Got Your Six Video, Veterans' Life-Saving Smartphone App, Tucson Homeless Veterans Initiative, California Workers to Help VA Backlog, American Legion Career Site

Today’s Video is the latest from Got Your Six, at: http://youtu.be/N-gpv01OCiw It’s the facts about our Veterans – please share this widely and often.

At a friend’s funeral, a life-saving idea was born: Marine Veteran, Jacob Wood, created a smartphone app to connect Veterans to each other, see more at: http://www.stripes.com/news/app-links-struggling-veterans

To learn more about a federal grant received for the Veterans’ Homelessness initiative in Tucson, see: http://youtu.be/699xvhAto28

California steps up to the plate to help relieve the backlog of VA disability benefit claims in the state, where one of the three VA regional offices has a 629 day waiting time (291 days longer than the national average.)  California will assign 12-member teams of state workers to review cases at each of the three VA offices, see: http://www.armytimes.com/article/20130709/BENEFITS04/307090032/Calif-hiring-state-workers-help-VA-claims

The American Legion provides a cornucopia of Veterans’ career and networking sites at: http://www.legion.org/careers/resources  This site includes links to many other resources, including those for career fairs, tips for job seekers, and help for homeless Veterans.