NO ONE LEFT BEHIND!Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a duck walks into the VA…Sometimes exaggerating to the point of absurdity is a way to draw attention to something. And sometimes a story needs no exaggeration at all. It’s absurd all on its ...
Raise Your Hand If You Think Veterans Deserve First Class Medical Care
Everybody’s in, right? So what’s first class medical care? Maybe Bill Gates’s plan? The President’s? Donald Trump’s? One of those should work for sure.If we all agree that our vets deserve that level of care, is the next step how to ...
GI Bill Fact Sheet June 2014
From the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Fact Sheet from the Department of Public Affairs - Media RelationsPost 9/11 GI Bill®The original GI Bill® that began in June 1944 provided educational benefits previously ...
Audit: More than 120,000 veterans waiting or never got care
An internal Veterans Affairs audit released Monday said tens of thousands of newly returning veterans wait at least 90 days for medical care, while even more who signed up in the VA system over the past 10 years never got an immediate ...
Veterans Secretary Eric Shinseki Resigns
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has resigned, President Barack Obama said on Friday.Embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki announced fixes to the crisis in the VA system on Friday, then met with President Barack ...
The NVF Veteran Homeless Street Team in Action
No one in her family knew Susan, and Army veteran, was homeless. In March, the NVF Outreach Team met her in a parking lot where she was living in her car to begin the process of getting her into a transitional housing program. Susan had ...
National Veterans Foundation Welcomes Nevada Entrepreneur Frank Spady to Board of Directors
The National Veterans Foundation (NVF) is honored to announce its newest Board of Directors’ Member, Frank Spady, the CEO and Founder of Canada Nevada Business Council.Spady was voted onto the NVF Board this month. He is a ...
Senate to investigate veterans’ deaths at Phoenix VA facility
The chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Thursday pledged to convene a hearing on allegations that excessive wait times at a Phoenix VA facility led to the deaths of 40 veterans.Thousands of veterans have been kept ...
