By Ryan Sears, The Gertsburg Law Firm Buying a home is the most expensive purchase most of us will ever make. For many veterans, the VA Home Loan remains a tremendous benefit of their service that allows them to buy a home with little or even no money down. Those same veterans, however, are sometimes […]
By Debbie Gregory. Marinna Rollins, an Army veteran who was accused of tying her dog to a tree and shooting it to death, all while videotaping it and later posting it on Facebook, has died of an apparent suicide. Rollins’ death came nine days before she was scheduled to appear in a Fayetteville, NC courtroom […]
By Debbie Gregory. President Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries prompted Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to announce that the company would hire 10,000 refugees in the 75 countries where it does business, with the effort starting in the United States. The announcement prompted a backlash on social media with several people using […]
By Debbie Gregory. A policy change can now help disabled veterans start a family. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is now covering the costs of in vitro fertilization (IVF) until the fall of 2018. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, even though thousands of servicemembers suffered genitourinary, blast, spinal and brain injuries that […]
By Debbie Gregory. The Military Residency Choice Act, introduced by San Diego Congressmen Darrell Issa and Rob Wittman, will ease the tax burden on military families by allowing them to establish one consistent state of residency. Active duty service members have always been able to keep one state as their state of legal residency (usually […]
By Debbie Gregory. Lee Anne Walters noticed that the tap water in her Flint, Michigan home had an orange tint to it. Her twin boys also had rashes. Doctors confirmed one of the boys was showing signs of stunted growth. The Walters were living in Flint because Lee Anne’s husband, Dennis Walters, was stationed there. […]
Make time to make memories! It sounds so easy, doesn’t it? But Armed Forces Vacation Club knows how difficult it can be for military families to find time to take a vacation. So when the stars (and schedules) align and you’re able to carve out a week or even just a few days of time, […]
By Debbie Gregory. In what would have been almost unheard of in past decades, a new survey of military families revealed that a majority of active-duty military families — 57 percent of them — said they were unlikely to recommend that their own children join the service. In the past, military families tended to remain […]
By Debbie Gregory. Nevada’s public-private partnership to help meet the legal needs of the state’s active duty military personnel, reservists, National Guard soldiers and veterans has assisted more than 900 individual in its first year, according to the state’s Attorney General. Nevada’s @EASE program provides access to pro bono civil legal services for qualified service […]
By Debbie Gregory. Up until recently, Tricare did not cover hearing aids for retirees, Tricare for Life and Tricare Reserve Select users. But a recent policy change reclassifies a certain type of bone-implanted hearing aid — Auditory Osseointegrated Implant (AOI) Devices — as a “prosthetic,” opening up coverage of the implant to all Tricare beneficiaries. […]
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