Help us honor and show how
proud we are of all East Texas
ATTENTION: FEMALE VETERANS
Women are Veterans, too.
And for too long, their unique issues and needs have been overlooked and
ignored – by the VA, and by Society.
It’s time to change that – and in East Texas, we’re working on it!
Under the auspices of American Legion Watkins-Gaudet Post 474 in Tyler, a
Women Veterans Group is currently forming, specifically for the purpose of
addressing the needs of our female Vets.
A discussion Forum is planned for this spring and a
Retreat is in the works for later in 2013 – and that’s just for “starters”!
But we need your help to get the word out, and we need contact information,
so that we can notify every one of the final dates, times, locations, etc.
If you would like to receive more information, please email your name, Branch of Service, and email address to: womenarevetstoo@yahoo.com
And be sure to share this info with any other Lady Vets
you know. No matter how long ago… 19 or 90… regardless of rank held, if you
wore the Uniform, you’re our Sister, and we want you with us. Let us
hear from you!
SCAM ALERT!!
Military beware!
A called was made to our group by a civilian in Michigan stating he had a soldier from East Texas contact him via email requesting assistance for a phone from Afghanistan to be sent to him. Claimed to have received all kinds of paperwork from the soldier verifying he was indeed in the service. He did have a lot of information such as parents' name as well as sister and brother's name, among other pertinent info on this soldier. RED FLAG: two (2) things wrong: this soldier was and did not live in California and is not deployed at this time.
Fortunately we knew the family and knew that was to be
untrue. We contacted the father of the soldier, to verify this was
indeed a scam. The real soldier will be making a report of this
situation to his CO and this matter will be investigated. The Family would
like to make everyone aware of this scam!
THE
WARRIOR SONG
Words and music by: Sean Householder
Video with lyrics:
http://www.thewarriorsong.com/video.html
"The Warrior Song" is currently on
sale at ITunes and
www.thewarriorsong.com, but free to members of the U.S. Military. All
profits derived from its sale will be donated to the Armed Forces Relief
Trust. Active duty and former service men and women may received a
free copy by sending an email with your rank and unit. To support,
just purchase a copy of the song.
Army Releases January 2013
Suicide Information
The Army released suicide data today for the month of
January 2013. During January, among active-duty soldiers, there were 19
potential suicides: two have been confirmed as suicides and 17 remain
under investigation. For December 2012, the Army reported seven
potential suicides among active-duty soldiers; however, subsequent to
the report, another case was added bringing December’s total to eight:
five have been confirmed as suicides and three are under investigation.
