Short-timer? Plan your post-service benefits

#Middlebury #VeteransPost If you’re about to leave the service, there are a number of transition services you need to know about. Your biggest issue will be timing. Wherever you’re ... Continue Reading →

Honor veterans by caring for grave sites

#Middlebury #VeteransPost Twice a year in national cemeteries across the country, veterans are honored with ceremonies and visits. Memorial Day has long been the day to honor those ... Continue Reading →

Give a Vet a lift

#Middlebury #VeteransPost Unless you’re a veterans’ service officer with one of the veterans groups, you probably can’t help a fellow veteran push through the paperwork ... Continue Reading →

Wait times are getting better, but …

#Middlebury #VeteransPost It wasn’t so long ago that veterans were waiting a very long time for medical appointments. While clerks fiddled with fake appointment books and scribbled ... Continue Reading →

Privatizing the VA

#Middlebury #VeteransPost To hear David Shulkin tell it, he was bounced from his position as head of the Department of Veterans Affairs because he was anti-privatization, pressured ... Continue Reading →

New VA Chief must hit ground running

#Middlebury #VeteransPost David Shulkin is gone. No matter how he came to exit the building, whether he quit or was fired, he’s gone. Now the president has nominated his own personal ... Continue Reading →

Vets can help needy vets

#Middlebury #VeteransPost If you’re a veteran and you’re doing OK, consider stepping up to help other veterans who aren’t. There are quite a few ways you can help. ... Continue Reading →

Shulkin again

#Middlebury #VeteransPost It’s not looking good for Department of Veterans Affairs chief David Shulkin to continue in his job. He’s come under the piercing gaze of the Office ... Continue Reading →

Vets need to look out for No. 1

#Middlebury #VetsPost All across the country there are veterans who might be ill and not know it. The reason: They don’t have the results of their medical tests. If you have medical ... Continue Reading →

Vets can get discounted vacations

#Middlebury #VeteransPost #Vacations Some of us are still shoveling snow, but soon it will be time for spring or summer vacation. The time to think about it is now, before all the slots ... Continue Reading →