Goodwill Hosting Veterans Program

Goodwill Industries in the Land of Lincoln is going to host several gatherings that will introduce veterans to the Vetlink program. Vetlink was created to help veterans’ job needs. This will include brushing up their job skills, computer training, methods for finding a job, improving interview techniques, and increasing writing skills.

Career Coach for Land of Lincoln Goodwill Industries’ Jacksonville office, Tiffany Van Meter, stated that the Vetlink program connects veterans with other services created for veterans.

“The Vetlink program is designed to help veterans who wish to return to the workforce or update their career skills. We help vets look for work, we help them with resumes, fill out applications. Another important component to the Vetlink Program is helping them find the resources they need, hence the name Vetlink. We help them connect to other veterans programs they may not know about, to help them with all their needs.”

Career Coaches can get special training that will teach them how to work specifically with veterans according to Van Meter.

“A veterans resume is quite a bit different than just scratching out anybody’s resume because we really learn how to take what they learned in the military and apply it to within the civilian world. A lot of veterans will return, and you ask them what their specific skills are and they will just say I was responsible for transporting this equipment. It is billions of dollars worth of equipment, but they don’t know how to translate that into a resume.”

Van Meter states why introducing this new program will help veterans.

“We have so many veterans coming back from serving and they really need that help returning to civilian life. They are facing a lot of barriers that everyday people just aren’t facing and don’t understand.”

The Vetlink orientation meetings will be held at 6 pm on March 8^th and at 10 am March 9^th at the Jacksonville Goodwill located at 1809 West Morton.

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Bill to Give Veterans Full Access to Private, Local Medical Care

On Tuesday, Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL) introduced legislation that will allow veterans full access to private, local medical care.

The Full Choice for Veterans Act is the bill that Representative Byrne expects to pass before congress. It will widen eligibility of the Veterans Choice Program to all veterans. Veterans will get a card to receive care from private doctors or hospitals with the Veterans Choice Program. As of right now, access to the VA Choice Program is restricted to only allow vets that have waited 30 days or longer for VA care or vets that reside more than 40 miles away from a VA facility.

Congressman Byrne’s bill will change it so that every veteran can access health care providers in their local community, no matter what the veteran's situation is.

Byrne stated, “Veterans should not be forced to remain in a VA system that is dysfunctional and broken. This is why Congress created the Choice Card program a few years ago to give veterans greater access to private medical care in their local community. Sadly, the VA created roadblocks to limit veteran access to the Choice Card program. Our veterans deserve better.

“Under the Full Choice for Veterans Act, we will give veterans the choices they need and access to timely medical care. Even more, I think we can actually save taxpayer money by cutting down on the bloated VA bureaucracy. This is a win-win situation, and I look forward to working with my colleagues to advance this legislation.”

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Black Rifle CoffeeTo Hire 10,000 Veterans

There was backlash and threats of boycotts for Starbucks after stating that it would provide 10,000 new jobs for refugees in response to President Donald Trump's immigration ban. Others said they would be sure to make more coffee runs to the coffee giant in support of the move. Many accused the company of putting refugees before veterans.

On Tuesday, Army Special Forces veteran and Black Rifle Coffee CEO Evan Hafer revealed his intentions to hire 10,000 veterans to communicate his support.

Here he is on Fox and Friends talking about how he intends to hire 10,000 veterans.

"Our plan is to build 600 stores in the next six years. I'm gonna try to push this forward with the community behind me," Hafer said.

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Starbucks answered back to their critics simply stating: "Check your facts."

"We would like to set the record straight," veteran Starbucks workers wrote in a statement.

"In November 2013, Howard and former Secretary of Defense Bob Gates announced Starbucks' commitment to hire 10,000 veterans and military spouses over the next five years.

"Howard and his wife Sheri visited military bases to get to know our nation’s service members. They poured substantial personal financial resources into their own family foundation to design plans for transitioning service members. Starbucks established military family stores at over 30 bases around the country. Howard encouraged Starbucks senior leaders to visit our military bases and get to know our military on a personal level, knowing it would lead them to hire more veterans and their spouses."

The statement went on to explain that the coffee giant has hired more than 8,800 veterans and veterans' spouses within the first four years of its pledge.

"Without question we will reach the 10,000 goal early, and we will keep going," the company said of its 2018 goal.

"We hold true to our values as conservative, pro-military, pro-law enforcement,and pro-2nd Amendment American citizens and never waiver in those values in order to simply make the maximum amount of profit," executive vice president and chief operating officer Scott Bollinger wrote in his bio on the company website. Bollinger wrote that he served in the United States Army Special Forces for 24 years before retiring as a command sergeant major of a Special Forces Group.

Black Rifle Coffee, which sells roasts like the "Caffeine and Hate," "Coffee or Die," "Murdered Out" and "Girls for Gunslingers" blends, does not have any brick and mortar stores, but products can be purchased online on the company's website. The company also sells T-shirts, hats, mugs and other apparel and gear.

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