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Federal News Radio
Two senators have introduced legislation to help the Veterans Affairs Department better fill its 45,000 vacancies. Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., introduced the Better Workforce for Veterans Act to give VA more funding and flexibility to fill open regional leadership positions. The bill would also require VA to survey departing employees to find out why they're leaving. There are 38,000 vacant positions responsible for delivering front-line health care.
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May 30, June 6 and 13 survey results: Has the new administration helped veterans locate new employment & housing opportunities?
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Veterans Association of America wants to know...
Has it been easier or more difficult to acquire the necessary services through this administration's bold effort to help veterans?
- Yes, it has been much more difficult.
- No, it has been easier to acquire services needed to sustain me and my family.
- It's been quite the contrary upon getting the appropriate services needed.
- I think this administration is in complete turmoil with veterans and the American public.
Please provide your unique response as we take each them very seriously..
As a reminder, we assess all answers with the utmost of care and consideration. Survey results revealed in next week's VAA Dispatch.
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Center for New American Security
Both employers and veterans benefit from the recent spotlight on the business case for hiring veterans. There is a great opportunity for business to leverage the training and talent found among veterans for an improved bottom line. However, progress in veteran hiring and retention has, at times, been stymied by the civil-military divide, characterized by a growing gap between the public and those who serve (or have served) in the military.
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The Associated Press via Military Times
Republicans on a key House panel agreed on a budget outline that would give the military more money than President Donald Trump requested while paving the way for Congress to tackle an overhaul of the tax code this fall.
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Four month average turn around with the VA’s Pension with Aid and Attendance
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Military.com
Sen. Thom Tillis has joined with senators from Texas and Massachusetts to introduce a bill that would simplify the process for troops and veterans to apply for a commercial driver's license.
Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, and Sens. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, and Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, introduced The Jobs for our Heroes Act of 2017.
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Baltimore Business Journal
University of Maryland, Baltimore County Training Centers is launching a new program for veterans in Amazon web support jobs.
Amazon Web Services is the cloud services technology of the online retail giant. The goal of the new program is to train transitioning military members and veterans at Fort Meade as Amazon cloud support associates. Training will include skills in relevant operating systems and software, cybersecurity fundamentals and programming in preparation for careers supporting Amazon Web Services.
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Military Times
White House officials backed away from one controversial veterans benefits cut but are sticking with a similar plan to trim other payouts to help balance the budget.
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By Denise A. Valenti
 Suffering a traumatic event and having underlying cardiac or systemic risks can result in even greater risk to health and risk of mortality. Roughly 8 percent of the population will suffer a traumatic event in their lifetime, and in any given year 8 million adults manifest post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. As researchers study PTSD more, they are finding a complex interaction between PTSD and medical conditions, especially those affecting the heart.
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Military Times
Current transgender policies are forcing the armed forces to assume the risks of retaining and recruiting a cohort of persons who are suffering from gender dysphoria, one of several psychological conditions that affect personal military readiness.
Obama Administration mandates ignore biological realities and research, relying instead on LGBT "experts" and like-minded consultants, including those at the Rand Corporation. These ideological sources have produced disingenuous, low-ball estimates of implementation costs, which disregard complicating factors that affect military morale and readiness.
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Military.com
In the fall of 1967, The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, finished training 498 twenty-something Marine second lieutenants. By the end of the year, nearly all were in Vietnam.
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