomery GI Bill, an educational benefit created during peacetime that came with a $1,200 non-reimbursable enrollment fee. As the wars in Iraq and...
It happens daily: You meet someone standing in line for coffee, at a job fair, or at a networking event, and they turn to you and ask, “So, what do you do?” How do you respond? An elevator pitch is what we call that brief response that introduces you to a stranger. It might actually happen in an elevator! The goal of the elevator pitch ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is pleased to announce the VFW-SVA Mental Health Stand-To grant in support of its commitment to the Student Veterans of America (SVA) and to changing the dialogue surrounding mental health. The VFW will support events planned and executed by SVA Chapters in support of mental health a...
“When I joined the military, I found strong role models who helped me figure out the direction I wanted my life to take. I depended on them, and they knew they could depend on me.” Zach Dochnahl, 29, who served with the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, was recently awarded a VFW “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship.”...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is offering up to $5,000 in emergency assistance grants to each of the nearly three dozen student veterans who once attended Westech College, a now defunct for-profit vocational school in southern California. “The affected student veterans were receiving a monthly sti...
Washington D.C. – The premiere production with moving tributes, compelling imagery and performances brought crowds to tears and to their feet as the United States World War I Centennial Commission hosted “In Sacrifice for Liberty and Peace: Centennial Commemoration of the U.S. Entry into World War I” yesterday at the National Worl...
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