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Military Times
House lawmakers advanced the largest budget in Veterans Affairs history, but the spending package faces an uncertain future in the Senate and even tougher odds if it reaches the White House.
That's because the $241 billion VA funding measure — which also includes about $10 billion more in appropriations for military construction projects — includes language blocking President Donald Trump from transferring certain funds to his controversial military wall project, and money to begin renaming military bases currently honoring confederate leaders.
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By Seth Sandronsky
According to a July 14 letter from over 20 nonprofit public interest groups, the president and vice president should "immediately step aside from any further role in leading or communicating about the federal response to the pandemic." As Senate Republicans rolled out a new coronavirus relief package, a reporter contacted the White House to comment on the July 14 letter but did not get a reply. Similarly, the president and vice president ignored Public Citizen, which spearheaded the writing of the July 14 letter, as the U.S. death toll surged past 140,000.
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I feel that veterans are being fully treated for their mental and emotional military career injuries.
TRICARE
You may have questions about COVID-19 testing. Two kinds of tests are used to determine SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) infection: diagnostic (viral) and antibody testing. It's important you know the difference between the tests, how to get tested, and what TRICARE covers.
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Military Times
Senate lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to force the Department of Veterans Affairs to add three serious illnesses — bladder cancer, hypothyroidism and Parkinson's-like symptoms — to the list of conditions presumed linked to chemical defoliant exposure in Vietnam. The move has the potential to extend veterans disability benefits to tens of thousands of veterans, but still faces a long legislative road ahead.
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Military Times
Different states offer various benefits for veterans, but some are not widely used by veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs asked representatives to discuss the most underused benefit in their respective states.
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TRICARE
While COVID-19 may have caused you to rearrange your original summertime plans, there's still plenty you can do outdoors. However, now more than ever, you'll need to practice good health and safety habits. By doing so, you'll not only protect your own health, but the health of someone else, too.
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Forbes
Veteran-owned businesses are especially poised to lead our economy out of its current crisis. This is because those who have gone to war are trained in the art of responding to what are known as VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) environments. Veteran-owned businesses also employ 5.8 million Americans and bring in a revenue of $1.14 trillion annually. If we want to reinvigorate our economy, we should start by supporting veteran-owned small businesses.
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By Wayne Titus
"Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity." When the U.S. Army War College first introduced these four words in 1987, it drew on the leadership ideas of Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus to describe the effects of the end of the Cold War on the world. Since then, both world leaders and business strategists have applied these terms to reflect the relative chaos and instability caused by other world events.
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Military Times
Student veterans hoping for resolution in a court case which could open an extra year of GI Bill education benefits to hundreds of thousands of individuals won’t get any resolution before the start of the fall semester.
But may see some legal progress in time for the spring.
The case — Rudisill v. Wilkie, pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit — has gained the attention of numerous education and veterans advocacy groups in recent months due to its potential impact on veterans education benefits.
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You may use your existing security license, and/or, if not, we will provide classroom training to obtain your 8-hour and 16-hour certifications for eventual approval of your license via state application for armed and unarmed security.
Apply Today! Send an email inquiry to rworks@vetsaa.org, or call 1-800-590-2173. All veterans MUST be registered with the VAA organization to obtain gainful employment.
VAA Security, Inc. is a subsidiary of the Veterans Association of America, Inc. that provides detailed training for security guards/officer openings throughout the continental US.
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