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Military Onesource
Click around for answers to the military life questions you didn't even know to ask. Military OneSource is your central hub and go-to-place for the military community.
Department of Veterans Affairs
GI Bill
How to Request Military Records
Military.com
Center for Minority Veterans
The Center for Minority Veterans is the Department of Veterans Affairs model for inter-and intra-agency co-operation, to ensure all veterans receive equal service regardless of race, origin, religion, or gender. We assist VA in executing its mission in the most equitable, efficient and humane way possible.
VA Homeless Veterans Website
Veteran homelessness is a problem of national importance. According to a count on a January night in 2011, there were 67,495 homeless Veterans. And an estimated 144,842 Veterans spent at least one night in an emergency shelter or transitional housing program in a recent year. Because of this, in 2009, President Obama and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki announced the federal government’s goal to end Veteran homelessness by 2015.
Veterans Benefits and Legal Reference
The Disabled American Veterans organization provides this web site to link to federal benefits for veterans and their dependents. It also links to laws that govern veteran's claims and benefits and provides links to veterans groups and other similar sites.
How to Write a Military Résumé
Follow these tips to draft a high-impact resume that shows how your military experience is transferable to a civilian job.
VetFriends
VetFriends was founded by a US Veteran in 2000. Since then, we've helped countless veterans and active personnel find and reconnect with their military friends.

Military Deployment Support
Support resources for military about to deploy.
Deployment Resources for Families
Wide array of programs and services designed for military families.
25+ Best Deployment Resources for Military Spouses
From "The Military Wife and Mom".

Feds Hire Vets
Feds Hire Vets is your single site for Federal employment information for veterans, transitioning military service members, their families, and federal hiring officials.
G. I. Jobs
Listed as "Your Guide to Post-Military Success" ", this site provides links to resume writing, dressing for success, interviewing skills and career tips.
Vocational Rehabilitation & Employment Program
The VetSuccess program assists Veterans with service-connected disabilities to prepare for, find, and keep suitable jobs. For Veterans with service-connected disabilities so severe that they cannot immediately consider work, VetSuccess offers services to improve their ability to live as independently as possible.
Office of Veterans Business Development
The Office of Veterans Business Development's mission is to maximize the availability, applicability and usability of all administration small business programs for Veterans, Service-Disabled Veterans, Reserve Component Members, and their Dependents or Survivors.
VeteranOwnedBusiness.com
VeteranOwnedBusiness.com is a comprehensive, user friendly directory of small, medium and large businesses owned by veterans, active duty military, reservists and service disabled veterans.

Center for Women Veterans
The Center serves as an advocate for a cultural transformation (both within VA and in the general public) in recognizing the service and contributions of women veterans and women in the military, and in raising awareness of the responsibility to treat women veterans with dignity and respect
Service Women's Action Network
SWAN supports, defends, and empowers today’s servicewomen and women veterans of all eras, through groundbreaking advocacy initiatives and innovative, healing community programs. SWAN advocates for all military women, in order to increase their visibility and improve their access to equal opportunity, equal protection and equal benefits.
Women Veterans Organizations
List of women's veteran organizations from a search on VetFriends.

National Military Family Association
VA Support for Families
One of the service member's most valuable assets is waiting at home. Learn more about the resources available for families serving nation wide.
Families
The Real Warriors Campaign is an initiative launched by the Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) to promote the processes of building resilience, facilitating recovery and supporting reintegration of returning service members, veterans and their families.
Office of Survivors Assistance
The Office of Survivors Assistance was established to serve as a resource regarding all benefits and services furnished by the VA Department to survivors and dependents of deceased veterans and members of the Armed Forces.
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
TAPS is the home of America’s front line resource for all who are grieving the death of a loved one serving our country. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, TAPS provides support and information through talk or meeting others with shared experiences.

Disability Benefits For Wounded Warriors
Military service members can receive expedited processing of disability claims from Social Security. Benefits available through Social Security are different than those from the Department of Veterans Affairs and require a separate application. The expedited process is used for military service members who become disabled while on active military service on or after October 1, 2001, regardless of where the disability occurs.
Special Operations Warrior Foundati
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.
U.S Wounded Soldiers Foundation
The mission of the US Wounded Soldier Foundation is to provide for the needs of our combat veterans deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wounded Warrior Project Home Page
To raise awareness and enlist the public's aid for the needs of injured service members.
To help injured service members aid and assist each other.
To provide unique, direct programs and services to meet the needs of injured service members
Wounded Warriors Family Support Organization
Our mission is to provide support to the families of those who have been wounded, injured or killed during combat operations. The families of our casualties suffer in many ways: some financially, some psychologically.

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