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Community support and legislation fight unemployment among post-9/11 vets
As a post-9/11 veteran, Enyart is part of a group that had a 9.7 percent unemployment rate as of September, well above the overall unemployment rate of 7.8 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Arizona utility joins pilot program to connect veterans to energy industry jobs
Arizona Public Service is one of five companies taking part in a national initiative to hire veterans for some of the 200,000 jobs that could come open in the energy industry over the next five years.
Bill allowing military veterans to pay in-state tuition advances in committee
A Senate panel on Tuesday approved a bill to automatically qualify honorably discharged military veterans for a program that allows them to pay in-state tuition in colleges and universities.
Lawmaker wants to give severely wounded veterans tuition waiver scholarships
Veterans who suffered severe combat wounds deserve tuition breaks similar to those available to faculty and staff at state universities so they can get on with their lives, a state lawmaker said.
History project has high school students recording veterans’ stories
What sticks with Kevin Kane most from the first time he received a Purple Heart in Iraq isn't the explosion that sprayed his arms and legs with shrapnel and left him hard of hearing in one ear. It's the Iraqi civilians across the street from his crippled Humvee, apparently unconcerned.
Vietnam War Memorial replica headed for Phoenix
A replica of the Vietnam War Memorial will be displayed in Phoenix Memorial Park from Sept. 18 until Sept. 20. The replica is owned by Dignity Memorial, a network of funeral, cremation and cemetery services that transports the three-quarter scale wall across the country each year. The wall was built in 1990 and has been touring different sites ever since, each one sponsored by the local Dignity[...]
New law to provide medal to families of Arizona’s fallen service members
The dogtag around Margy Bons' neck bears a picture of her son, Marine Sgt. Michael Marzano. Her office contains a shrine of sorts to him: his Marine Corps portrait, a picture of the day he received his sergeant's stripes, a Marine Corps service medallion, a folded U.S. flag she received after he was killed in Iraq in 2005.
