Tag Archives: Veterans Serving Veterans
WAC Vet Answered the Nation’s Call, Now Answers Veterans’ Questions at CalVet
One day during the early months of 2018, soon after she hired on as the office technician in CalVet’s Communications Division, U.S. Women’s Army Corps veteran Yulana Low handled a telephone call she will never forget. “The older brother of a young veteran couldn’t get over his brother’s death,” she said. “I believe he was […]
From One Family to Another: Kinship During Deployment Set Stage for Veteran’s Future
Liz Hargrove-Washington’s world changed in an instant during the winter of 1996. As a young staff sergeant in the Air Force stationed at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, and the young mother of a baby girl, she received orders to deploy to Saudi Arabia. “It was one of the most challenging, difficult times of […]
Seeing ‘Old Glory’ Adorning A Captured Enemy Ship Buoys Redding Doctor to Care for Other Veterans
In the pitch-blackness of a September night in 1987, the commander of an American cruiser in the Persian Gulf sounded general quarters. “He told us we were in the middle of an Iranian minefield,” said James Vogus—now chief physician and surgeon at the Veterans Home of California-Redding—a crew member that evening. “I wrote a letter […]
Veterans Serving Veterans: Hand Caught in the Jelly Bean Jar
(This is the first in a series of CalVet Connect posts introducing you to CalVet employees who are veterans of the United States Armed Forces—thus Veterans Serving Veterans.) Long before Richard Blackford began protecting veterans at the Veterans Home of California-Redding, the Marine veteran was a lance corporal assigned to the security detail at the […]
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