The Walt Disney Company is looking to hire 1,000 veterans over the next three years. Company President and CEO Bob Iger announced the company-wide initiative called “Heroes Work Here” on Tuesday, March 13th. There is much more to the new program than just hiring vets. Disney will hold career fairs, offer training and provide volunteer opportunities. And don’t think you have to head to Orlando just to work at Disney. The company owns ESPN and ABC. Here is a full list of the companies in the Disney family. Want to make your dreams come true? Check out the Disney Careers…
Browsing: Veteran issues
Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a stop in Manchester, N.H., at a local restaurant where he met Vietnam veteran Bob Garon. The conversation started off with Romney inquiring about Garon’s service and thanking him for it. Then the 63-year-old Garon asked his question for Romney: “New Hampshire right now has some legislation kicking around about a repeal for the same-sex marriage. And all I need is a ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Do you support the repeal?” Watch how the rest of the conversation goes in the video below. What’s your take on Romney? Or any Republican candidate? [HTML1]
Stephen Colbert has always taken time to cheer up and support the troops, even traveling to Baghdad, donning a universal camouflage pattern suit and declaring victory in the Iraq War in 2009. And last week he did it again, only this time he had some very pointed criticism for those in Congress who have supported cutting Tricare benefits for veterans as a way of reducing America’s debt burden. During his regular segment “The Word,” Colbert called on the nation’s “1 percent” to sacrifice more for the good of the country. “Everybody’s talking about it,” Colbert said. “There is a tiny…
While Outside the Wire can’t be the depository for the endless supply of “lost and found” trinkets, we have to give a shout out to Dave Karney. He found this lighter in the late ’60s at Fort Dix, and held on to it in the hopes of uniting it with its owner or the next of kin. Now that is how you look out for a brother soldier! If you can help Dave bring his 43-year search to an end, e-mail him at Fatheroffor@aol.com.
The Associated Press is reporting that an AWOL Fort Campbell soldier scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan has entered a mental health treatment program instead. Spc. Jeff Hanks went AWOL last year while on mid-tour leave from Afghanistan. He turned himself in on Veterans Day. Iraq Veterans Against the War took up his cause. In a press release, the group described Hanks as an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran “suffering from symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and likely Traumatic Brain Injury. He sought and was denied treatment on two military bases before refusing to redeploy and going Absent Without Official Leave…
The remains of a soldier from World War I have been identified and are coming home with full military honors – some 92 years after Pvt. Henry A. Weikel paid the ultimate sacrifice for freedom. The Defense Department’s POW/Missing Personnel Office made the announcement today. The news is not likely to make headlines across the nation. Perhaps there will be some ink given in Mt. Carmel, Penn., which was the 28-year-old’s hometown. But we at Outside the Wire commend the service of Weikel, and a military that works to ensure its fallen veterans are brought home. Weikel was part of the…
Our friends at the Associated Press are reporting that the ABC television show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” will be helping a soldier severely wounded in the Nov. 5, 2009, Fort Hood shooting. Staff Sgt. Patrick Zeigler returned home from Iraq two weeks prior to the shooting. He was preparing to attend Officer Candidate School when he was hit four times in the attack. He suffered a nearly fatal wound to his head, according to the report. A bullet shattered the right side of his skull. The metal and bone fragments were too small to be removed, so doctors had to…
Frank Buckles turned 109 in February. And he is spending this Veteran’s Day fighting an injustice nearly 100 years in the making. Buckles, the nation’s last living World War I vet, said today that he wants Congress to create a memorial that honors the 5 million Americans who served in the First Great War. More than 116,000 were killed and another 205,000 wounded. Anyone with a better-than-average knowledge of Washington D.C. knows a memorial already exists. But look at it next to the World War II memorial, and see if you think the earlier vets got the shaft:
The Army Warrior Transition Command took feedback from nearly 1,900 wounded, ill and injured soldiers and veterans to build 30 pages of a comprehensive benefits and informational resource for more than 16,000 wounded, ill and injured soldiers and veterans. Check it out here.
It is good to see that the 111th Congress is focused not only on the debacle at Arlington National Cemetery, but on the proper respect due to all deceased veterans. Dozens of bills have been introduced that would affect burial benefits and national cemeteries. They include:
