The RAO Bulletin reports that over 25,000 veterans have applied for benefits under the new VRAP program for unemployed veterans, age 35-60; approximately half of those have already been approved. Veterans chosen for the 45,000 slots in the first year of the program will receive educational benefits for one year, to help them train for high-demand careers. For more information, see your local VA or DES Veterans Representative, or see: http://benefits.va.gov/vow/education.htm
Applications for our Summer II and Fall sessions of VUB free pre-college modules, online and in-person at Yavapai College, are being accepted. See our web at www.yc.edu/vub or call 928-717-7686, for more information.
Our friends at Military.com remind you to keep up with political issues that affect the military and/or to contact your local government representatives on hot-button topics, you may visit the Military.com Legislative Center.
In a discussion of recent Stolen Valor court decisions, the RAO Bulletin reported, “The Medal of Honor is among the rarest of honors: Only 81 of the 3,457 recipients since the Civil War are still living. Of those, only three are younger than 35, according to the Congressional Medal of Honor Society.” To read more about this prestigious honor, see: http://www.cmohs.org/
For more information about the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI) and their fight to have ‘invisible wounds’ of veterans treated as any other physical wound would be, see their website at: www.nami.org and their report "Parity for Patriots." This website also has valuable resources and research, and local branches in each state.
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