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Bryan Meyer glances up from the pile of folders on his handmade, wooden desk at the Veterans Community Project (VCP) headquarters at 89th Street and Troost Avenue in Kansas City, Mo. It’s 10 a.m. on a Friday, and there’s already a line of people at the door waiting to see him. If someone had told him a year prior that he would find hims...
GEORGETOWN, Texas – The annual Sport Clips Haircuts’ “Help A Hero” campaign kicks off today, and you can help service members and veterans take the next step toward civilian careers through education when you visit a local store. Now through Veterans Day, November 11, you can “Help A Hero” when you get a haircut...
Statement of Carlos Fuentes, Director, National Legislative Service, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, Before the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, United States House of Representatives, With Respect To “Draft legislation, the Asset and Infrastructure Review Act of 2017, and H.R. 2773, to authorize the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to s...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The nearly 1.7 million members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. and its Auxiliary joins with America in saluting all sailors on their 242nd birthday this Friday. For more than two centuries, the U.S. Navy has time and again proven to be the most formidable force on the high seas. Sailors past and present serve wi...
Retired Sergeant First Class Brian Livingston joined the Army while still attending high school in small town Grand Island, Neb. in 2000. He wanted to see more of the world, and believed strongly that he had a duty to serve his country. “It doesn’t matter how long you serve, just that you serve,” he said. Livingston deployed three...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – For the past 70 years, the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. has worked tirelessly to nurture patriotism through education, but time is running out for America’s students and teachers to become a part of that legacy this year. The VFW is still accepting applications for its popular Voice of Democracy and Patriot&rs...
Nathaniel Juarez, 27, of Greensboro, N.C., was recently awarded the VFW’s “Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship.” The funds will help pay his tuition as Juarez works toward his Doctorate in Information Technology. After enlisting and completing basic training at the age of 17, Juarez served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Jordan, Kuwait and ...
Ever wondered how many other veterans are seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress (PTS)? What kinds of treatments they’re trying? And if those treatments are helping? At PatientsLikeMe, we’re also interested in the experiences of veterans and wanted to learn more about this community. PatientsLikeMe is an organization that works to ...
After eight years of honorable service in the California Army National Guard, Sgt. Steve Chang applied for veteran education benefits in July 2010. “[Chang] operated in good faith and relied on the VA to properly decide on the payments that were due for those school terms,” said George Burke, Associate Director of Field Operations at th...
I wish I could tell you there was a magic formula for finding a meaningful job after you leave the military. There isn’t. Every person’s job search process looks and feels different, and there is no secret you’re missing in making the transition. Leaving the military to work in the private sector might look familiar – you w...
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