20.VA Fixes Problem With Vets Job Training Program. Military Times "With just 10 days before a new education benefits is launched to help unemployed veterans learn a new skill, the VA has rushed to fix a problem that could have left community colleges in 18 states and Puerto Rico ineligible for participation." On Wednesday, VA "officials told Congress...they were revising their eligibility criteria for community colleges to be part of the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program so that schools that offer a limited number of four-year bachelor degrees would not be left out." The revision had been requesting by US Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), who "said he was 'pleased to learn that...VA has changed its mind.'"
21.AHA, VA Team For Women's Health. Lake Country (TX) Sun "The American Heart Association has entered into a formal agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs to raise awareness of heart disease and strokes among women veterans and service members, and wives of veterans and military members." The agreement, Vines says, "bolsters...VA's ongoing efforts to prevent cardiovascular disease." Vines adds, "In support of the first lady's 'Joining Forces' initiative, the VA and the American Heart Association's 'Go Red For Women' are partnering to continue to raise this awareness among women veterans, the No. 1 killer of women."
22."She Served She Deserves." WHAG-TV "While some chanted 'Go Navy, go Air Force,' others repeated another motto: 'She served, she deserves' as the Martinsburg VA Medical Center" in West Virginia "opened its first women's domiciliary unit." Women in the unit "receive treatment for military sexual trauma, PTSD, substance use disorder, and even homelessness." WHAG adds, "The 18 beds in the new women's domiciliary unit are full, but directors say they will always make room for future women veterans in need."
23.Milwaukee Veterans Group Receives $500,000 In Grants. Milwaukee Business Journal On Tuesday, the US Department of Labor (DOL) "said...that The Center for Veterans Issues, a Milwaukee nonprofit, will receive a total of $500,000 in grants" from the DOL's Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program. The Business Journal continues, "A grant for $200,000 will be used to serve the six surrounding counties of Milwaukee and a grant for $300,000 will be used to serve Milwaukee, the agency said in a press release." The Business Journal adds, "Last year the Center for Veterans Issues received $1 million to combat veteran homelessness as a part of the Veterans Affairs Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program."
24.Boxer Moves To Prevent Misuse Of "GI Bill" Phrase By Colleges. KHTS-AM
25.Milwaukee Veteran Honored With Lifetime Achievement Award. WIHI-TV
26.Former US Soldier Aids Syria's Wounded. CNN
27.Ford Honored By "Military Order Of The Cooties." Gustine (CA) Press-Standard
28.Wounded G.I., Bartram Trail Grad Making "Amazing" Progress. St. Augustine (FL) Record
29.10 Tips And 32 Strategies For Healthcare CEOs. Health Leaders Media
30.VA / VSO-MSO Hearings as June 22, 2012:
June 27, 2012. SVAC will conduct a legislative hearing. The agenda is comprised mainly of bills regarding health care, disability compensation, and NCA matters. 10:00 A.M.; 418 Russell
- Today in History:
- 1783 – A poisonous cloud caused by the eruption of the Laki volcano in Iceland reaches Le Havre in France.
- 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigateUSS Chesapeake.
- 1813 – War of 1812: After learning of American plans for a surprise attack on Beaver Dams in Ontario, Laura Secord sets out on a 30 kilometer journey on foot to warn Lieutenant James FitzGibbon.
- 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.
- 1893 – The Royal Navy battleship HMS Camperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMS Victoriawhich sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
- 1897 – British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
- 1898 – Spanish–American War: United States Marines land in Cuba.
- 1906 – The flag of Sweden is adopted.
- 1922 – Herrin massacre: 19 strikebreakers and 2 union miners are killed in Herrin, Illinois.
- 1940 – France is forced to sign the Second Compiègne armistice with Germany.
- 1941 – Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.
- 1941 – The June Uprising in Lithuania begins.
- 1942 – Erwin Rommel is promoted to Field Marshal after the capture of Tobruk.
- 1944 – Opening day of the Soviet Union's Operation Bagration against the Army Group Centre.
- 1944 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, commonly known as the G.I. Bill.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launches an R-12 missile for the first time (in the Kapustin Yar).
- 1969 – The Cuyahoga River catches fire, triggering a crack-down on pollution in the river.
- 1976 – The Canadian House of Commons abolishes capital punishment.
- 1990 – Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
- 2009 – Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
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