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The fellows are paid on a scale set by the hosting office, so exact amounts are unavailable, but USAJOBS lists the range at $38-51,000. A good friend of mine, Mr. John Towles, is a former fellow and now serves as Director, National Security and Foreign Affairs, for VFW, where he works on national legislative and policy issues impacting service members, veterans, and their families. A quick LinkedIn search turns up a few additional graduates of the program and their current positions: Per USAJOBS, this round of fellowships will accept applications through July 7 (applications open in May). Attach a copy of your current resume (you may include an optional cover letter in the same document as your resume), your DD-214 (Member 4 copy), and civil service preference letter showing your disability rating, which can be downloaded from eBenefits or you can provide your Disability Evaluation System determination of findings.

Based on the 2007 book by Emmy Award-winning ABC White House correspondent Martha Raddatz, the book chronicles the point in time when Sadr City moved from being a throw away deployment to one of the most dangerous and brutal places for American soldiers to serve. The mini-series focuses on April 4, 2004 – Palm Sunday – and the events that have led to its renaming in certain circles as “Black Sunday. The camera focuses on the intimate moments between family members – husband and wife, father and children, mother and son, siblings – that accompany the last moments before your service member departs on what, at best, is an entire year of absence, of distance, of lost moments, of worry, and what, at worst, is the last moment your life will ever be like it is, unchanged by gaping holes in unit formations, widowhood, and survivors’ guilt. While the larger moments – the first soldier getting wounded, the first word reaching the women at home as they come out of church – gripped me, it was the smaller details – the sweat beading on the cheek of a soldier not even old enough to shave, the quick narrowing of the eyes by the Sergeant that shows he doubts what he’s just been told, tiny brown letters spelling out a blood type on a helmet –

To better serve this population, I facilitated an MOU between Lean In and the VA’s Center for Women Veterans to create a Lean In Chapter specific to women veterans. A collaboration between Lean In Military, Lean In Women Veterans and the Think Broader Foundation, an organization focused on confronting social stigmas and bias in the media, the campaign launched on Veterans' Day last year to help change the narrative around women who serve or have served. While women are the fastest growing sub-population of our nation’s veterans, we still struggle to identify as veterans, particularly pre-9/11 era women veterans. In Women Veterans and the #IServed campaign can help women service members and women veterans advance their careers?

The VFW-SVA Fellowship is a joint venture between the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), a Congressionally-chartered non-profit veteran service organization that has been around since 1899, and Student Veterans of America (SVA), a Post-9/11 organization which focuses on veterans in higher education and officially formed in 2008. In 2015 there was a discussion about how VFW could expose more veterans to what we do during our National Legislative Conference, an annual week-long conference where more than 500 VFW members come to Washington, D. C., to meet with members of Congress to advocate on behalf of veterans, service members, and their families. By immersing the 10 selected veterans into the process of policy formulation, legislative advocacy, and the general efforts of the VFW on Capitol Hill, the idea was that we would show a side of the organization that too many either don’t know exists Applicants selected to be fellow will take the essay they sent in with their application and, working with a staff mentor who specializes in their policy area, will build this essay into a policy proposal that is 3-5 pages in length.