Programs
Military Organizations Taking ‘Man’ Out of Job Titles
June 27, 2016
Military service organizations are changing some job titles to reflect their more inclusive policies and gender-neutral job positions. In December, Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered all military jobs to be open to women. Today, 'firemen'…
Chapter 227’s Minuteman Alert Prevents Veteran Eviction
June 14, 2016
The Minuteman Alert from the Dean K. Phillips Memorial Chapter 227 in Arlington, VA was successfully used to prevent a military veteran who sustained injuries in Iraq service as a State Department employee from being…
Chapter 196 Helps Disabled Vets with Their Golf Swing
June 13, 2016
Chapter 196 in Lynchburg, VA has teamed up with Hill City’s American Legion and the local chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart to hold golf clinics for disabled veterans in central Virginia.…
June 3, 2016
VVA Applauds Navy Sec. Mabus for Implementing Protections for Sailors and Marines with Invisible Wounds of War
(Washington, D.C.) – “We are encouraged by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus’s recent policy directive aimed at increasing protections for Sailors and Marines suffering as a result of the service--from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Traumatic…
Women Veterans Committee Update May/June 2016
May 31, 2016
During the Women Veterans Committee meeting, Dr. Kathryn Magruder presented results from the VA National Retrospective Health Study for Vietnam Women Veterans. More than five thousand women who served in Vietnam, other places in Southeast…
PTSD & Substance Abuse Committee Update May/June 2016
May 31, 2016
In March the National Veterans Legal Services Program and the Veterans Legal Clinic at the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School published the report, Underserved: How the VA Wrongfully Excludes Veterans with Bad Paper…
POW/MIA Committee Update May/June 2016
May 31, 2016
There remain 1, 621 missing from the Vietnam War. Since 1975, 962 men have been accounted for. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recently accounted for Sgt. 1st Class Alan L. Boyer, Special Forces, listed…
Minority Affairs Committee Update May/June 2016
May 31, 2016
The Minority Affairs Committee has established its goals for the new fiscal year. Despite our meager budget, we will try to extend our efforts across the country using the talents of our committee members in…
VVA’s Veterans Initiative in Ho Chi Minh City
May 24, 2016
“Their spirits will live, as long as we do not forget them”—Dr. Tran Van Ban By Grant Coates, POW/MIA Co-chair While in Hanoi, Vietnam, on the 2015 mission of the Veterans Initiative, the team had…
Chapter 20 Vets Welcomed Home by High School Students
May 2, 2016
The veterans from Chapter 20 in Rochester, NY have been volunteering their stories with the juniors of Churchville-Chili High School for seven years. It is an on-going tradition that was begun upon the invitation of…