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This week's Update from the Veterans of Foreign Wars!
More than 500 VFW and VFW Auxiliary members are arriving in the nation’s capital this weekend to urge their respective members of Congress to continue improving the programs and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Highlighting the annual legislative conference will be VFW National Commander B.J. Lawrence’s testimony Wednesday at 10 a.m. before a special joint hearing of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs in room G-50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Topping his list of VFW legislative priorities is passage of the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, a call for full congressional oversight over the implementation of the VA Mission Act of 2018 and the combined VA and Defense Department electronic health record initiative. Other priorities include improving burn pits research and accountability, eliminating the so-called “Widow’s Tax,” allowing military retirees to receive full retirement pay and disability pay without offset, and expanding and improving VA health care and research programs.
More than 500 VFW and VFW Auxiliary members are arriving in the nation’s capital this weekend to urge their respective members of Congress to continue improving the programs and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Highlighting the annual legislative conference will be VFW National Commander B.J. Lawrence’s testimony Wednesday at 10 a.m. before a special joint hearing of the House and Senate Committees on Veterans’ Affairs in room G-50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. Topping his list of VFW legislative priorities is passage of the Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act, a call for full congressional oversight over the implementation of the VA Mission Act of 2018 and the combined VA and Defense Department electronic health record initiative. Other priorities include improving burn pits research and accountability, eliminating the so-called “Widow’s Tax,” allowing military retirees to receive full retirement pay and disability pay without offset, and expanding and improving VA health care and research programs.
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COL John McClellan
SGT Mays - If you did not deploy to any combat zone or imminent danger area, then - no; unless you served 30 days or more in Korea in that time? Otherwise, you may not qualify for the VFW. However, some Posts have programs for non-combat Vets, locally. Without duty in a designated combat/imminent danger area though, you would not be eligible for national membership.
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