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Pilot Program at Fort Hood Customizes Transition

Fort Hood is one of six installations selected for a pilot program that could customize the transition process for Soldiers. Starting Oct. 1, Soldiers at six selected installations will phase into the two-year Soldier for Life – Transition Assistance Program Pilot that customizes the transition process for the Soldier. “The Army believes there is a […]

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FAMU Gets Veterans Entrepreneurial Program

TALLAHASSEE, FL (WTXL) – An organization that focuses on helping Veterans announced that Florida A&M University will participate in a statewide entrepreneurship program for Veterans. Veteran Florida Executive Director, Bobby Carbonell, announced Wednesday that they had selected two more schools to participate in a program for Veterans seeking to start their own businesses. FAMU and […]

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Donnelly: No Veteran Should Lose Out After ITT Tech’s Closing

Granger, Ind. — U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly asked Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Bob McDonald to confirm that the bipartisan Veterans First Act—legislation that Donnelly has cosponsored—would enable the VA to restore GI Bill benefits for veterans who were enrolled at ITT Tech at the time of ITT’s closure in September 2016. In the […]

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Veterans Reunited With Families After Training

Veterans from across the country have come to train at Airstream Renewable Resources for jobs in wind energy. But they couldn’t necessarily afford to move their families to Tehachapi upon completing their education and landing a local job. That’s where Veterans Collaborative Services comes in, Tehachapi City Councilman Ed Grimes shared during the Tehachapi Rotary […]

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Campus Provides Haven for Veterans

Brick walls and wide archways pave the way to an isolated part of campus, one that is only available to an exclusive group of the Wilkes community. Specifically, to those who have served our country. To many students, the basement of Conyngham Hall is a place they may never step foot in their four years […]

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Veterans’ Records Found in Storage Unit

RICHMOND, Va.— Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring is seeking a criminal investigation after applications for veterans’ benefits were found in a storage unit belonging to a former state employee who was fired last year for mishandling records, officials said. Between 20 and 30 boxes of documents were recovered from the unit belonging to the ex-employee […]

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Utah State Program Puts PTSD Veterans on Horseback

WELLSVILLE CANYON, Utah —When he was on combat deployment in the Marine Corps, Justin Bishop, of Logan, saw the worst of the worst images from the Persian Gulf War in the early 1990s. Bishop developed post-traumatic stress disorder — experiencing nightmares, sleepless nights, hyper-vigilance and depression. But because of “the culture and stigma of seeking […]

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Florida Partnership Supports Veterans

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Military.com and Veterans Florida announced today that they have joined forces to provide employment tools and resources for veterans and transitioning military members who want to live in Florida. Veterans Florida is a non-profit organization funded by the State of Florida to help promote the state as a […]

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“Opportunity Knox” Helps Veterans Find Jobs

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Oct. 3, 2016) — Where Opportunity Knox, a regional initiative to connect transitioning veterans and/or military spouses to jobs in the Greater Louisville Region, announced that it now is holding office hours at Fort Campbell, a U.S. Army installation located at the Kentucky-Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Ky., and Clarksville, Tenn. In partnership with […]

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Peer Advisors Help Incoming Veterans

“I’m from Syracuse, but even coming to a new university and meeting people, it’s daunting. It can be overwhelming,” Brigandi says. “Coming to a new campus you have a lot of questions—classes, your benefits, where to go.” He then found a go-to resource: other student veterans. “When I first started I had to go out […]

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Charity “Watch List” Boosts Wounded Warrior’s Standing

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – After eight months of scrutiny, the Wounded Warrior Project’s effort to rebuild its reputation in the nonprofit community got a big boost when a major charity watchdog group removed WWP from its watch list. Charity Navigator, known for its independent review of nonprofit’s across the country, added Wounded Warrior Project to its […]

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Veterans Defend Georgetown Program

When an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, Mark Henderson (COL ’17) jumped into action to help survivors. As an enlisted member of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States Army’s Global Response Force, Henderson and his fellow soldiers at Fort Brag, N.C., were deployed to aid civilians in the Caribbean country. “I was part […]

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