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Veteran Tyler Walsh, 30, of Middlebury, Conn., believes higher education is incredibly important for veterans. “The military teaches us lessons that cannot always be cleanly transferred into the civilian world. Higher education allows us to truly integrate all of the life lessons we learned in the military to our civilian careers,” he s...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce it is working to restore the sounds of life for VFW members and their families with significant savings on hearing care through its new relationship with Amplifon Hearing Health Care. This newest member benefit is one of several the VFW has recently rolled out, t...
Veteran Portia Bethea of Neptune, N.J. values community. She first found the value of the VFW community when she exhausted her GI Bill benefits, but still had three semesters left at St. Thomas University School of Law. “The VFW’s ‘Sport Clips Help A Hero Scholarship’ definitely affected my life. I didn’t have full kno...
When “retired” Major General Mike Regner was approached by the Marine Corps to continue his service as a senior mentor, he didn’t skip a beat when he responded “Absolutely!” “It just means I get to keep giving back, just like the VFW does,” he said. There are eight senior mentors who work for the Training a...
Navy Commander Ronald Seits expected to sail smoothly into retirement after 20 years of active duty and ten in the reserve. During his career, he deployed all over the world including Qatar, Iraq, and three tours in Afghanistan. After he experienced some medical issues, he was surprised by the Navy’s request that he retire within six months o...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The more than 1.6 million members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. and its Auxiliary congratulate the U.S. Coast Guard on its 229 years of service and bravery defending our great nation. Originally established as the Revenue Service on Aug. 4, 1790, by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, the role of today&rsqu...
WASHINGTON – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and Student Veterans of America (SVA) are now accepting applications from student veterans who are interested in participating in the upcoming 2020 VFW-SVA Legislative Fellowship program. The fellowship, now in its sixth year, will bring up to 10 student veterans – who must ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — William J. “Doc” Schmitz, of Corning, N.Y., has been elected the new leader of the 1.2 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, a congressionally-chartered veterans service organization comprised of eligible veterans and military service members from all five branches of the armed forces. Sc...
In continuing an eight-year relationship between an Oregon VFW Post and Junior ROTC program, one VFW member recently accompanied her son’s JROTC group to Normandy in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Shannon Ferreira, a member of VFW Post 1324 in Oregon City, Ore., served as a chaperone to the group of 13 cadets. The cadets part...
Orlando, Fla. – Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the nation’s leading health and well-being companies, is furthering its commitment to provide veterans with the resources, information and holistic guidance they need to achieve their best health as the lead sponsor of the 120th Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) National Convention in Orlando...
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