RSSVetJobs Veteran Eagle
Issue 10:11, Sunday, November 1, 2009
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The Veteran Eagle is a newsletter for veterans, transitioning military, their family members and friends and supporters of VetJobs. Feel free to forward the newsletter to veterans and friends.
This month’s Veteran Eagle is sponsored by: Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve and TECHEXPO Top Secret
Contents:
1. Message from the Top
2. Companies Honoring Active Military & Veterans on Veterans Day
3. Call to Action Assisting Student Veterans
4. AMVETS DVD Task Force
5. Board of Veterans Appeals Expanded
6. VA Links Parkinson’s to Agent Orange
7. VA Staffs Office for Survivors of Veterans
8. Droves of Recruits to Ease Burden on Troops
9. Veterans Curation Project
10. Flag Etiquette
11. National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of October 27, 2009
12. Significant Events this Month in Military History
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1. Message from the Top
Happy 10th Birthday to VetJobs! As of 11:00 AM on November 11, VetJobs will have been serving the employment needs of transitioning military, veterans, wounded warriors, disabled veterans and their family members for ten years!. During that time, millions of veterans have used the site as a resource for guidance on how to conduct a job search, interviewing, career advice, referral to other appropriate career sites, to find military related job fairs, and most of all, to apply to thousands of military friendly employers who want to hire transitioning military, veterans, wounded warriors, disabled veterans and their family members!
So many new items came with Version 4.0 it would take many pages to describe everything VetJobs offers today. Recent changes include the expansion of the veteran and spouse resource pages that are full of new information. A frequently used tool is the Career Advisor, a career assessment test from one of the country’s leading testing firms, Candidate Resources, Inc (CRI), of Grand Prairie, TX. The test would normally cost $250, but CRI has donated thousands of tests to veterans and their family members. CRI is a true supporter of the military!
VetJobs is pleased to be sponsored and partially owned by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. In fact, VetJobs been endorsed by more veteran service organizations than any other site. VetJobs has been endorsed and has alliances with the Vietnam Veterans of America, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, the Association of the United States Navy, the Veterans of Modern Warfare, the Student Veterans of America, Hope4Heroes, and various intelligence related organizations. Being recognized and used as their job board by so many important veteran service organizations has kept VetJobs in the forefront of assisting veterans who need help! Visit the VetJobs Alliances page to see the many companies and non-profits with whom VetJobs has become aligned over the last ten years. Additionally, VetJobs materials are now used in state and federal Department of Labor offices, DOD Transition Assistance Program and Army Career & Alumni Program offices worldwide, as well as Veteran Administration offices.
Due to VetJobs’ leading position in the industry, VetJobs is regularly cited in the press, radio and TV. VetJobs has been highlighted in USA Today, regularly quoted by Military Times, various news services, and was on the CBS 60 Minutes program regarding USERRA last November.
Due to the impact VetJobs has had in the employment market, VetJobs has been elected to the Board of Governors of the International Association of Employment Web Sites, been appointed to the Small Business Council of the US Chamber of Commerce and has been subpoenaed to testify before the President’s Commission on the National Guard and Reserve. VetJobs has testified before Congress and worked with members of Congress regarding veteran and employment issues on many occasions. VetJobs has developed a very strong national reputation for being a major advocate for transitioning military, veterans, wounded warriors, disabled veterans and their family members.
Importantly, over the last ten years VetJobs has come to be recognized by the industry evaluators as THE leading military related job board on the Internet. VetJobs awards include: CareerXRoads Top Site; seven year recipient of AIRS Top Recruiting Site; six year recipient of WEDDLE’s prestigious User’s Choice Award; four year recipient of Workforce Management’s Top 10 Recruiting Site; and was the only military job board selected by Reader’s Digest in its list of 18 top sites! Notably, BusinessWeek is running an article about VetJobs which identifies VetJobs as the leading military job board in the November 16 issue, which comes out November 7 in time for Veterans Day. No other military related job board has received these prestigious recognitions!
It has been an exciting ten years. But the bottom line for the staff at VetJobs and our veteran service organization partners is that millions of veterans and their family members have come to the site seeking and receiving help and guidance on their job search. Thousands over the last ten years have taken advantage of the ability to call and get personal job counseling. More importantly, tens of thousands have found jobs applying to the employers who use VetJobs. And many more were able to get good jobs elsewhere due to the career advice, guidance and referrals to other sources and employers they received from the VetJobs site, their calls and email inquiries. Our mission is to help our brothers, sisters and their family members get jobs, and over the last ten years VetJobs has met that mission!
It is you, the transitioning military, veterans, wounded warriors, disabled veterans and your family members who have made VetJobs what it is today. Because of your service and commitment to our country, VetJobs, our partner veteran service organizations and alliance partners are committed to serving your needs in finding quality employment.
Thank you for serving. I and the staff of VetJobs look forward to continue serving you in the coming years.
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In addition to VetJobs birthday, on November 11 we celebrate Veterans Day. Originally known as Armistice Day, it was created by an Act of Congress on May 13, 1938. It set the 11th of November of each year as a legal holiday to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and be known as Armistice Day, which was set in remembrance of the end of World War I. The Armistice was signed at 11:00 AM on the 11th day of the 11th month. In 1954, after World War II had required the greatest military mobilization in the history of the United States and following the Korean War, the 83rd Congress amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word Armistice and inserting the word Veteran. With the approval of this legislation (Public Law 380) on June 1, 1954, November 11th became known as Veterans Day, a day to honor American veterans of all wars. We will forever be in the debt of our veterans as they are the guarantors of our freedoms. Let us honor them accordingly.
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On November 10 we celebrate the Marine Corps’ 234th birthday! If you see a Marine, say Semper Fi and Happy Birthday! To view an outstanding Marine Corps Birthday message, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Bicfc9dp0
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November is the month we celebrate Thanksgiving. The tradition of the Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving is steeped in myth and legend. Few people realize that the Pilgrims did not celebrate Thanksgiving, though some of their descendants later made a “Forefather’s Day” that usually occurred on December 21 or 22. Several Presidents, including George Washington, made one-time Thanksgiving holidays. In 1827, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale began lobbying Presidents for the instatement of Thanksgiving as a national holiday, but her lobbying was unsuccessful until 1863 when Abraham Lincoln finally made it a national holiday with his 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation. Now Thanksgiving is the fourth Thursday of November. This was set by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939 and was approved by Congress in 1941, who changed it from Abraham Lincoln’s designation as the last Thursday in November, which could occasionally end up being the fifth Thursday and hence too close to Christmas for businesses.
As you celebrate Veterans Day and Thanksgiving, please remember our troops who are serving in defense of our country in Afghanistan, Iraq and many other overseas locations. For many of the troops overseas, their holidays will be celebrated at the tip of the spear as they continue the fight in the War on Terrorism.
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This past week I attended an incredible roundtable meeting of organizations working on the local level to assist wounded warriors. The roundtable is being run under the auspices of the CSRA Wounded Warrior Care Project. Executive Director Laurie Ott has brought together federal agencies, local schools, non-profits, politicians and businesses that can assist wounded warriors at the Eisenhower Army Medical Center. Importantly, she has created a forum for organizations to exchange information. Some of these organizations did not know the others existed or what they offered. As a result, the support for our wounded warriors in the August area is greatly enhanced! This is a program that needs to be duplicated nationwide. See Article 9 below to learn of a program that the CSRA Wound Warrior Care Project is assisting. To learn more about what the CSRA Wounded Warrior Care Project is doing please visit http://www.csrawwcp.org/, or contact Laurie Ott at laurie.ott@csrawwcp.org.
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On the economic front, the unemployment rate in September climbed to 9.8% while the unemployment rate for all veterans rose to 8.9%. The unemployment rate for many younger veterans who participate in the Guard and Reserve is exceptionally high due to DOD’s two year call up policy and heavy use of the Guard and Reserve to prosecute the wars. Too many employers will not now hire as a new employee someone who is active in the Guard and Reserve as the candidate will be gone for one to two years. Employers cannot run their businesses with employees gone for such extended periods.
The economy and what is happening to the job market seems to be on everyone’s mind. For many, it is a brutal job market. Yet even with 15 million people looking for work, many employers cannot find enough qualified people for good-paying career jobs. Economists say the main problem is an unequal match between available work and people qualified to do it. The unequal match will make it harder for the unemployment rate to drop down to a healthier level.
Millions of jobs with attractive pay and benefits that once drew legions of workers to the auto industry, construction, Wall Street and other sectors are gone, many forever. Many jobs moved to other areas of the country, but the emplyees cannot afford to move. And the people who lost those jobs generally lack the right experience for new positions popping up in healthcare, energy, biotechnology, information technology and engineering. Many of these specialized jobs were hard to fill even before the recession. But during downturns, recruiters tend to become even choosier and less willing to take financial risks on untested workers.
According to labor analysts, even during this recession companies are having a difficult time finding qualified accountants, health care workers, software sales representatives, actuaries, data analysts, physical therapists, morticians, pharmacists, and electrical engineers. In this last sentence note again the use of the descriptive adjective, qualified. Several pundants complain that there are six people for every job opening, the highest ratio on government records since 2000. They get these ratios by dividing the total number of unemployed by the total number of estimated jobs available. As the pundants generally are pushing a political or economic agenda, they disregard the fact that employers do not hire a candidate just to fill a job. Rather, employers hire “qualified” candidates who are capable of performing specified activities! That is the real world.
Recently there have been news reports that the recession is over or nearly over, and it may be in some areas. I use the word area to mean both geographic as well as industry sectors. But the economy is not one big monolith that moves uniformly. While some parts of the economy and sectors are in recovery others are still heading down. The bottom line is the U.S. economy is still shedding jobs and it is expected that the unemployment rate will rise above 10% in the months to come. While some have referred to this recovery as a jobless recovery, I prefer to use the term “less jobs recovery” as unlike the last recession, many employers are still hiring, but at a greatly reduced rate. There are jobs available, but the competition is fierce even if you are qualified.
What is disconcerting in this recession is the credit markets have not yet recovered. Small-business lending and consumer lending have contracted, if not completely stopped in many areas. And mortgage lending is being entirely underwritten by the government, meaning more taxes to those left working. I believe the lack of lending to small businesses is perhaps the largest cause for concern in this economy because small businesses are and always have been the engines of innovation and job creation that brought America out of past recessions. Small businesses account for the largest proportion of real employment in the United States.
I hear from many employers of all sizes that they know they need to hire new employees because the ones left in the business since the many lay-offs are being over worked. But employers, especially small to medium size companies, are hesitant to start hiring in the current political climate. They are concerned about the ever expanding federal government and who is going to pay for the expanding government; about the way the leaders of the current Congress are attempting to raise taxes in the middle of a deep recession; about the threats of mandatory increased health care costs; and about the lack of access to capital. They are concerned about the way the federal government is now intervening and taking control of major industries and the financial system, thus destroying capitalism, our free enterprise system, and potentially leading the United States into socialism which has failed miserably in Europe.
On top of all this, the United States has one more potential major shock to the economic system coming around the start of January when the commercial real estate sub-prime market is expected to hit. No one seems to know if it will be as bad as the residential sub-prime market collapse, but all agree it will hurt the economy in a major way.
If you are a student of history, you will remember that the Great Depression lasted ten years in the United States, but only about four years in Europe. Unfortunately, the current administration and Congress are repeating many of the same errors today that kept America in the Great Depression for so long during 1930’s. If you are concerned about these events, tell your members of congress that their behavior and activities are not helping the economy recover, making it harder for our veterans and family members to find quality jobs.
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Finally, we welcome the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) as a new sponsor of our newsletters. Please read their message below. If your company has not signed a Statement of Support, then have your appropriate company representative visit www.esgr.mil and sign up immediately! Supporting our National Guard and Reserve is critical during this time of war. Your support is appreciated!
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As always, if there is anything we at VetJobs can do for you, please do not hesitate to call or email.
Remember, Freedom Is Never Free – Support Our Armed Forces and Veterans
Best regards,
Ted Daywalt
President
/—-November Veteran Eagle sponsor is Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve—-\
Nominate Your Employer for the 2010 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award!
It is only possible for our National Guard and Reserve members to perform at their best with the support of loved ones, friends, neighbors and, particularly, employers. Thousands of employers across the nation employ National Guard and Reserve members, fully aware that at any moment they may be called to serve. And when this happens, both the employee and employer face challenges. We are grateful for the many employers who remain patriotically steadfast in support of their military employees, both financially and emotionally, going well beyond the law. Supportive employers allow service members to perform their duties while alleviating concerns about their jobs and loved ones back home.
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a Department of Defense agency, invites nominations for the 2010 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award Freedom Award recipients support their Guard and Reserve employees and their families in important ways, both large and small. Past recipients have provided differential pay during deployments, continued insurance benefits and sent comfort items in care packages. Some of the most valued assistance has been the support extended to deployed service members’ families. When one National Guard member was deployed, his employer filled his seat at his sons’ sports games. After another service member’s family hit hard times during a deployment, his employer stacked gifts under the family’s Christmas tree. And during the deployment of a single father, his employer sent his daughters off to school each morning with a wake up phone call. Any employer supportive of its National Guard and Reserve employees or their families is eligible for Freedom Award nomination. Past recipients of the award have ranged from a small family-owned farm in Iowa to large corporations, including Chrysler and Microsoft, to public sector employers like the City of Austin, Texas. The 2010 recipients will be announced in the spring and honored in September at the 15th annual Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award ceremony in Washington, D.C. Recipients of the 2009 award met with President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and received their awards at a ceremony with the keynote given by Dr. Visit www.freedomaward.mil/nominate.aspx? to submit a nomination. \—–Please visit your November Veteran Eagle sponsor Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve at www.esgr.mil—–/ 2. Companies Honoring Active Military & Veterans on Veterans Day Many restaurants, attractions and retail establishments now honor veterans (and some their families) on Veterans Day or days surrounding Veterans Day. Here is a list of those of which VetJobs is aware offering special deals. Requirements vary, but you will need one of the following: DD-214, military ID card, driver’s license indicating you were military, military leave and earnings statement, veterans service organization membership card or photograph in uniform or wearing uniform that identifies you as a veteran to participate with these great companies who are honoring veterans. As a general rule, when you are shopping or traveling, ask if the store, restaurant or hotel has a military discount. You will be surprised at how many offer these discounts. Enjoy and bon appetite! -Free Applebee’s meals on Veterans Day -McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants, Sunday, November 8 http://www.mccormickandschmicks.com/featured-promotion/Veterans-Appreciation-Day.aspx -Golden Corral Military Appreciation, Monday, November 16, http://www.goldencorral.com/military/# -Knotts Berry Farm, November 1 through November 26 -Lowes – 10% off on Veterans Day -Home Depot – 10% discounts -Disney’s Armed Forces Salute at Disney Parks -Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks – free park admission /—November Veteran Eagle sponsor is TECHEXPO Top Secret—-\ TECHEXPO Top Secret’s next job fairs are: 11/17, TECHEXPO Top Secret Career Fair, BWI Marriott, 1743 West Nursery Road, Baltimore, MD, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Pre-register at http://www.techexpoUSA.com/index_VJS.cfm 11/18, TECHEXPO Top Secret Career Fair, Ritz Carlton Tysons Corner, 1700 Tysons Boulevard, McLean, VA, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Pre-register at http://www.techexpoUSA.com/index_VJS.cfm Interview with leading government contractors. Full schedule of event details, & pre-registration at http://www.techexpoUSA.com/index_VJS.cfm. For professionals with active security clearance only. Free admission \—–Please visit your November Veteran Eagle sponsor TECHEXPO Top Secret at www.techexpousa.com—-/ 3. Call to Action Assisting Student Veterans VFW National Commander Tradewell has issued a ‘call to action’ by asking VFW Posts nationwide to mobilize their resources on behalf of student veterans and assist those needing transportation to a VA regional office or college campus. “Today, I urge every VFW Post to reach-out to their respective student veteran communities. One easy way to do this is to first determine if there is a Student Veterans of America (SVA) chapter on campus. The SVA has a chapter locator that can be accessed by going to their website: http://www.studentveterans.org/chapters/chapterlocator.php and makes it easy to contact the student group and offer assistance. Since one of the SVA’s primary goals is to connect with groups with resources from outside their campuses to help meet the common needs of student veterans, they can help coordinate with VFW Posts and students needing transportation assistance. Otherwise, I encourage any VFW Post with a college campus anywhere in their vicinity, to contact the campus veteran’s representative or Dean’s office to help facilitate assistance.” 4. AMVETS DVD Task Force AMVETS Task Force DVD is an appeal to patriotic Americans to donate their new and used DVDs which will then be shipped to our fighting men and women overseas. For more information, visit http://www.amvets.org/taskforcedvd 5. Board of Veterans Appeals Expanded Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki announced the addition of four new Veterans Law Judges to the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (BVA), which will enable the board to increase the number of cases being decided. BVA is an appeals body where veterans, their dependents, or their survivors can go when they’re not satisfied with decisions about claims for benefits administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. The board currently has 60 Veterans Law Judges. VA provides a pamphlet entitled, How Do I Appeal, to anyone who isn’t satisfied with the results of a benefits claim that was decided by a VA regional office, medical center or another local VA office. For more information about BVA or to download a copy of the pamphlet, visit VA’s Gateway to VA Appeals webpage at www.va.gov/vbs/bva. 6. VA Links Parkinson’s to Agent Orange Stars and Stripes reports Veterans Affairs officials added three new illnesses to the list of diagnoses connected to Agent Orange, allowing quicker health care claims for Vietnam veterans suffering from Parkinson’s disease, hairy cell leukemia and ischemic heart disease. The move follows a study by the nongovernmental Institute of Medicine. The group has been studying the effects of Agent Orange since the early 1990s and this summer suggested a link between those diseases and the toxic Agent Orange chemicals. In a statement, VA secretary Eric Shinseki said the additions bring to 12 the number of “presumed” sicknesses linked to Agent Orange. Others include prostate cancer and Hodgkin’s disease. VA officials said that up to 250,000 veterans may benefit from the latest change. In a statement, Veterans of Foreign Wars national commander Thomas Tradewell Sr., a Vietnam veteran, called the additions a significant change and praised Shinseki for the move. 7. VA Staffs Office for Survivors of Veterans VA News service reports that to strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs programs for survivors of the nation’s veterans and service members, the VA has staffed an office to serve as their advocate, with a charter that includes creating or modifying programs, benefits and services. The office serves as the primary adviser to the secretary on all issues affecting the survivors and dependents of deceased veterans and service members. It will monitor VA’s delivery of benefits to survivors, make appropriate referrals to VA offices for survivors seeking benefits, and explore innovative ways of reaching survivors who are not receiving the VA benefits for which they are eligible. VA benefits for eligible survivors include educational assistance, home-loan guaranties, health-care insurance, and dependency and indemnity compensation. Known as DIC, this is a monthly payment to the survivors of some people who die on active duty and some seriously disabled veterans. The establishment of this office was authorized in the Veterans Benefits Improvement Act of 2008. For more information, call 800-827-1000 or visit the VA Web site at www.va.gov/. 8. Droves of Recruits to Ease Burden on Troops The U.S. military reported the biggest surge in recruits since the end of the draft – an increase that likely will relieve pressure on troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan by allowing them to spend more time at home between overseas deployments. The U.S. Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force sent about 169,000 new recruits for training in the fiscal year that ended September 30. The Pentagon said this was the highest figure since 1973, the first year of the modern all-volunteer force. The numbers also exceed the Pentagon’s goal for the year of 164,000 new service members. 9. Veterans Curation Project The mission of the Veterans Curation Project (VCP) is to provide wounded veterans with job training through the rehabilitation and preservation of archaeological collections owned or administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. On October 20, 2009, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Center of Expertise (CX) for Curation and Management of Archeological Collections (CMAC), St. Louis District, conducted a public opening of a groundbreaking new project. At the VCP laboratory in Augusta, GA, Iraq and Afghanistan returnees along with Vietnam era veterans are taking part in archaeological curation training under the Wounded Warrior Care Project. Two additional laboratories will open in St. Louis, MO, and Washington, DC. The skills obtained by the Wounded Warriors participating in the VCP are readily transferable to jobs in health care, police, fire, administrative, government and engineering career fields. The Augusta VCP, working in collaboration with the CSRA Wounded Warrior Care Project, the VA and the Georgia Department of Labor will assist VCP participants in job preparation and placement. To learn more about this exciting new program, contact “Sonny” Trimble at Michael.K.Trimble@usace.army.mil. 10. Flag Etiquette The “Star Spangled Banner” has been designated as the national anthem of the United States of America since 1931. During the playing of the anthem, when the flag is displayed, persons not in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with their right hand over their heart. Those in uniform should begin saluting the flag at the first note of the music and hold the salute until the last note of the anthem is played. Veterans in civilian clothes have the option of saluting or placing their hand over their heart. Those veterans wearing veteran service organization caps or uniforms of other patriotic organizations should salute. 11. National Guard and Reserve Mobilized as of October 27, 2009 The total number currently on active duty from the Army National Guard and Army Reserve is 108,131; Navy Reserve, 6,432; Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve, 13,315; Marine Corps Reserve, 8,146; and the Coast Guard Reserve, 683. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel who have been activated to 136,707, including both units and individual augmentees. A cumulative roster of all National Guard and Reserve personnel who are currently activated may be found at http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Oct2009/d20091027ngr.pdf 12. Significant Events this Month in Military History 1775 – Continental Congress establishes two battalions of Marines. Samuel Nicholas was appointed “Captain of Marines” on 28 November 1775, and promoted to major on June 25, 1776. Because of his senior status among other Marine officers of the Revolution, he is numbered as the first Commandant. 1775 – Americans under General Richard Montgomery capture the British fort of Saint Johns. (War of Independence) 1861 – The Confederate raider Nashville captured and burned the Union clipper ship Harvey Birch in the Atlantic Ocean. (Civil War) 1864 – Union General W.T. Sherman began his march to the sea from Atlanta, GA, in an effort to cut the Confederacy in two. (Civil War) 1865 – Dr. Mary E. Walker, the first female surgeon in the Union Army, is presented with the Medal of Honor, the first woman to receive that award. 1910 – First airplane flight from the deck of a ship. 1917 – American troops were first engaged in fighting attacking German troops near the Rhine-Marne Canal in France. (World War I) 1918 – World War I ends at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month with the signing of an Armistice. (World War I) 1942 – Operation Torch begins with Allied landings in northwest Africa (World War II). 1943 – U.S. Marines landed on Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands, one of the bloodiest campaigns waged by American forces against the Japanese in the Pacific (World War II). 1965 – Battle of Chu Pon-ia Drang River, Vietnam. U.S. 1st Calvary fought North Vietnamese regulars for four days (Vietnam War). 1967 – American troops broke a North Vietnamese assault at Loc Ninh, near the Cambodian border (Vietnam War). 1968 – Battle of Nui Chom Mountain. The 4th Bn, 31st Infantry, 196th Inf Bde fought and destroyed the 21st NVA Regiment on Nui Chom Mountain southwest of Da Nang, Vietnam in a fierce six day battle. Cpl Michael Crescenz received the Medal of Honor as they fought inch by inch up the steep mountain. (Vietnam War) 1979 – Iranian militants seized the US Embassy in Tehran, held 65 Americans hostage. 1999 – VetJobs went live on the Internet. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * VetJobs Veterans make the best employees! VetJobs is an appropriate employment service delivery system for EEOC, VEVRAA/JVA and OFCCP compliance support! Seven year recipient of AIRS Top Recruiting Site VetJobs is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business
These seemingly small acts have a significant impact on the lives of National Guard and Reserve members and their families.
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