Microsoft training academy goes virtual, boosting efforts to prep veterans for tech careers
Veterans and transitioning service members will now be able to prepare for a career in tech from anywhere in the world without using their GI Bill benefits.
Veterans and transitioning service members will now be able to prepare for a career in tech from anywhere in the world without using their GI Bill benefits.
Several new groups focused on minority veteran issues are being elevated by policy makers in an effort to ensure their views are being considered.
The unemployment rate for all veterans in February was 5.5 percent, the same as in January,
The move follows a similar review by Defense Department officials announced last month.
On March 4, 2020, VA officials announced their first recorded case of coronavirus in a patient from California. Since then, hundreds of thousands more have contracted the illness.
The department has delayed or cancelled more than 19 million medical appointments over the last year, but hopes to reschedule them in the months ahead.
Officials said the joint work will help establish better conditions for both current and former service members.
Defense and veterans hearings on Capitol Hill for the week of March 1, 2021.
The Montana Democrat will serve as chairman of both the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee and the defense panel of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Leroy Manor served as a pilot in WWII and planned the Son Tay Raid in Vietnam. He died just four days after his 100th birthday.