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Veterans play: If you go
Evansville :: IN :: USA | 9 days ago
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Play about the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier When: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday Where: Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Coliseum, 300 Court St. Honoring Women Veterans Conference What: Fourth annual Honoring Women Veterans Conference, open to women veterans from
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Veterans Affairs open new women's clinic
California City :: CA :: USA | 27 days ago
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The new flagship clinic offers women veterans in the Sacramento region a place to come and have all of their health care needs met in a relaxing and re-energizing environment, officials said. The number of women veterans in Northern California who
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Wyo. female soldiers say they've faced combat
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 1 month ago
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Trouble was, the Pentagon restricted women from artillery, armor, infantry and other combat roles...After years of disparity between the job choices men and women had in the military, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the combat ban for women.
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Women veterans to be honored at Las Positas College
Livermore :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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Four notable female military veterans will visit Las Positas College on Thursday for the school's first "Honoring Women Veterans" event. The free program is being presented by the school's Veterans First program and will be held 1 to 3 p.m...
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Leaders offer help, awareness to female veterans in Allegheny County
Pittsburgh :: PA :: USA | 2 months ago
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And that, said Patricia Hayes, a top official with the Veterans Health Administration, may be why so few of them know about or seek care from her agency, which has an array of health care and social services geared to women. "Women don't talk of
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Grace After Fire to Receive Grant from Wounded Warrior Project
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 4 months ago
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January 21, 2013 Grace After Fire announced today that they will receive a grant in the amount of $10,000.00 from Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), a non-profit organization whose mission is to honor and empower Wounded Warriors. Grace
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Women Veterans Memorial in preliminary stages
New Bedford :: MA :: USA | 10 months ago
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Women veterans in the community aren't widely recognized but that could soon change. On Wednesday, the City Council Committee on Memorials and Dedications will meet to discuss the creation of a memorial dedicated to women veterans. The meeting will
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Mass. holds conference on needs of women veterans
Boston :: MA :: USA | 11 months ago
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The Massachusetts Department of Veterans' Services is hosting its annual conference for women veterans. The daylong event takes place Saturday at Bristol Community College in Fall River. The goal of the conference is to help provide women veterans
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A culture of coverup: rape in the ranks of the US military | Naomi Wolf
Baghdad :: Iraq | 12 months ago
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A US Marine sergeant in Helmand province, Afghanistan in 2010. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images A new documentary by director Kirby Dick, The Invisible War , about systemic rape of women in the military and the retaliations and coverups
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How can the VA better serve women veterans in Utah, U.S ?
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 12 months ago
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Chris Detrick The Salt Lake Tribune) Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki greets Tammy and Caleb New, and their baby daughter Alicia, at the Women Veterans Clinic in the George E...Tammy New was the first female Utah veteran to receive all
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