Tag: veterans/retirees
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Broncos safeties aging, could pick up one in draft
he Department of Veterans Affairs is processing more than a million disability compensation claims a year, for veterans of every age and era, whether they served in wartime or during periods of relative calm. But that has not been enough to keep the claims backlog from rising through current wars and the expansion of compensation…
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Well is dry for NFL receivers
The 21st Space Wing will host a Pikes Peak area Retiree Appreciation Day and information fair on Saturday, July 28th from 8am to 2pm in The Club on Peterson AFB. This year’s theme is “Volunteers in our Community – Saying Thanks.” The opening ceremony is scheduled for 8 a.m., and a free continental breakfast, appetizers…
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Almost the death of the party
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2012 – The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding nearly $100 million in grants that will help approximately 42,000 homeless and at-risk veterans and their families, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced. The grants are going to 151 community agencies in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto…
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Top QBs could go in any order
Team Charleston leadership renamed the C-17 Aircrew Training Building after Halvorsen, June 15, with a dedication ceremony in honor of the legendary “Berlin Candy Bomber.”In 1948, World War II was over and its aftermath had left the German city of Berlin in ruins. Allied bombings had reduced the city’s once historical buildings to large, thin…
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Mature ’Melo is a leader in 3rd year
With the presidential election over, Department of Defense officials are expected to soon announce that military retirees and their dependents living more than 40 miles from a military treatment facility or base closure site will lose access to TRICARE Prime, the military’s managed care option.These beneficiaries would be expected to shift to TRICARE Standard, the…
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Avalanche’s new goalie begins practicing with team
HAMPTON, Va., Aug. 6, 2012 – Transitioning service members, military spouses and veterans attending hundreds of job fairs around the country like one held here Aug. 2 are finding themselves on the proverbial red carpet as employers pack arenas to add those closest to the armed forces to their payrolls. Job seekers maintained long lines…
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DENVER STILL IN CONTROL
WASHINGTON — Congress is eyeing not only the loose change that harried travelers leave behind at airport checkpoints but also the unclaimed clothing. Legislation awaiting House action would require the Transportation Security Administration to distribute unclaimed clothing to homeless or needy veterans and their families in addition to turning over unclaimed money to the USO…
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Falcons will rely heavily on experienced underclassmen
Troops to Teachers, a nonprofit that helps current and former military members transition into careers as public school teachers, honored a local Air Force veteran Friday. Michael Kloenne, a math teacher at Wasson High School and a 25-year Air Force veteran, was awarded the Armed Forces Communication Electronics Association’s $5,000 scholarship for new teachers at…
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Team gives Francis a hand
AURORA — Subcontractors on a $600 million project to build a new Veterans Affairs hospital in Aurora say they are not getting paid for their work and are asking Colorado’s congressional delegation to step in. The VA blames delays reviewing bills for the project. In a March letter signed by Colorado’s two U.S. senators and…
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Area players love softball and it shows with a title
RENO, Nev. — Timothy Hall never gave a thought to dying when he awoke in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center with his legs gone from a mortar blast in Afghanistan. He’d been there and done that — more than once. “The helicopter flight from the base I was at, they lost me three times,”…