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For more than 100 years, the VFW Auxiliary has strived to improve the lives and wellbeing of veterans, service members and their families. The Auxiliary’s nearly half a million members work alongside VFW for the betterment of the communities in which they live. “VFW is thankful for the Auxiliary,” VFW Commander-in-Chief William &l...
Army Chief Warrant Officer Billy Barber stood atop the Chugach Mountain in 1967 at the Summit Site in Anchorage Borough, Alaska. He looked down at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and the school where his daughter was enrolled and thought his life was about to change. Russian aircraft had flown into U.S. airspace — a maneuver Soviet pilots oft...
Roger Soiset stood among the 80 guests happily crammed into Trinity Baptist Church in Thomasville, Ga., on a warm afternoon in July 2019. The VFW member from Post 5255 in Grayson, Ga., had traveled across the state with four others who served alongside him in the 1st Plt., 7th Bn., 199th Inf. Bde. to honor a fallen comrade for his heroic efforts du...
Today, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) recognizes U.S. Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody. Dunwoody entered the Army in 1974 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Women’s Army Corps in 1975. Her initial assignment was as a supply platoon leader at the 226th Maintenance Company, 100th Supply and Services Battalion, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. ...
Pablo Cruz closed the books on his 16-year career as a VFW Service Officer in Puerto Rico by owning up to a promise he forged back in 2004 with a fellow veteran. The Vega Baja native and member of VFW Post 12057 at Fort Buchanan in Guaynabo, P.R., came full-circle in the final six months of his tenure, helping the first veteran he encountered on th...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - As a new wave of scams surface in an attempt to exploit coronavirus fears, the VFW would like to remind all of its members to exercise extreme caution in providing personal information during any unsolicited call. Most recently, a VFW member reported receiving a call from an individual identifying himself as a VFW representative ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars, America’s largest organization of combat veterans, knows all too well the experience of fighting a sometimes invisible enemy. This unique understanding, and the situational readiness and dedication to country forged through military service is perpetuating the VFW and its members’ c...
After a failed Olympic bid, wrestler Sally Roberts set her sights on the Army. If she hadn’t, she never would have volunteered for deployment to Afghanistan or met the women who inspired her nonprofit, Wrestle Like A Girl. “I was incredibly depressed from not making the Olympic team,” said Roberts, who joined the Army in 2009 afte...
On March 3, a tornado ravaged Nashville, Tenn., which caused extensive damage and at least 24 deaths. Only hours after the devastation, members of VFW Post 1970 in West Nashville got to work. Commander of Post 1970 John Lambert, a Navy veteran who served from 2002 to 2006, said that members of the Post decided to open their building as a donation d...
The motto of the Veterans of Foreign Wars is “No one does more for Veterans.” Therefore, no one in your Post should feel neglected. Take a look around your Post and identify those who may have been forgotten. Maybe it is the elderly, homeless or those from another country. Find out the reason why they have been neglected and what their ...
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