By Debbie Gregory. Service members didn’t need to be led by the hand to figure out where the chow hall was, or where the DFAC was, or where the galley was when they were on base. Their hunger forced them to follow their senses to locate where the food was. But it always helped when […]
By Debbie Gregory. Everyone has smartphones. Virtually everywhere you go, people can be seen tapping, swiping and fat-fingering their phones. Besides calling, texting, and emailing, phones are now equipped with the ability to do most anything through the use of Mobile Applications (Apps). Apps can be schedule planers, games, sounds, flashlights, consumer advice, diet trackers, […]
By Debbie Gregory. The competition in Sochi is not over yet. From March 7-16, the Paralympic games will be held in Sochi. In order to compete in the Paralympics, athletes must have one of the following disabilities: Amputee, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability, confinement to a wheelchair, blindness, or Les Autres (“other” disabilities that include: dwarfism, […]
By Debbie Gregory. There is an unspoken honor among Veterans that spans generations, branches and ethnicity. As an example, many of the non-profit organizations that serve and benefit the Veteran community are started by those who are Veterans themselves. But there are also instances that occur between individual Veterans that are just as big and […]
By Debbie Gregory. Early in 2013, officials at the Pentagon announced that it would lift the ban preventing women from serving in combat roles in the U.S. military. In the summer of 2013, representatives from each branch of the military assured Congress that they could open combat positions to females by 2016, without lowering existing […]
By Debbie Gregory. On November 5, 2009, at approximately 1330 local time, Major Nidal Malik Hasan entered Building 42003 at the Soldier Readiness Processing Center in Fort Hood, where he worked. The center provided routine medical treatment to soldiers immediately leaving on and returning from deployments to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hasan walked […]
By Debbie Gregory. Many members of the military and Veteran communities are familiar with the saying that being a military wife is the “toughest job” in the military. Usually, only fellow members of the community can see just how accurate that statement is. Dealing with deployments, often functioning as a single parent for months at […]
By Military Connection Staff Writer Joe Silva. Part 6 of Veteran Employment Series As I said in Part 5 of this series, the most intense component of an employment search is the interview. In that article, I mentioned ways to prepare for employment interviews that Veterans might be able to relate to, in an effort […]
By Debbie Gregory. The California Department of Veterans Affairs (CalVet) estimates that there are 1,749,137 Veterans in the state of California. The department estimates that approximately 9.3% of these Veterans are black*. That means there are roughly 163,480 black Veterans living in California. This community of Veterans is sizeable enough to have its own needs, […]
By Military Connection Staff Writer Joe Silva. “I’m just a football coach,” Mark “Coach” Soto told Military Connection staff writer Joe Silva. It is true that Coach Soto has been a football coach for 28 years. But there is more to Coach than his leadership on the gridiron. He is also the father of two […]
