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  • Employment website teams with Joining Forces

    Employment website Monster.com is collaborating with the White House's Joining Forces campaign and will contribute to the initiative's goal of hiring or training an additional 250,000 veterans and military spouses by the end of 2014, Acting Commerce Department Secretary Rebecca M. Blank announced

  • Air Force Academy, Colo. Springs to host 2013 Warrior Games

    The 2013 Warrior Games will be held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center and the Air Force Academy May 11 to 17, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced Dec. 10.More than 200 wounded, ill and injured service members and veterans are expected to participate in 2013, comprising five U.S. teams

  • Veterans Affairs seeks to expand TBI benefits

    The Department of Veterans Affairs is publishing a proposed regulation in the Federal Register that would change its rules to add five diagnosable illnesses which are secondary to service-connected Traumatic Brain Injury, according to a VA news release issued recently."We must always decide

  • Through Airmen's Eyes: The journey back to normal

    Between August 2009 and March 2010, I lost myself during my deployment to Afghanistan. I remember coming off the airplane and seeing my family and knowing that my world would never be the same again. It took me more than a year to put my life back together. My family and co-workers greeted me coming

  • Secretaries seek integrated military, veteran support system

    The secretaries of the Defense Department and Veterans Affairs are partnering to build an integrated military and veteran support system, Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta said at a joint DOD-VA press conference at the Veterans Affairs Department here Dec. 6.Calling their departments'

  • Revamped program aids separating service members

    Major changes announced Dec. 6 to the Transition Assistance Program will revolutionize the way the military prepares people leaving the services, with mandatory participation in programs throughout their military careers to help set them up for a successful transition.The redesigned program, called

  • Resetting passwords for myPay getting easier

    Beginning in mid-December, Defense Finance and Accounting Service customers will be able to reset their myPay passwords online by answering a few security questions.The DFAS online pay account management system, myPay, is available to all military members, military retirees, annuitants, and many

  • NORAD provides website, apps to track Santa

    Children of all ages will be able to track Santa Claus on his annual journey, thanks to the North American Aerospace Defense Command.The "NORAD Tracks Santa" website at http://www.noradsanta.org is up and running. The site features a holiday countdown, games and daily activities, video messages from

  • Military-to-civilian skills credentialing pilot under way

    After completing an analysis of industry and employment trends, the Defense Department has embarked on a pilot program to help service members obtain civilian professional credentials, the department's director of training readiness and strategy told reporters recently.Frank C. DiGiovanni said five

  • DFAS announces end-of-year tax, statement availability dates

    Retiree and annuitant pay customers of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service are scheduled to receive their 2012 tax statements between mid-December through January. Most of the 1099 forms will be available a week earlier via the online myPay pay account management system

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