FW: Fun Shoot Saturday and General Meeting Sunday

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Robert Serge

VVA 17 Member

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To all my fellow veterans friends and family my we all remember 

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From: rogerhenning@cox.net
To: nvpost76@gmail.com
Subject: Fun Shoot Saturday and General Meeting Sunday
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:24:57 -0800

I would like to remind all of you of two upcoming events for Post 76 this weekend.  We are going to the Clark County Shooting Park on Saturday AM for a fun shoot, and of course the regular general meeting at the Durango Hills YMCA on Sunday.   I look forward to seeing a few of you and Saturday, and many more on Sunday for our General Meeting. 

Spirit of Freedom Post 76 normally meets on the 3rd Sunday of each month at:

Durango Hills YMCA Community Center, 3521 N. Durango Dr.

Las Vegas, NV 89129, [702] 240-9622, (Just north of W. Cheyenne Ave.)

Every quarter we hold a social event in lieu of the General Meeting at different locations. Watch our website, www.NVPost76.webs.com, our Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/American-Legion-Post-76-Las-Vegas/137926629646653] or the quarterly electronic newsletter for updates on special social events.

Executive Board Meetings are held at the Summerlin Trails Community Center, 1910 Spring Gate Lane, Las Vegas, NV 89134, [702] 341-5500.  Those meetings are on the second Thursday of the month at 4:30 pm.  Members are welcome to attend to observe how the Board operates.

Roger J. Henning, PhD

Adjutant

Department of Nevada, District 2

2120 CROOKED PINE DRIVE

Las Vegas, NV                       89134

[702] 595-1795

aldist2adj@gmail.com

FW: VVA Fun Shoots at CCSP Saturday Nov 15 and 22.

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Robert Serge

VVA 17 Member

Blog Master

To all my fellow veterans friends and family my we all remember 

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From: rogerhenning@cox.net
To: henningnhss@gmail.com
Subject: VVA Fun Shoots at CCSP Saturday Nov 15 and 22.
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 11:42:30 -0800

I would like to remind all of you of two upcoming events for VVA this weekend and another the following weekend. 

We are going to the Clark County Shooting Park on Saturday AM for a fun shoot on Saturday morning, and also VVA will have a booth at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show at the Riviera.  Because of the number that would be at the show and unable to attend our regular fun shoot, there are plenty that want to go on the next Saturday as well.  As such, we will have fun shoots on both tomorrow, Nov 15^th and Nov 22^nd. I hope we can see some of you at any of the three events; the Fun Shoot this Saturday, the Gun Show on Saturday and Sunday, and the extra fun shoot on November 22^nd.     

Roger J. Henning

HenningNHSS@gmail.com

rogerhenning@cox.net

(702) 595-1795

(702) 256-2214

FW: Thursday mission 13 Nov 2014

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Robert Serge

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To all my fellow veterans friends and family my we all remember 

> From: akan01@centurylink.net
> To: akan01@centurylink.net
> Subject: Thursday mission 13 Nov 2014
> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:22:21 -0800
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Donaghy [mailto:bobdonaghy@me.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 3:45 PM
> To: Undisclosed recipients:
> Subject: Thursday mission
>
> Hi Everyone
>
> This Thursday, Nov. 13th, the following interment is scheduled for 8:40 AM
> at the Southern Nevada Veteran's Memorial Cemetery, 1900 Veteran's Memorial
> Drive, Boulder City, 89005. These interments are for Nevada's fallen
> veterans who are without family, homeless, indigent or just forgotten by
> family and friends and remain unclaimed.
>
> This week's interment is:
>
> USAF veteran: Brian Davis
>
> For anyone interested in riding over together, some of us meet for breakfast
> at the IHOP ( 4860 Boulder Hwy ) diagonally across the street from Sam's
> Town at around 6:50 AM. It will be KSU at 7:45 AM.
>
> Thank you Bob Donaghy=
>

FW: Veterans Affairs Secretary McDonald Updates Employees on MyVA Reorganization Plans

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Subject: Veterans Affairs Secretary McDonald Updates Employees on MyVA Reorganization Plans
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:52:13 -0600
To: grumpiebob@gmail.com
From: veteransaffairs@public.govdelivery.com

You are subscribed to Media Distribution List for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Veterans Affairs Secretary McDonald Updates Employees on MyVA Reorganization Plans 11/10/2014 12:48 PM EST FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                    November 10, 2014   Veterans Affairs Secretary McDonald Updates Employees on MyVA Reorganization Plans Washington, DC – On November 10, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Robert McDonald sent the following message to all VA employees: In the last few months as your Secretary, I have met and heard from Veterans and family members about how we can better serve Veterans.  I've also traveled to VA facilities across the country and have had the extraordinary opportunity to meet with you, the men and women who work on the front lines and behind the scenes to care for and serve Veterans every day.  These opportunities have informed my thinking as we work to plan for the future of the Department.   Already, more than 2,000 VA employees at 20 facilities serving 1.4 million Veterans have shared their perspectives on how we can improve this Department, and have provided insightful and thoughtful feedback about how VA should be organized to better serve Veterans. It is clear that our shared mission is important to you and your colleagues.  It's also clear that you share my goal of making VA easier to navigate for Veterans. I am grateful for your contributions, and your support in this endeavor. As we have been considering changes to VA, we have also met with Veterans, Veterans Service Organizations (VSO), NGOs, and other stakeholders.  We have used your feedback, and the common themes we heard in all comments, to begin shaping the way forward for VA.  Soon, we will begin implementing changes to VA, to better structure our organization to meet Veteran needs.  Our new alignments may change some of our processes, but our employees remain valued members of the team. Our shared goals are to ensure that Veterans have a clear understanding of VA and where to go for what they need within any of our facilities; that employees are empowered with the authority, knowledge and tools they need to solve problems and take action; and that the products and services that we deliver to Veterans are integrated within the organization.  The changes we plan to make are as follows: Establish a new VA-wide customer service organization to ensure we provide top-level customer service to Veterans.  A Chief Customer Service Officer who reports to the Secretary will lead this effort.  The mission of the new office will be to drive VA culture and practices to understand and respond to the expectations of our Veteran customers. Establishing a single regional framework that will simplify internal coordination, facilitate partnering and enhance customer service. This will allow Veterans to more easily navigate VA without having to understand our inner structure. Working with our partners to establish a national network of Community Veteran Advisory Councils to coordinate better service delivery with local, state and community partners. Expanded public-private partnerships will help us coordinate Veteran-related issues with local, state and community partners, as well as VA employees.    Identifying opportunities for VA to realign its internal business processes into a shared services model in which organizations across VA leverage the same support services, to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase productivity across VA.  Right now, we're looking at options used in the private sector to enhance our rapid delivery of services, and also at our own business processes that are suited for shared services. Please keep in mind that this is a long-term process and we are just beginning to plan how this will all unfold.  As we move forward with these changes, your feedback, ideas and perspective will be invaluable. To gather your suggestions, we have launched an intranet web tool, the My VA Idea House, where employees from across VA can submit ideas online to improve services, streamline processes and solve issues for Veterans and their families. Employees can also vote on submissions from your colleagues across VA. Sponsors will select ideas and create topic-related groups to encourage collaboration and help make the ideas a reality. The Idea House website will officially open for submissions tomorrow, Veterans Day, Nov. 11. I encourage you to go to vaideahouse.ideascale.com to submit your ideas and proposed solutions to the challenges you are seeing. I know there are a lot of questions about this effort, and I know that there will be concerns.  We don't have all the answers right now, and that's why we are reaching to you for your thoughts.  This will be a fair and deliberate process, and we need your help to make sure our decisions are the right ones for Veterans. As we collect input and work together to design an employee-led, Veteran-centric VA, we have a great opportunity to make significant progress toward our goals in the near term. Thank you for the work you are doing each day to make VA a stronger organization for America's Veterans.    ### Update your subscriptions, modify your password or email address, or unsubscribe at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your email address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. If you are in crisis and need immediate help, please call 1-800-273-8255 and (PRESS 1) or visit http://www.veteranscrisisline.net/. If you have questions please visit va.gov/explore and refer to "FAQs and Info" and "Get Assistance."  This service is provided to you at no charge by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. 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Veterans Day do you rember

The Oath of Enlistment: What It Means 
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
When a young man, or woman, decides that they want to serve their country as a soldier, sailor, airman, Coast Guardsman, or Marine, they do so for many reasons. But no matter the reasons of the individual recruit, there is one thing that unites them in everything that they will do in the uniform service to the country; The Oath of Enlistment.
It is not commonly known by the average American that when you enter the service you raise your right hand and take an oath. An oath is a very serious thing. It is more than a promise, or a contract. It is your very word. It is a statement made from your very being. To break an oath is to break faith with your own self.
The oath that every serviceman and woman takes is not to support and defend the country, nor is it to support and defend the people. The oath that is taken is to support and defend something transcendent, something larger, more dear, than the country, or The People. It is an oath to support and defend the document that gave birth to and that expanded the very ideals that this country and its people enjoy. It is the document that enunciated and enumerated all of our freedoms, rights and privileges as a nation. It is the cornerstone of this enduring experiment in democracy that has made us who and what we are as a nation. Without it, we would be just another nation among many. With it we have become something unique and special in the history of how people have been governed.
A military person takes this oath knowing that it is not just words, but that someday, it may be required of them to give their very lives in support and defense of this document. They take this with the requisite seriousness then, and countless numbers of young men and women have done so with great honor and with great sacrifice over the 237 years of our history as a nation.
On this weekend we will be celebrating another Veterans Day holiday. When you are enjoying your rest and relaxation, over the long weekend, please take a moment or two to reflect on the oath that those veterans all took and honored on our behalf. The freedoms, rights and responsibilities encompassed in the Constitution of the United States of America have been threatened in the past by "enemies foreign and domestic" and our veterans defended it with their lives. It is because of them that the hopes and dreams set down on paper in the Constitution have had the time and the security to continue to enliven the hopes and dreams of this great country.

FW: Volunteers Note Changes!!! Chapter 1076 Call for Volunteers! November Events.

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Robert Serge

VVA 17 Member

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Subject: Volunteers Note Changes!!! Chapter 1076 Call for Volunteers! November Events.
From: fbeek@aol.com
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 02:01:05 -0500

Following are the November Veterans Day Weekend Events:

Fund Raiser Albertson's Nov 7th, 8th and 9th.
1008 Nevada Way, Boulder City

Albertsons Friday, Nov 7th 0900-1100, 1100-1400,
Close 1400 to go to meet at 1500 at the Paseo Verde Library (Green Valley Parkway and Paseo Verde) Judge Stevens will be one of several giving a presentation to the Chamber of Commerce for funds. All support welcome.
Bob Lough, Neil Johnson,

Saturday, Nov 8th, 0930 meet at Henderson Amphitheater.
City of Henderson Annual Veterans Day Ceremony, Open to all members. Lets have a showing. After volunteers to Albertsons.

Albertsons Saturday, Nov 8th  Start time 1200-1500, 1500-1800.
Richard Walker, Tony Pinkard, Tom Walls


Albertsons Sunday 9th 0900-1100, 1100-1300, 1300-1500.
Tom Walls, John Scaduto, Eugene Palmer

South Point Gun Show Saturday Nov 8th & Sunday 9th
Saturday 0900-1100 Neil Johnson, 0900-1600. Lance Ryness
Sunday 0900-1500 Lance Ryness, Chad Avery, Fred Hagenbeek


VFW Post 3848 Car Show Saturday, Nov 8th, My Casino. 920 S Boulder Hwy and Palo Verde Drive.
Saturday 0900-1500, Choose your hours. Howard Howe, Bob Lough, Chad Avery.

Las Vegas Veterans Parade Tuesday, November 11, Meet 0700 at VFW Hall, leave to Parade by 0800. We will have
3 to 4 vehicles. Important is who will be coming and needing to ride.

Letter from our Chapter President regarding the Parade,
To All VVA Chapter 1076 Members, the Veterans Day Parade is on Tuesday November 11. The start of the parade will be at 10:00am until approximately 12:00 noon starting on Gass Street and Las Vegas blvd and ending on LV blvd and Freemont St. I need a DEFFENENT COUNT of how many VVA Chapter 1076 members and VVA Chapter 17 members will be attending the Parade ASAP . I will also need to know who will be able to walk the Parade ( App.1.5 miles) and who will not be able to walk the distance so transporting can be arranged . A meeting place to assemble for Car Pooling will be announced as soon as I get a Count on who will be attending. I have a couple opinions on how we can get too and from the Parade as a group but it will depend on the number of Veterans participating in the event. The Uniform for the Parade will be BLACK VVA 1076 shirts, black trousers, ( no jeans ) black shoes, black Vietnam Hats. All Medals and or Ribbons may also be worn. Let's be proud VVA Members so it's up to all of US to look sharp on a very special day. Chapter 17 please wear you WHITE VVA SHIRTS, THANK YOU ! Remember you must get back to me ASAP but NO LATER THAN SUNDAY NOV. 9th by 5:00 pm. Email - jlscaduto@msn.com
John L Scaduto President Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1076 Henderson, NV

Letter from our Chapter President regarding our Christmas Party,
Dear Members, A reminder! Christmas Time is near. Our annual VVA Chapter 1076 Christmas Party well held on December 7th (Pearl Harbor Day so you won't forget ) from 2:00 to 5:00 pm (please be on time or its KP duty ). The Party will be at GIUSEPPE'S Italian Restaurant / Bar & Grill 2630 W.Horizon Ridge (one block east of Eastern Ave ) 702-675-4487 ( in case you get lost ) Because our December meeting is Thursday Dec. 11th 5 days after the Christmas Party we must collect payments at our next meeting Thursday Nov. 13th. The price for the Christmas Party is $25.00 per person inclusive of tax and gratuity . Alcohol Beverage will be CASH on an individual basis. Please make checks payable to VVA CAPTER 1076 . I know some of our members still remember what personal checks look like from the OLD DAYS so please NO, NO, CASH ! And if you still can remember how to write please make the checks legible ! There will be a GIFT EXCHANGE after dinner so please bring Gifts. Ok, NOW LISTEN UP ! If you come alone you bring ONE GIFT----- if there are TWO of you, you bring TWO GIFTS . I will have a written test at the next meeting to make sure you understand the above ! The valve of your gifts is up to you, it's the thought that counts . We always have fun ! PLEASE KEEP YOUR GIFTS (PG14) ! To summaries this E-Mail . BRING YOUR CHECK BOOK TO THE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13th meeting. Please give your checks to me so I have a record of who's attending who's paid. Thank You and Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays . John L Scaduto President Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 1076 Henderson, NV

Vietnam Traveling Wall Will be in Laughlin Nov 8th through Nov 11.

Veterans Court, Nov 11th, 1400. Re-visit the Judge Stevens $3000 donation. This time the Press will be there. All welcome.


Riviera Gun Show Nov 15th and 16th. also with Chapter 17. More details later.


There will also be the annual Veterans Day ceremony at the Veterans Home in Boulder City at 1330 PM, Nov 11th.  The Governor will be there this year.  Everyone is welcome.  Bob Garlow

Send in your days and times. The early birds get the choice time slots! Sign up sheets at the General Meeting also.

FW: VA Mail-Order Pharmacy Receives Highest Score in Mail Order Segment of J.D. Power Study

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Robert Serge

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Subject: VA Mail-Order Pharmacy Receives Highest Score in Mail Order Segment of J.D. Power Study
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 08:26:14 -0600
To: grumpiebob@gmail.com
From: veteransaffairs@public.govdelivery.com

You are subscribed to Media Distribution List for U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. VA Mail-Order Pharmacy Receives Highest Score in Mail Order Segment of J.D. Power Study 11/07/2014 09:21 AM EST VA Mail-Order Pharmacy Receives Highest Score in Mail Order Segment of J.D. Power Study For the fifth consecutive year, the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) has scored the highest in overall satisfaction in the J.D. Power National Pharmacy Study, Mail-Order segment. This study, conducted annually, measures satisfaction among consumers who filled a mail-order prescription within the last 90 days. Ten commercial organizations were also included in the study.  "VA's first-class pharmacy services are an important component of the exceptional health care available to our Veterans," said Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Interim Under Secretary for Health. "We are proud to learn from our Veterans through this study that VA is delivering on that commitment." Customer satisfaction with Mail-Order Pharmacy is measured across four key factors: cost competitiveness, prescription delivery, prescription ordering, and customer service. VA also led the mail-order pharmacy industry nationwide in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. VA participates in this annual survey as a way to compare itself against industry leaders and to ensure VA health care meets the highest standards. With nearly 9 million Veterans enrolled, VA operates the largest integrated health care delivery system in the United States, with a mission to honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being. VA provides a broad range of primary care, specialized care, and related medical and case management services. More information is available at http://www.va.gov/health/. Veterans who wish to learn about VA pharmacy and other health benefits can find information at www.va.gov/healthbenefits/. #   #   # Update your subscriptions, modify your password or email address, or unsubscribe at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your email address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact subscriberhelp.govdelivery.com. If you are in crisis and need immediate help, please call 1-800-273-8255 and (PRESS 1) or visit http://www.veteranscrisisline.net/. If you have questions please visit va.gov/explore and refer to "FAQs and Info" and "Get Assistance."  This service is provided to you at no charge by U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Sent to grumpiebob@gmail.com on behalf of US Department of Veterans Affairs 810 Vermont Avenue, NW · Washington, DC 20420