May 28 2010
We found this on the IAVA website and definitely wanted to get it out there to our web-peeps! Watch the preview clip below– and you can watch the entire documentary (about an hour long) on SnagFilms website, too.
May 28 2010
This weekend is about celebrating the men and women who serve our country in uniform. With all of the events taking place around the country, we’d like to hear how YOU are celebrating the holiday.
Taking the kids to an air show? Or going to a local war memorial to pay respects to those who have fallen in combat?
Not able to get out this weekend? There are movies and specials, concerts and tv programs dedicated to the honor military servicemembers, too!
Plenty of ways to celebrate the sacrifices made every day in our name- what do you plan to do?
May 27 2010
We’ve highlighted the best parts below, but you can read the full release online, too…if you’re into that sort of thing. (Though truthfully there’s some good info AND a chart in there. And we know how you guys love charts!)
Chevrolet and USAA, a financial services provider for the military community, provided more than 21,000 discounts, for a total value of $24 million, to help U.S. troops and their families purchase a new Chevrolet in 2009. The result contributes to the industry’s best military discount program: the USAA and General Motors joint discount program offers the largest selection of vehicles and family-member eligibility of any car company…
Except for the $106,880 Corvette ZR1, every 2010 Chevrolet vehicle is eligible for both a GM Military Discount and an additional discount for USAA members. In most cases, the military affiliation discount can be combined with incentives available to the general public.
The GM Military Discount is offered to all active and Reserve members – and their spouses – of the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, National Guard and Coast Guard. Discounts typically range between $500 and $4,000 off MSRP, the suggested retail price of the vehicle purchased. In 2009, Chevrolet supported more than 5,000 customers through the GM Military Discount program, for a cumulative value of more than $12 million…
Military personnel can go to gmmilitarydiscount.com for more information, to apply for a discount code and to find the military price for the vehicle of their choice. More information about USAA’s GM discount and comprehensive auto buying services is available at http://tiny.cc/khujd.
May 27 2010
Phil Dyer, Deputy Director for Financial Education for MOAA, will be featured on Total Career Success, an Internet show on VoiceAmerica Talk Radio Network, at 11 a.m. Central on Monday, May 31.
The show is designed to inform and encourage listeners to achieve their career goals by featuring experts and business leaders to provide job search assistance and career advancement.
May 27 2010
Free Memorial Day Weekend Events featuring the U.S. Navy Band, Educational Workshops & Navajo Dance Ceremony
Saturday, May 29
Rolling Thunder Rolls onto Pennsylvania Avenue!
Sunday, May 30
*To RSVP, email tkiland@navymemorial.org. For more information on the workshops, go to www.navymemorial.or/memorialday
Monday, May 31
United States Navy Memorial
Naval Heritage Center
701 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20004
www.navymemorial.org
Events are free and open to the public!
May 26 2010
Want to see more inspirational concerts like that one from Veterans Day 2009? Then tune in to CNBC on Memorial Day, Sunday, May 30, 5 pm Eastern (4 pm Central, 2 pm Pacific) to watch the TV broadcast of “Healing for the Nations”, by VA-National Medical Musical Group.
Check your own local listings for more information.
Sounds like a great way to celebrate those who serve!
May 26 2010
Thanks to our friends at Blue Star Families, you can now get the following deal:
“Operation Appreciation: Blue Star Museums” is an initiative to provide free access to museums by military personnel and their families from Memorial Day, May 31st to Labor Day, September 6, 2010.
Nearly 600 museums have agreed to participate, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Check out the full list of participating museums!
Questions about the program, contact Blue Star Families at museums@bluestarfam.org.
May 25 2010
Department of Veterans Affairs
Veterans Health Administration
Office of the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary
for Health for Policy and Planning Announces its:
The VHA’s Office of the Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health (ADUSH) for Policy and Planning is conducting the 2010 update of our national VHA telephone Survey of Enrollees. The purpose of the survey is to provide information that is incorporated into annual VHA projections of enrollment, utilization, and expenditures, as well as into a variety of high level VHA budget and policy related analyses.
The survey provides critical and essential information on Veteran utilization of health services, projecting the resources and services needed in VHA, and in developing our budget. The survey collects information on a random sample of 42,000 Veterans enrolled in the VA system, who participate in an approximately 15-30 minute telephone survey.
Each Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN) will have approximately 2,000 enrollees surveyed. The survey will be fully initiated the week of May 24, 2010. Interviewing will continue for 12 weeks.
Veteran enrollees selected for the survey will receive a letter that provides information about the survey and the contractor conducting the survey on behalf of the VA.
Your support in this survey will help ensure that we provide the best care possible, where it is needed, when it is needed, and by whom it is needed.
Previous survey reports are available at:
www4.va.gov/healthpolicyplanning/reports1.asp
VHA’s Office of the ADUSH for Policy and Planning internet Web site.
Thank you for your assistance in this project.
May 25 2010
File this pic in the “It’s funny because it’s true” category. Oh, and they’re putting out a call for photo submissions to MilSpouse magazine!
Have a photo that makes you LOL?
Share it with us so that we can share it with milspouses everywhere!
If we use your photo in a May newsletter, we’ll send you a Valentine’s Day DVD!
May 24 2010
Beginning with Memorial Day on May 31, a series of major events, ceremonies, special exhibits and lectures will be taking place at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans. The commemorative period will culminate with a weekend of special events June 5-6 to honor the 66th anniversary of the D-Day invasion at Normandy and to celebrate the Museum’s 10th anniversary.
The highlight of the weekend will be at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 5: A Gathering of the Greatest Generation, a special “roll-call” ceremony when veterans from each of the 50 states will stand together to be honored by the Museum and as a tribute to those who are no longer with us. The commemoration also will serve as a poignant reminder of how few of these eyewitnesses to history are still with us as a representative from each state will recite the number of veterans who served from their state and how many remain today.
Family members of deceased veterans can also attend in their honor. Registration is online at www.nationalww2museum.org.
Thomas Blakey, a volunteer at the Museum who parachuted into Normandy with the 101st Airborne on D-Day is just one of the veterans who will be in attendance. “It’s important to me that future generations know and understand what we went through in the war. Events like this are an opportunity for us to share our stories with people of all ages.”
Visitors can also experience the recently opened Solomon Victory Theater, featuring Beyond All Boundaries, a 4-D cinematic experience executive produced by Tom Hanks; the Stage Door Canteen, a recreation of a wartime entertainment venue; and the American Sector – a Chef John Besh restaurant. The 66th Anniversary weekend is sponsored by Chevron. For a complete schedule of the weekend’s events, visit www.nationalww2museum.org.
