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Utah Department of Veterans & Military Affairs Featured on Military Makeover

Check out this episode of Military Makeover: Operation Career, we’re bringing you three remarkable stories about veterans who have transitioned into the civilian workforce with new and exciting job opportunities. We’re traveling to Salt Lake City, Utah to speak with Gary Harter, the executive director of the Utah Department of Veteran and Military Affairs (UDVMA).[…]

Southern UT Veterans Benefits Open House 2019

Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs, in conjunction with State and Federal partners, will be holding a benefits open house in the Southern Utah Veterans Home in the multi-purpose room in Ivins UT. Com visit with VA experts and learn about resources and opportunities to improve the lives of our Southern Utah Veterans. Southern[…]

Honoring Utah’s Women Veterans 2019

The State of Utah Department of Veterans & Military Affairs in conjunction with The Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Veterans Benefits Administration and other great partners invites you to join us in celebrating Utah’s Women Veterans and those women who have served in the Armed Forces. The ceremony will begin at 6:00 PM and go until[…]

Veterans Voice January 2019

First off, Happy New Year everyone! It has become our tradition, for the January issue of “The Voice”, to look back at the last year and update everyone on events of the last year. Inside this issue you will find all of our regularly featured segments, plus information on the successful endeavors of the past[…]

Veterans Survey 2019

The State of Utah Department of Veterans & Military Affairs has released a new survey in Utah for veterans, military, and family members of those serving or who have served. To that end, we designed a survey that should help us ensure that the right services are available at the right time for the right[…]

36th Annual National Veterans Wheelchair Games

The Games Co-Presented by the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Paralyzed Veterans of America, the National Veterans Wheelchair Games is a rehabilitation and wheelchair sports program empowering Veterans with spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, amputations and other neurological injuries to live more active and healthy lives through wheelchair sports and recreation. Each summer, Veterans[…]

5 Things Every Veteran Should Do…

1. Get a copy of my DD214 (Release from Active Duty Service Document). If your home address upon your release from active duty service was within the State of Utah, then the Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs may have a copy of your DD214 in our archive. You can send a[…]

VA Health Care and the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

The Basics: If you are enrolled in VA health care, you don’t need to take additional steps to meet the requirements of the Affordable care act. You are covered. The Affordable care law does not change VA health benefits or Veterans’ out-of-pocket costs. If you are not enrolled in VA health care, you can apply[…]

WWI Veteran Receives Long Overdue Purple Heart

by Robert Welsh They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted, They fell with their faces to the foe. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary[…]

50 Years and Counting

by Robert Welsh Memorial Day 2012 marked the beginning of a 13-year project to commemorate and remember America’s involvement in Vietnam. Such a reckoning is long overdue, as the Veterans of that war served with just as much patriotism and distinction as any before them. So, we should recall with a certain resolve the valor[…]

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