Barry Searle, director of the Legion’s National Security/Foreign Relations Division, is meeting with the new Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Searle and Sarah Farnsworth are discussing ways of streamlining communications between the Legion and the Department of Defense.
A Legion System Worth Saving inspection team is spending the week examining facilities and interviewing administrators and staff at the Denver VA Medical Center. Task force teams travel nationwide throughout the year to help assure VA medical facilities offer the best care possible for military veterans.
Legion D.C. staffers are attending at press conference announcing the Department of Veterans Affairs’ fiscal 2012 budget request. VA’s budget plan is formulated in part with the assistance and guidance of the Legion.
A Legion System Worth Saving inspection team is spending the week examining facilities and interviewing administrators and staff at the Denver VA Medical Center. Task force teams travel nationwide throughout the year to help assure VA medical facilities offer the best care possible for military veterans.
The Legion is present at the “Veterans Campaign” workshop at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The two-day event is dedicated to veterans who wish to continue their national service by running for political office. Speakers include several Congressmen who are military veterans, prominent military press representatives and Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, an Iraq War veteran and son of Vice President Joe Biden.
The Legion is present at the “Veterans Campaign” workshop at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The two-day event is dedicated to veterans who wish to continue their national service by running for political office. Speakers include several Congressmen who are military veterans, prominent military press representatives and Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, an Iraq War veteran and son of Vice President Joe Biden.
Jeff Steele, assistant director of the Legislative Division, is attending House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the impact of political developments in Egypt and Lebanon on U.S. foreign policy.
Legion staff is attending a House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing concerning JPMorgan Chase’s alleged violations of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. An executive vice president of the mammoth bank is being questioned about unlawful practices that led to some active-duty servicemembers wrongly losing their homes.
Jeff Steele, assistant director of the Legislative Division, is attending House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on the impact of political developments in Egypt and Lebanon on U.S. foreign policy.
Joe Sharpe, director of the Legion’s Economic Division, is one of five panelists participating in an ecologically oriented conference concerning veterans unemployment today. Moderated by the Sierra Club, the “Easing the Transition Home for Veterans through Good, Green Jobs” panel discussion is concentrating on employment challenges faced by veterans and solutions offered by emerging opportunities in the “green economy.”
