← BACK TO VBC BLOG 7 Things Vets Should Know About VA Loans with the hot housing market, more veterans may be looking to use their VA mortgage benefits. Here, courtesy of Money Magazine is the 2021 Guide to VA Loans: 7 Tips for Veterans.  Devoting one’s

Let's hear their stories.  It was 73 years ago today that President Harry Truman signed the Women’s Armed Services Integration Act, allowing women to serve in the military as regular members.  Not all states recognize the day officially. But today let’s take a moment to listen to and honor the stories

(Malcom Browne for AP) On one of our VBC trips to Vietnam, a sight at the Pagoda of the Celestial Lady in Hue stopped me in my tracks: a baby blue Austin sedan on display beneath the Pulitzer Prize winning photo that had introduced millions of Americans to the word,

For over forty years, wounded Vietnam veteran Tommy Clack has kept up-to-date one-page data sheets accounting for the all the KIA, MIA, WIA, and captured from our nation’s wars since the American Revolution. You can see and download the data sheets here. Why does he do it? Find out tonight when at

With the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US Army was in sudden need of skilled tradesmen from across the labor market. Blacksmiths and cable splicers, illustrators and x-ray technicians, locomotive engineers and purchasing agents—if the job was done in the civilian world, the Army needed it also. MOS 3170:

Courtesy of Pete Mecca’s Veteran’s Story website archive Simon Ramos came into this world in 1932, one of twelve siblings. His childhood playground, all 566,000 acres of it, was the Y.O. Ranch on the fringes of Kerrville, TX. He recalled, “My dad was from Mexico and worked the Y.O. Ranch as