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DoD office helps veterans ease back into civilian life
Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve was set up in 1972 to help employers enable members of the National Guard and Reserve to re-enter the civilian job market.
Tags: On DoD , DoD , Jared Serbu ,
Changes needed in Guard, Reserve pay, study says
America's citizen soldiers, who train in their hometowns for a weekend a month and two weeks a year, are paid more for one day of training at home than their fellow National Guard and Reserve members earn for a day serving in the war zone.
Tags: DoD , Federal Drive , DoD Report
Almost half of new vets seek disability
A staggering 45 percent of the 1.6 million veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now seeking compensation for injuries they say are service-related.
Tags: Veteran Affairs , PTSD , DoD , Afghanistan and Iraq , Disabled American Veterans ,
Some National Guard members to pay dental premiums directly
Changes to the TRICARE Dental Program will mean some National Guard and Reserve members will have to pay their premiums the old-fashioned way.
Tags: TRICARE , pay and benefits , DoD Report , Federal Drive , dental
DoD to survey employment practices at Guard and Reserves
Tags: DoD Report , survey , Dorobek Insider
Report: US needs to invest in National Guard and Reserves
The National Guard and Reserves used to be called the "weekend warriors;" a force of last resort. But since the Sept. 11 attacks, there's been increasing reliance on the Guard and Reserves for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Travis Sharp, a research associate at the Center for a New American Security, talks about the findings in his organization's new report about the use of the Guard and Reserves.
Tags: DoD Report , Dorobek Insider , Travis Sharp , Center for a New American Security ,
DOD evaluating role of Guard, reserves
Learn more in today's DoD Report
Tags: Federal Drive , Defense , National Guard , DoD , DoD Report , Robert Gates
Defense reaches out to employers
The Defense Department is reaching out to employers of National Guardsmen and Reservists with a major survey to find out how the past decade of war and the heavy use of Reserve-component forces has affected their civilian workplaces.
Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , Defense , employer survey
Suicides increase sharply in Army Guard, Reserves
The suicide rate is spiking among inactive duty military.
Tags: DoD Report , Suicide , Army , Peter Chiarelli , Dorobek Insider
