June 3, 2011 By Donna Miles, American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 1, 2011 -- As part of an interagency effort to support America's veterans, the Labor Department today announced $37 million in grants to provide job training for about 21,000 veterans, many of them homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis announced the grants today, … [Read more...]
Online School
The U.S. Military offers one of the best benefits you could want from a job: they give you money for an education. Through the G.I. Bill, soldiers and their families get money to use for college. But one of the drawbacks of life in the military is moving around, sometimes frequently, making it difficult to schedule classes or keep up with class work. One answer may be online … [Read more...]
VA Expands TSGLI Payment Eligibility
June 2, 2011 By J.D. Leipold WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- Soldiers previously ineligible to receive insurance payments for injuries they received outside of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom will soon have the opportunity to submit claims for Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance Traumatic Injury Protection Program. Effective Oct.1, 2011, servicemembers … [Read more...]
Georgetown University Military Commissioning Ceremony
The Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) is an internationally recognized academic medical center whose missions of research, teaching, and patient care are carried out with a strong emphasis on community outreach and the Jesuit principle of cura personalis -- care of the whole person. Georgetown University Medical Center would like to congratulate our students who … [Read more...]
Navy Sailors Inspire Elementary Students Through Mentorship Program
May 31, 2011 By Petty Officer 3rd Class Hadi El-Abiad SAN DIEGO - Female sailors assigned to Fleet Logistics Support Squadron Five-Seven volunteered their time by giving career presentations to fifth and sixth-graders at Berry Elementary School in San Diego May 27. The presentations were part of an existing relationship between the elementary school and VR-57 to mentor and … [Read more...]