Jack Silver was in the Army from 1970-1998. From 1968-1970 he watched the build-up to Vietnam. He was in grad school when he was drafted, but the draft board let him finish his grad work before enlisting. During his time in the Army, Silver worked as a Social Work Officer at Walter Reed Army Medical […]
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Due to COVID-19, many organizations are responding to rising needs. Among them is United Food Bank in Mesa, who is a member of the Feeding America network. In March, they held food distribution events weekly where they served 542 households and 1,670 individuals and distributed 20,677 pounds of food, averaging 34 pounds of food per
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Due to COVID-19, the National Memorial Cemetery of Arizona’s annual Memorial Day event (May 25), will change from an in-person ceremony to a televised and live stream event to comply with the Center for Disease Control’s public safety guidelines. The event will be both televised and shared via Livestream thanks to a partnership between AZTV’s
OZZI GOV is an exclusive app for U.S. Military, Intelligence, Executive Departments, and their families. Created by Isaiah Lopez, whose apps have helped over 300,000 people worldwide, OZZI provides up-to-the-minute news, resources, and information they can access at the touch of a button. With app costs fully paid for by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
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Army Veteran David Campbell., was only 17 years old when he joined the Army in August of 1990. Just one day after he signed up, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and 13 weeks later, Campbell deployed to Kuwait in what has become known as the ‘100 Hours War.’ He was severely wounded in an explosion and
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VA offers urgent care services to eligible Veterans at VA medical facilities or in-network urgent care clinics closer to home. Under the new urgent care/retail location benefit created in the MISSION Act, Veterans enrolled in VA’s health care system can use VA’s urgent care benefit to treat minor injuries and illnesses that are not life-threatening,
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During national disasters, military service members and other federal employees can engage in deployments to “hot spots” around the country. Such an implementation took place this month when the 943rd Aerospace Medicine Squadron (AMDS) sent two Critical Care Respiratory Therapists to the Javits Conference Center in New York to support the converted hospital. Both personnel
To boost health care workers in both the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the federal government is offering special incentives. At DoD Lt. Gen. Thomas Seamands, deputy chief of staff for U.S. Army Personnel, sent out a letter to retirees. In it, he is asking troops with service in
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At Honoring America’s Veterans (HAV), we are facing some challenging times, and how we brave through them is going to be critical to our country. Our nonprofit supports programs that honor and recognize our veterans through group engagements; thus, our current efforts are on hold. We know the health and safety of America’s veterans is
Arizona is home to three Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care facilities and dozens of Community Based Outpatient Clinics or CBOCs where hundreds of thousands of eligible veterans receive their health care. During the COVID-19 crisis of 2020, VA has directed all of these facilities to do the following: They are establishing protocols to
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