Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW) Military National

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Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW)
Association Type
Military National

Website
http://www.vfw.org/

Contact Phone Number
(816) 756-3390

Contact Email
info@vfw.org
Year Established
1899

Short Name
vfw 		HQ Address
National Headquarters
406 West 34th Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64111
 

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<p style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(96,96,96); font-family:verdana; font-size:11px">Originally founded in 1899 as the American Veterans of Foreign Service, the VFW continues to be a voice for veterans, currently deployed members of our Armed Forces, and their families. The 2.4 million members of the VFW and its Auxiliaries are located in 8,500 VFW Posts around the world. We are at heart an organization dedicated to providing a place for all of those who have sacrificed in our nation?s conflicts abroad. While we are a national organization, we express this dedication through our local posts and programs to support veterans, service members, and their families.<br />
<br />
<strong>Our Mission</strong><br />
The VFW?s mission is to support those who sacrifice so much for this country?veterans, those currently serving in our US Armed Forces, and their families.<br />
<br />
<strong>Current Leadership</strong><br />
The VFW is headed by a National Commander-in-Chief elected to serve a one-year term.</span></span></p>
National Commander-in-Chief: Thomas Tradewell<br />
Senior Vice Commander: Richard Eubank<br />
Junior Vice Commander: Richard DeNoyer<br />
VFW Adjutant General: Allen 'Gunner' Kent<br />
VFW Quartermaster General: Larry Maher<br />
VFW Washington, D.C., Office Executive Director: Bob Wallace
<p style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(96,96,96); font-family:verdana; font-size:11px"><strong>Veteran Advocacy: Full-Time Support for Veterans</strong><br />
National Veteran Service: The VFW provides full-time support to veterans and their families. Our Veteran Service Officers are professional, full-time advocates who are expert at helping veterans (members and non-members alike) with their Veterans Administration claims. They can be found at every VA medical center and can also be reached at 1-800-VFW-1899. Our Veteran Service Officers help veterans claim over a billion dollars annually in VA benefits. Every veteran (including those in the process of leaving the military) should speak to a Veteran Service Officer to ensure he or she is receiving the benefits they deserve.<br />
<br />
National Legislative Services: The VFW works for veterans on Capitol Hill. The VFW Washington, D.C., office has a full-time staff to monitor, lobby, and report on legislation that directly impacts our veteran community.<br />
<br />
<strong>Support to Troops and Families: Answering the Call to Assist Our Nation?s Defenders</strong><br />
National Military Services: The VFW offers support and assistance to the military community through a variety of programs.<br />
<br />
The VFW launched Operation Uplink in 1996 to connect active-duty troops and hospitalized veterans with their loved ones. Contributions from supporters purchase phone cards that are sent to those serving this great nation. In total, VFW Operation Uplink has distributed more than 8.5 million phone cards. In 2006, the VFW also began hosting ?Free Call Days.? On holidays throughout the year, troops can call home?at no charge?from Internet cafes throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. Free talk time has already totaled more than 5 million minutes!<br />
<br />
VFW Unmet Needs helps service members and their families who face unexpected financial difficulties, often as a result of unexpected or extended deployments. Military families can apply for grants of up to $2,500 to cope with emergencies and get through tough times.<br />
<br />
VFW Military Assistance Program works to give troops and military families the help they need during long deployments and when they return. The program sponsors numerous morale-boosting sendoffs and homecomings for troops and their families. The events?which often include free entertainment, food and other festivities?are held at military bases across the nation, as well as at local VFW Posts.<br />
<br />
<strong>Programs in Our Communities: Giving Back to Our Towns and Neighborhoods</strong><br />
The VFW promotes programs that help build our communities. Though we maintain a national presence, we are a grass-roots organization. A VFW Post is not a building?it is the people inside. Our programs are geared toward developing tomorrow?s leaders and recognizing those who are building that future today.<br />
<br />
VFW gives out over $3.6 million annually through our Voice of Democracy scholarships to high-school students and Patriots Pen savings bonds to junior high and middle-school students. Candidates for these awards are nominated at the Post level and compete at the state and national levels. Finalists are invited to VFW ceremonies in Washington, D.C. The VFW recently added the VFW Military Family Scholarship for veterans and their families. Applicants apply to VFW National Headquarters for this award.<br />
<br />
Community service takes many forms, from volunteering at local VA hospitals to volunteering in community clean-ups. VFW members volunteer over 13 million hours annually in their communities.<br />
The VFW also offers recognition to leaders in our community. These awards go to teachers, police officers, firefighters, and emergency response personnel who have distinguished themselves through their dedication and service.</span></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(96,96,96); font-family:verdana; font-size:11px">Originally founded in 1899 as the American Veterans of Foreign Service, the VFW continues to be a voice for veterans, currently deployed members of our Armed Forces, and their families. The 2.4 million members of the VFW and its Auxiliaries are located in 8,500 VFW Posts around the world. We are at heart an organization dedicated to providing a place for all of those who have sacrificed in our nation?s conflicts abroad. While we are a national organization, we express this dedication through our local posts and programs to support veterans, service members, and their families.<br />
<br />
<strong>Our Mission</strong><br />
The VFW?s mission is to support those who sacrifice so much for this country?veterans, those currently serving in our US Armed Forces, and their families.<br />
<br />
<strong>Current Leadership</strong><br />
The VFW is headed by a National Commander-in-Chief elected to serve a one-year term.</span></span></p>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(96,96,96); font-family:verdana; font-size:11px"> </span></span>National Commander-in-Chief: Thomas Tradewell<br />
Senior Vice Commander: Richard Eubank<br />
Junior Vice Commander: Richard DeNoyer<br />
VFW Adjutant General: Allen 'Gunner' Kent<br />
VFW Quartermaster General: Larry Maher<br />
VFW Washington, D.C., Office Executive Director: Bob Wallace
<p style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(96,96,96); font-family:verdana; font-size:11px"><strong>Veteran Advocacy: Full-Time Support for Veterans</strong><br />
National Veteran Service: The VFW provides full-time support to veterans and their families. Our Veteran Service Officers are professional, full-time advocates who are expert at helping veterans (members and non-members alike) with their Veterans Administration claims. They can be found at every VA medical center and can also be reached at 1-800-VFW-1899. Our Veteran Service Officers help veterans claim over a billion dollars annually in VA benefits. Every veteran (including those in the process of leaving the military) should speak to a Veteran Service Officer to ensure he or she is receiving the benefits they deserve.<br />
<br />
National Legislative Services: The VFW works for veterans on Capitol Hill. The VFW Washington, D.C., office has a full-time staff to monitor, lobby, and report on legislation that directly impacts our veteran community.<br />
<br />
<strong>Support to Troops and Families: Answering the Call to Assist Our Nation?s Defenders</strong><br />
National Military Services: The VFW offers support and assistance to the military community through a variety of programs.<br />
<br />
The VFW launched Operation Uplink in 1996 to connect active-duty troops and hospitalized veterans with their loved ones. Contributions from supporters purchase phone cards that are sent to those serving this great nation. In total, VFW Operation Uplink has distributed more than 8.5 million phone cards. In 2006, the VFW also began hosting ?Free Call Days.? On holidays throughout the year, troops can call home?at no charge?from Internet cafes throughout Iraq and Afghanistan. Free talk time has already totaled more than 5 million minutes!<br />
<br />
VFW Unmet Needs helps service members and their families who face unexpected financial difficulties, often as a result of unexpected or extended deployments. Military families can apply for grants of up to $2,500 to cope with emergencies and get through tough times.<br />
<br />
VFW Military Assistance Program works to give troops and military families the help they need during long deployments and when they return. The program sponsors numerous morale-boosting sendoffs and homecomings for troops and their families. The events?which often include free entertainment, food and other festivities?are held at military bases across the nation, as well as at local VFW Posts.<br />
<br />
<strong>Programs in Our Communities: Giving Back to Our Towns and Neighborhoods</strong><br />
The VFW promotes programs that help build our communities. Though we maintain a national presence, we are a grass-roots organization. A VFW Post is not a building?it is the people inside. Our programs are geared toward developing tomorrow?s leaders and recognizing those who are building that future today.<br />
<br />
VFW gives out over $3.6 million annually through our Voice of Democracy scholarships to high-school students and Patriots Pen savings bonds to junior high and middle-school students. Candidates for these awards are nominated at the Post level and compete at the state and national levels. Finalists are invited to VFW ceremonies in Washington, D.C. The VFW recently added the VFW Military Family Scholarship for veterans and their families. Applicants apply to VFW National Headquarters for this award.<br />
<br />
Community service takes many forms, from volunteering at local VA hospitals to volunteering in community clean-ups. VFW members volunteer over 13 million hours annually in their communities.<br />
The VFW also offers recognition to leaders in our community. These awards go to teachers, police officers, firefighters, and emergency response personnel who have distinguished themselves through their dedication and service.</span></span></p>
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Title
VA Aggressively Working Claims Backlog
Date Event
Jan 4, 2010

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WASHINGTON (January 4, 2010) — The national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. said the most important takeaway from last night's 60 Minutes piece on the Department of Veterans Affairs was that the VA is aggressively working to overcome a claims backlog that is currently delaying benefits payments to hundreds of thousands of disabled military veterans.


 


"The backlog is something the VFW is very concerned about," said Thomas J. Tradewell Sr., a combat-wounded Vietnam veteran from Sussex, Wis. 


 


"We understand the frustration that veterans and their families experience from delayed, rejected or improperly adjudicated claims, but we also know there are no quick fixes," he said.  "That's why the VFW will continue to work with VA leadership and Congress to find a permanent solution, because we know the backlog will only continue to rise as the veterans' population ages, as more become eligible from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere, as presumptive illnesses and programs are expanded, and as more veterans learn about the government programs and benefits available to them."


 


The VFW has for a number of years lobbied the Administration and Congress for additional funding and new oversight to address the claims problem.  In response, the VA has added 4,200 new employees to compensation and pension claims processing over the past three years.  They are working diligently to develop new information technology programs that will assist in the claims process system, and working jointly with the Defense Department to create an electronic medical and service record capability to ease a veteran's transition from DOD to VA care. 


 


As VA continues to expand their outreach efforts to eligible veterans, they also recommend claimants seek the assistance of trained service officers that veterans' service organizations like the VFW provide at no cost to all eligible veterans. 


 


VFW-trained service officers last year helped almost 95,000 veterans to recoup more than $1.2 billion in earned compensation and pension.  The VFW also served almost 10,000 more at military installations around the country through a program called Benefits Delivery at Discharge, which helps personnel complete VA paperwork prior to their separation or retirement from the military.


 


"The VFW is the VA's strongest ally in Congress and sometimes its loudest critic, but we recognize that only by working together will the claims backlog problem be solved," said Tradewell.  "We are a willing partner in helping to find a permanent solution so that our government can better care for those who have worn the uniform."
 
 

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