Vets Experience

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"A CAPITOL FOURTH" airs on PBS Thursday, July 4, 2024 from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. E.T.

The following is an account from Army Veteran Robert Pryor on how he was able to find and reconnect with the pilot who saved his life in Vietnam.

Each week, we receive job announcements from employers and employment websites—including RallyPoint, RecruitMilitary, VetJobs and HireMilitary—looking to hire Veterans. This post contains links to job listings for the week of June 24, 2024. Each week, we’ll continue to post relevant and timely listings as we receive them, and for the locations listed.

In the past two years, 92 veterans have found renewed purpose and new careers through the Accelerated Training in Defense Manufacturing (ATDM) program.

Fisher House Foundation builds comfort homes where military and Veteran families can stay free of charge while a loved one is in the hospital.

This post contains links to job listings for the week of June 17, 2024. Each week, we’ll continue to post relevant and timely listings as we receive them, and for the locations listed.

Mandy Pifer — who lost her first responder fiance in an ISIS-related shooting in 2015 — said it best, “You have to know Posttraumatic Growth exists in order for it to happen. You have to know it’s okay for good things to happen after really bad things.”

The first National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial of its kind, published in JAMA Network Open, links the pairing of Service Dogs with military Veterans to lowered PTSD severity, diagnosis odds, and other negative mental health symptoms.

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Each week, we receive job announcements from employers and employment websites—including RallyPoint, RecruitMilitary, VetJobs and HireMilitary—looking to hire Veterans. This post contains links to job listings for the week of June 10, 2024. Each week, we’ll continue to post relevant and timely listings as we receive them, and for the locations listed.

The National Association of County Veteran Service Officers (NACVSO) partnered with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the Colorado Division of Veterans Affairs to host their first-ever NACVSO VA Claims Clinic during the organization’s annual conference in Denver, Colorado. The claims clinic boasted 500 CVSOs, representatives from VA benefits and healthcare, memorial specialists, loan experts, and state Veteran-serving partners – all working together to assist the over 800 participants who attended the event. This claims clinic was especially helpful as they hosted onsite examinations for VA compensation & pension claims, completing over 430 exams during the clinic.