Sarasota Veterans Commission

The program discussion will be "Why I support John McCain" with guest speakers Dr. Rich Swier, LTC, U.S. Army (Ret.) and Doug Courtney, Chief Warrant Office, U.S. Army (Ret.), both are chairmen of the "Surge For Veterans" program.  

Rear Admiral John Hutson (RET) spoke for Obama from the podium tonight at the DemocRAT freak show. He claims to have recently left the GOP to support Obama. Hutson spent 28 years as a Navy lawyer. We salute his service, but he was not involved in the decisions made by other admirals defending...  

REEDSBURG—In Sept. 2007 Reedsburg resident Tricia Wischmann started "adopting" American soldiers serving abroad, sending care packages and letters to troops who didn't have much family or friends back home.Now a year later Wischmann has corresponded with over 1,200 soldiers and was appointed the...  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) _ Government forces pounded rebel defenses with airstrikes, helicopter attacks and ground assaults as heavy fighting across northern Sri Lanka killed 47 Tamil Tiger fighters and left 13 soldiers dead or missing, the military said Wednesday.  

CALGARY -- After decades of pressuring for compensation, Ottawa announced Tuesday that "atomic veterans" -- about 900 soldiers who were deployed at atomic-bomb test sites in Nevada half a century ago and showered with radiation -- will be eligible for a special payment of $24,000.  

Nine Australian special forces troops were wounded in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, the nation's worst combat casualty toll in a single incident since Vietnam, the military said Wednesday.  

Don't ask, don't tell has been law for gay men and women in the military since the Clinton administration. Two gay veterans talk about how the policy has affected their lives.  

The military-to-civilian recruiting firm RecruitMilitary will present a free hiring event for job seekers who have military backgrounds in Pittsburgh on Thursday, September 25, 2008.  

SYDNEY (AFP)--Nine Australian special forces soldiers have been wounded during a battle with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, the military said Wednesday.  

After decades of pressuring for compensation, Ottawa announced Tuesday that 'atomic veterans' - soldiers who were deployed at atomic bomb test sites in Nevada half a century ago and showered with radiation - will be eligible for a special payment of $24,000. Defence Minister Peter MacKay made the...  

About 100 veterans marched in formation to the site of the Republican National Convention on Monday, hoping their experience would lend credibility to their anti-war message. Many members of Iraq Veterans Against the War were in uniform as they pressed for a meeting with the presidential...  

Sri Lankan troops closed in on a rebel-controlled town in the north Monday as fighting in the nation's civil war killed 32 guerrillas and five soldiers, the military said.  

NEWARK -- Seventeen World War II veterans from Licking County received a hero's welcome and a complimentary tour of national military monuments as part of an Honor Flight tour earlier this month.  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan military says 42 Tamil Tiger rebels and five of its soldiers died in heavy fighting in the island nation's troubled northern region.  

Brian Coleman was never in the service and has no ties to the military. But when he began looking for a cause to support after his retirement, he decided helping wounded veterans was the way to go.