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- Vet Jobs Update 210 ► Trump Hiring Freeze Impact
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- Wyoming Veterans Cemetery Update 02 ► Land Purchased
- Pacific War Memorial ► Rear Adm. Lloyd R. “Joe” Vaseys Vision
Vet Jobs Update 209 ► Truck Driving USA Truck (No. 57 on the CCJ Top 250) is launching a new apprenticeship program aimed at helping military veterans transition into truck driving jobs. The company’s Military Transition Apprenticeship Training Program is for military veterans eligible for GI Bill and post-9/11 employment training benefits. USA Truck President of Trucking Martin Tewari says the program allows veterans to receive Class A CDL training with no up-front costs. “Plus, they can start employment at USA Truck while receiving earned benefits from the Veterans Administration of $1,200 per month or more for up to 15 months,” Tewari adds. The program is in cooperation with the VA and the Department of Labor. USA Truck says military veterans already account for more than 21 percent of its employees. Recent Vets are eligible for their $1,000 Hiring Heroes Bonus! For more info on obtaining training or a job refer to http://driveusatruck.com/veterans. [Source: Overdrive | January 23, 2017 ++] 
***************************** Vet Jobs Update 210 ► Trump Hiring Freeze Impact President Donald Trump’s new federal hiring freeze could cause major problems for not only managers at the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense but also thousands of former servicemembers hoping to land government posts. On 3 JAN, in one of his first executive actions in the White House, Trump ordered “a freeze on the hiring of federal civilian employees to be applied across the board in the executive branch.” It applies to “all executive departments and agencies regardless of the sources of their operational and programmatic funding, excepting military personnel.” White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the move was a reaction to what the president sees as a frustration with the growth of federal bureaucracy. “There's been, frankly, a lack of respect for taxpayer dollars in this town for a long time,” he said at a news conference Monday. “I think what the president is showing through the hiring freeze, first and foremost, is that we've got to respect the American taxpayer. “Some people are working two, three jobs just to get by. And to see money get wasted in Washington on a job that is duplicative is insulting to the hard work that they do to pay their taxes.” The order does not revoke any job offers already made by managers, and does contain exceptions for “any positions that it deems necessary to meet national security or public safety responsibilities.” That could give the White House and Pentagon plenty of leeway to still hire key positions as they evaluate departures from the last administration. In addition, the Office of Personnel Management can grant exemptions from the freeze upon request, but details on how that process would work have not been released. Nearly 3,000 civilian Defense Department positions are currently listed in federal employment sites, along with almost 2,300 more Department of Veterans Affairs posts. Administration officials could not say how many of those positions may be exempt, or how many other open jobs had not yet been listed formally before the announcement. Veterans looking for work could be among the largest groups affected by the change, since they currently make up about one-third of the federal workforce, according to agency reports. More than 623,000 veterans are currently working in civilian federal posts, of the 2 million-person federal work force. Veterans-hiring preferences and familiarity with VA and military issues make many of the posts attractive to former servicemembers. And the federal government is among the biggest employers of disabled veterans, as well. About 15 percent of veterans working at VA and nearly 18 percent of veterans at the Defense Department are disabled. Spicer said officials do not anticipate the freeze will hurt customer service or agency operations. He said agency landing teams are “talking about ways that we can create greater efficiencies, eliminate duplicity and maximize the tax dollar” without cutting programs. But outside analysts have questioned whether those promises are realistic. At a defense panel discussion 23 JAN, Mark Cancian, senior adviser for at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Trump’s frequent insistence that cutting waste will create more than enough savings for program expansions is either naive or foolish. “There really is no such thing as a management efficiency,” he said. “You can’t cut where you reduce the inputs and increase the outputs. Really when people talk about management efficiencies, they’re talking about cutting what they believe are lower priority programs.” Trump’s order does allow agencies to move around some funding “to meet the highest priority needs and to ensure that essential services are not interrupted,” but also prohibits “contracting outside the government to circumvent the intent of this memorandum.” [Source: MilitaryTimes | Leo Shane III | January 24, 2017 ++] ***************************** Vet Jobs Update 211 ► Parent - Job Description TITLE: Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop, Granpa JOB DESCRIPTION : Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an often, chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities! Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required. RESPONSIBILITIES : The rest of your life. Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily, until someone needs $5. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility. POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION : None. Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE : None required unfortunately. On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis. WAGES AND COMPENSATION : Get this! You pay them! Offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more. BENEFITS : While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered; this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right. **************************** Wyoming Veterans Cemetery Update 02 ► Land Purchased The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced 30 JAN that it purchased about five acres near Cheyenne for a VA National Cemetery. The agency paid the city of Cheyenne about $64,000 for the land. Interim Under Secretary for Memorial Affairs Ronald E. Walters says the Cheyenne cemetery will help reach veterans in rural parts of Wyoming without reasonable access to a national or state veterans cemetery. The new cemetery will serve nearly 22,000 veterans, their spouses and eligible family members. The cemetery will include burial sites, above-ground columbarium niches, a memorial wall, flagpoles, a memorial walkway, roads and other infrastructure. The Oregon Trail Veterans Cemetery at Evansville is run by the state. Wyoming’s congressional delegation welcomed the announcement. [Source: Associated Press | January 30, 2017 ++] **************************** Pacific War Memorial ► Rear Adm. Lloyd R. “Joe” Vasey's Vision There is not much that retired Rear Adm. Lloyd R. “Joe” Vasey hasn’t accomplished in his first 100 years. Vasey, who became a centenarian on 31 JAN, now has his sights set on the creation of a Pacific War Memorial at Pearl Harbor. “There is no recognition of well over 150,000 brave Americans who were lost in the Pacific War,” Vasey said. “They are resting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean somewhere, or their remains are scattered across the South Pacific islands. We need to honor them, and their families need a place to mourn.” The late U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye had planned to introduce legislation authorizing the National Park Service to design and build the Pacific War Memorial, Vasey said. On 25 JAN, U.S. Rep. Colleen Hanabusa agreed to pick up the mantle. “I’m hoping that it can be accomplished in honor of Admiral Vasey’s 100th birthday,” Hanabusa said in a phone interview. “I will try to push it through on the House side, and I’m hoping Sen. John McCain will move it forward on the Senate side. I first became aware of this effort from Sen. Inouye and I want to see it done.” 
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