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Check on Veterans you Served With
Words of encouragement can go a long way. There are many veterans who have isolated themselves, dealing with depression, PTSD, feeling lonely and other struggles they are dealing with. If you have a veteran buddie you served with phone number, give them a call, if you...
Veterans Who Can Receive Commissary and Exchange Privileges
Are you a veteran who thought that you have to be retired from the military in order to have commissary and exchange privileges? Veterans that have a service connected disability rating and received a honorable discharge, former prisoner of war and if you received a...
VA Double Dipping Law
Many Veterans have been caught off-guard by the VA double dipping law which is when a veteran receives separation pay, severance pay, or special separations benefits when they are discharged but down the road if they receive a VA disability rating, that veteran will...
A Place for Veterans to Getaway
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72 Hours to Mogadishu
72 Hours to Mogadishu While the United States military and coalition forces prepared for the imminent battle with Iraq’s military forces, Operation Desert Storm, January of 1991, a second international crisis unfolded in the famine stricken country of Somalia where...
U.S. Marine Dewayne Thomas
Dewayne Thomas was born and raised in Indianapolis Indiana on the East side of town. When Dewayne was in his mid-twenties, he was running the streets and doing the wrong things. The street life was beginning to take a toll on him as he seen some of his close friends...
OPERATION EASTERN EXIT: NIGHT MISSION TO MOGADISHU
Originally Published March 1991 While most of America watched the events of the Persian Gulf unfold, a daring group of Marines executed a flawless rescue of Americans and foreign dignitaries from embassies in Somalia. While the eyes of the world focused, seemingly...
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