by Mark Wasserbauer | Aug 16, 2015 | News
The Olde Glory Coffee Company Check out a new partner of the National Guard’s Enlisted Association … Olde Glory Coffee. Olde Glory Coffee would like to give a GREAT BIG welcome to our newest partners … The Enlisted Association of the National Guard...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Aug 7, 2015 | Legislative
Ryan Silverberg, Senior Legislative Assistant to Congressman John Kline (MN – 2nd District) send MNGEA a recap and status update regarding some House bills affecting veterans. See his email message below …. “As Congress prepares for its Fall agenda,...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Aug 6, 2015 | Auxiliary, State Association
MNGEA Members – By now, you may have received an EANGUS Data Verification card in the mail asking you to contact the EANGUS home office to update your information. The cards look like the attachments below. I have received several folks asking the...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Aug 3, 2015 | Legislative
According to the Congressional Record, Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., jointly with Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., has introduced S. 1870, the Veterans Entrepreneurial Transition (VET) Act of 2015 which would create a 3-year test (pilot program) to allow up to 250 qualified...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Jul 30, 2015 | National Guard, Uncategorized
In this undated file photo Master Sgt. Darryl Sterling tosses unserviceable uniform items into a burn pit at Balad Air Base, Iraq. The Santa Fe New Mexican | Jul 27, 2015 | by Phaedra Haywood Hundreds of soldiers who’ve come home from wars in Iraq and...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Jul 28, 2015 | National Guard, Veterans
By Patricia Kime, Staff writer 3:35 p.m. EDT July 22, 2015 Smoke billows in from all sides on a soldier at Joint Base Anaconda in Balad, Iraq, in 2004 as he tries to manage the piles of trash in the base’s open-air burn pit. A new VA health registry is...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Jul 28, 2015 | Legislative, National Guard
This topic is getting wide support across the State from many local Legislators. If you are around the St Paul area and would like to attend, here is the information for the committee debate. HEARING ANNOUNCEMENT Committee: Veterans Affairs Division Date/Time:...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Jul 28, 2015 | News, Veterans
Posted: Jul 24, 2015 12:30 AM CDT … <em class=”wnDate”>Friday, July 24, 2015 1:30 AM EDT</em>Updated: Jul 24, 2015 12:46 AM CDT By Jonathan Lowe PHOENIX...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Jul 28, 2015 | National Guard, News
(Reserve Recruitment personnel stand outside at Highway 153 and Lee Highway on Thursday, July 16, 2015, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Former senior military officers are urging caution in the wake of calls to arm domestic servicemembers following last week’s deadly...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Jul 22, 2015 | Benefits, Veterans
Vets can pack away their DD-214 forms … <img src=”http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/congress/vx2j6n/picture27963274/ALTERNATES/FREE_960/BUCHANAN-070615b” alt=”U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan, a Republican from...