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FINDING THE CHAPTER NEAREST YOU
 
 
State Chapters of the United States Navy Veterans Association are designated as such in the Constitution of the Association. To become an official state chapter involves a certain amount of diligent work. The resident members of the Association in a particular state must first petition the National Association to form a local state chapter. The National Association then has a lengthy period of discussion with that emerging local leadership as to their will and abilities to fulfill the responsibilities of a state chapter charter from the National Association. Those discussions are in-depth as to local legal responsibilities, projected activities and finances. If, and after, those hurdles are passed, organizing documents are drawn up. When these meet with the approval of both the National Association and the prospective State Chapter leadership, the documents are submitted to the IRS for official IRC Sec. 501(c)(19) recognition of the State Chapter. It is only at that stage that the official appellation of "State Chapter" of the Association applies, and is recognized by, the National Association, and the local organization is considered to be chartered by the National Association as a State Chapter and  "Service Foundation" of the National Association. (Constitution of the United States Navy Veterans Association, Amendment 2).
 
State Chapters of the Association are separate legal entities from the National Association under federal and state law, with their own Bylaws and Boards of Directors, but are subject to the general supervision of the National Association. Additionally, since they are integral parts of the National Association, they are permitted in their own right to use the name "United States Navy Veterans Association" and the official logo or logos of the Association, at will.
 
Readers should also note that State Chapter "Squadrons" listed are officially committees of the pertinent State Chapter, as provided in their Bylaws, and can be created, terminated or de-activated at any time by the State Chapter leadership.
 

 
WHAT ARE CONTRIBUTION PROCESSING CENTERS?
 
 
Contribution  Processing Centers (CPCs), sometimes also referred to as Donation Processing Centers (DPCs), are physical facilities leased by the National Association, the pertinent State Chapter or an arms' length retained privatized independent accountancy entity. They are used to initially process and sort incoming campaign contributions, which are then forwarded separately to an independent accountancy entity for further processing, compilation, accounting and reporting.
 
A CPC may or may not be located in the state in which the donor resides. In certain cases, where nearby states do not have, considered separately, sufficient donor populations to economically justify separate CPCs for each state, the CPC utilized may be a regional one for all those states, located in one of those states, or in Washington, D.C. Utilizing Regional CPCs, as opposed to utilizing a CPC for each state, also has the effect of cutting down on administrative costs to the National Association or State Chapter, costs which, in one form or another, are passed on to us, so that more net proceeds from a given campaign can be used for Association program services.
 
Where an accounting firm has been retained by the Association or State Chapter, and the firm has clients other than the Association, the firm may opt to utilize the same CPC, but not the same mailstop within the CPC, for more than one of its non-profit organization (NPO) clients. This practice may appear awkward to some, but in fact it creates a more efficient relationship between the firm and the CPC, an efficiency which eventually can also result in lower administrative costs being passed on to all the NPO clients of that accountancy center.
 
Neither the National Association nor any of its State Chapters does fundraising campaigns in conjunction with any NPO outside the Association family. In the latter case the words "United States Navy Veterans Association" will appear in the title of the organization. Neither the National Association nor any of its subordinate organizations has any cross-controlling relationship of any kind with any other NPO, regardless of whether the other NPO may utilize the same CPC or not. The fact that an established accountancy firm elects to contract with more than one NPO (in which case two or more separate and independent NPOs may be using the same CPC, but not the same mailstop within that CPC) is both a right given such a firm under the Contracts Clause of the United States Constitution, and also entirely proper in the eyes of the Association. Such a practice also has the additional benefit of permitting an NPO to research and investigate the bona fides of such a firm through previous clients, something urged on all NPOs in advance by numerous government regulatory bodies.
 
 
Please DO NOT USE the Contribution Processing Center addresses listed on the State Chapters Page to mail in a written Do Not Contact request, or for any form of correspondence other than to mail in contributions. The Contribution Processing Centers are not set up to process such requests or to handle such correspondence.  Instead, use the instructions found on our Contributions Page to make your Do Not Contact request, or use the mailing address for other forms of correspondence for the pertinent State Chapter found at the bottom of this page, and also on the Contact Us Page.
 
 

 
 
 
FINDING THE CHAPTER NEAREST YOU:

 

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ALABAMA CHAPTER  alabamae2.gif

 Chapter Commander: Gaither Longfellow

Contribution Processing Center:

23 Alafaya Woods Bl #263

Oviedo, FL 32765-6335

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ALASKA CHAPTER            3dflagsdotcom_us_ak_2fawm.gif

Commander: Bob "Boats" Rankles, USN (ret.)

Contribution Processing Centers:

645 G Street, Site 100, #688

Anchorage AK 99501

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ARIZONA CHAPTER              arizonae2.gif

 

 

Contribution Processing Centers:

122 N. 2nd St Ste A-407

Phoenix AZ 85004

 

Chapter Commander: Ben Sanchez

Phoenix Tel: (602) 230-4130

Phoenix Fax (602) 212-4145

The Arizona Chapter proudly donated $5,000 to restore the debilitated flagpoles at the Sunland Memorial Park Veterans' Cemetery at Sun City in 2006:



































 

Arizona Department of Veterans' Services

 

The National Association also does its own vehicle and boat donation program to benefit its California Chapter, in the  area  Phoenix west to the Colorado and south to Yuma, and we do our own pickups. For more information about this program, or to make a vehicle donation, you can call our Car Donation Program toll free at 
1-888-250-4490.

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ARKANSAS CHAPTER  arkansae2.gif

 Chapter Commander: Joseph Bondy

Contribution Processing Center:

334 E. Kearney #303

Springfield, MO 65803-3018

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CALIFORNIA CHAPTER  califc.gif

 Chapter Commander: Raul Hernandez

San Diego Tel. (858)492-8095

San Diego Fax (858)492-8460

 

Veterans who are

                  residents of California who are rated 40% overall disabled by the VA as a
 result of a service connected (SC) determination are entitled to the
 following state and federal benefits, lisyed together. This list was last updated October 6, 2007:
 
1.     
                  Eligibility for additional allowance for dependents—spouse,
 children, dependent parent(s). 
2.      Eligibility for additional aid and attendance allowance for
                  disabled
 spouse. 
3.      VA fee basis outpatient medical card
                  for SC condition(s) requiring
 treatment. 
4.      Enrollment in VA Healthcare Priority
                  Group 2 (no healthcare
 co-payments required; pharmacy co-payments
                  required for NSC medications, except
 for former POWs).
                  
5.     
                  Eligibility for sensorineural aids—hearing aids, eyeglasses, contact
 lenses—without regard to whether the condition producing need for such
 is service-connected. 
6.      Eligibility for Service-Disabled Veterans’ Life Insurance (RH). 
7.      Possible eligibility for special monthly
                  compensation for loss or
 loss of use of a creative organ;
                  loss of a female breast; or, loss or
 loss of use of
                  one foot or one eye. 
8.     
                  Possible eligibility for payment of annual clothing allowance for
 specified SC disorders resulting in need for prosthetic appliance or use
 of a wheelchair, or for certain skin conditions. 
9.      Possible eligibility for one-time assistance in purchase of
 specially-adapted automobile. 
10.     Possible eligibility for Automobile Adaptive Equipment Allowance.
                  
11.    
                  Eligibility for education or training under VA Vocational

                  Rehabilitation. 
12.    
                  Golden Access Passport for U.S.
                  National Parks. 
13.    
                  Eligibility for 10-point preference for Federal Civil Service
 employment. Under certain circumstances, may be employed on a noncompetitive
 basis. 
14.    
                  Eligibility for 15-point preference for State of California
 employment. 
15.     Home loan guaranty funding fee exemption. 
16.     Possible eligibility for Home Improvement
                  and Structural Alteration
 (HISA) home modification grant. 
17.     Eligibility for CAL-VET College Tuition and
                  Fee Waiver for children
 (Plan B). 
18.     Possible eligibility for DMV Disabled Person
                  Parking Placard. 
19.    
                  If a 20-year military retiree, possible eligibility for CRSC. 
20.     Possible eligibility for the California Disabled
                  Veteran Business
 Enterprise
                  (DVBE) and the Federal Service Disabled Veteran Owned

                  Business (SDVOB) programs. 

 

 

 
 
Veterans who are
 residents of California who are rated 50%
                  overall disabled by the VA as a
 result of a service
                  connected (SC) determination are entitled to the

                  following state and federal benefits listed together. This list was last updated October 6, 2007:
 
1.      Eligibility for additional allowance
                  for dependents—spouse,
 children, dependent
                  parent(s). 
2.     
                  Eligibility for additional aid and attendance allowance for disabled
 spouse. 
3.     
                  VA fee basis outpatient medical card (all conditions requiring
 treatment, whether SC or not, except dental). 
4.      Enrollment in VA Healthcare Priority Group 1 (no co-payments
 required). 
5.     
                  Eligibility for sensorineural aids—hearing aids, eyeglasses, contact
 lenses—without regard to whether the condition producing need for such
 is service-connected. 
6.      Eligibility for Service-Disabled Veterans’ Insurance (RH). 
7.      Possible eligibility for special monthly
                  compensation for loss or
 loss of use of a creative organ;
                  loss of a female breast; or, loss or
 loss of use of
                  one foot or one eye. 
8.     
                  Possible eligibility for payment of annual clothing allowance for
 specified SC disorders resulting in need for prosthetic appliance or use
 of a wheelchair, or for certain skin conditions. 
9.      Possible eligibility for one-time assistance in purchase of
 specially-adapted automobile. 
10.     Possible eligibility for Automobile Adaptive Equipment Allowance.
                  
11.    
                  Eligibility for education or training under VA Vocational

                  Rehabilitation. 
12.    
                  Golden Access Passport for U.S.
                  National Parks. 
13.    
                  California State Park
                  pass (requires SC wartime-incurred
 disability) ($3.50
                  one-time fee). Entitles the holder to the use of all basic

                  State Park System operated facilities at no further charge. Not valid at
 units operated by local government, private agencies or
 concessionaires."
14.     Reduced fee for hunting license. 
15.     Reduced fee for basic sport fishing license.
                  
16.    
                  Eligibility for 10-point preference for Federal Civil Service
 employment. Under certain circumstances, may be employed on a noncompetitive
 basis. 
17.    
                  Eligibility for 15-point preference for State of California
 employment. 
18.     Home loan guaranty funding fee exemption. 
19.     Possible eligibility for Home Improvement
                  and Structural Alteration
 (HISA) home modification grant. 
20.     Eligibility for CAL-VET College Tuition and
                  Fee Waiver for children
 (Plan B). 
21.     Possible eligibility for DMV Disabled Person
                  Parking Placard. 
22.    
                  If a 20-year military retiree, possible eligibility for CDRP or

                  CRSC. 

 

 
 
 Veterans who are residents of California who are rated 60% overall disabled 
by
                  the VA as a result of a service connected (SC) determination are entitled 
to
                  the following state and federal benefits, listed together. This list was 
last
                  updated October 6, 2007: 
 
1.      Eligibility for a rating of total disability because of individual

                  unemployability. 
2.     
                  Eligibility for additional allowance for dependents—spouse,

                  children, dependent parent(s). 
3.      Eligibility for additional aid and attendance allowance for disabled

                  spouse. 
4.     
                  VA fee basis outpatient medical card (all conditions requiring

                  treatment, whether SC or not, except dental). 
5.      Enrollment in VA Healthcare Priority Group 1 (no co-payments

                  required). 
6.     
                  Eligibility for sensorineural aids—hearing aids, eyeglasses, contact

                  lenses—without regard to whether the condition producing need for such

                  is service-connected. 
7.     
                  Eligibility for Service-Disabled Veterans’ Insurance (RH). 
8.      Possible eligibility for special monthly compensation for loss
                  or
 loss of use of a creative organ; loss of a female
                  breast; or, loss or
 loss of use of one hand, one foot,
                  or one eye. 
9.     
                  Possible eligibility for payment of annual clothing allowance for

                  specified SC disorders resulting in need for prosthetic appliance or use

                  of a wheelchair, or for certain skin conditions. 
10.     Possible eligibility for one-time assistance in purchase of

                  specially-adapted automobile. 
11.     Possible eligibility for Automobile Adaptive Equipment Allowance. 
12.     Eligibility for education or training under VA Vocational

                  Rehabilitation. 
13.    
                  Golden Access Passport for U.S.
                  National Parks. 
14.    
                  California State Park
                  pass (requires SC wartime-incurred
 disability) ($3.50
                  one-time fee). Entitles the holder to the use of all basic

                  State Park System operated facilities at no further charge. Not valid at

                  units operated by local government, private agencies or concessionaires.
15.     Reduced fee for hunting license. 
16.     Reduced fee for basic sport fishing license. 
17.     Eligibility for 10-point preference for Federal Civil Service

                  employment. Under certain circumstances, may be employed on a noncompetitive

                  basis. 
18.    
                  Eligibility for 15-point preference for State of California

                  employment. 
19.    
                  Home loan guaranty funding fee exemption. 
20.     Possible eligibility for Home Improvement and Structural Alteration

                  (HISA) home modification grant. 
21.     Eligibility for CAL-VET College Tuition and Fee Waiver for children

                  (Plan B). 
22.    
                  Possible eligibility for DMV Disabled Person Parking Placard. 
23.     If a 20-year military retiree, possible eligibility for CDRP or

                  CRSC. 
24.    
                  Possible eligibility for the California Disabled Veteran Business

                  Enterprise (DVBE) and the Federal Service Disabled Veteran
                  Owned
 Business (SDVOB) programs. 

 

 

Contribution Processing Centers:

The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

For Donations Only:

120 South Church St #131

Visalia CA 93291

 

 

California Department of Veterans Affairs

 

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COLORADO DIVISION                   coloflag.gif
 
Mailing Address:
US Navy Veterans Association
Colorado Division
7645 N. Union Bl. #150
Colorado Springs CO 80920
 
Denver Tel. 303.352.1965
Colorado Springs Fax  719.590.7555
 

Contribution Processing Centers:

The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

For Donations Only:

PO Box 5023

Denver, CO 80217

 
The Colorado Division is an intergral division of the National Association and not a separately recognized IRS 501(c)(19) organization in its own right. Only the National Association conducts solicitation campaigns in Colorado.
 
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Contribution Processing Centers:

U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Connecticut Chapter

34 Shunpike Rd Ste 3-162

Cromwell CT 06416

 

65 High Ridge Rd. #187

Stamford CT 06905

 

Hartford Tel. (860) 586-1100

 Chapter Commander: Rick Taylor

 

Connecticut Department of Veterans' Affairs

 

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Contribution Processing Centers:

U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Delaware Chapter

4142 Ogletown Stanton Rd #720

Newark DE 19713

 

4600 Wisconsin Ave NW #262

Washington DC 20016

 

Wilmington Tel. (302) 295-7051

 Chapter Commander: Jim Anderson

 

The Delaware Chapter is recognized by the State of Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs  on its official Veterans Service Organization List in The Centurion as providing services of merit to Delaware veterans.

 

 

VETERANS ENTITLEMENTS
COVERED BY
DELAWARE LAW

 

 

EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS FOR
CHILDREN OF DECEASED
VETERANS, ETC.

 

The State of Delaware provides educational benefits for the children of deceased veterans of the military services of the United States, military service personnel held prisoner of war and military service personnel officially declared to be missing in action. In order to qualify for this entitlement an applicant shall be: the child of a member of the armed forces who was killed while on active duty or who died from disease, wounds, injuries or disabilities arising or resulting from performance of duty; a member of the armed forces who is being held, or who was held prisoner of war; or a member of the armed forces officially declared missing in action; a person who at the time of application for benefits is at least 16 years of age, but not more than 24 years of age, and who shall have been a resident of the State for at least three (3) years prior to the date of application; attending or admitted for attendance at an educational institution beyond the high school level in a program not to exceed four (4) years in duration. The per pupil benefits may include funds for the payment of room, board, tuition and required institutional fees for an academic year. Benefits shall be limited to four (4) years of training or education. The amount of benefit per pupil shall not exceed $525 per year or the amount of tuition per academic year, whichever is greater. Benefits are administered by the Delaware Postsecondary Education Commission. (Title 14, Chapter 34, Sections 3451-3455)

 

 

 EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS FOR
ACTIVE MEMBERS OF THE
DELAWARE NATIONAL GUARD

 

Any active member of a federally recognized unit of the Delaware National Guard, who meets the requirements for satisfactory membership as defined by the Adjutant General of the Delaware National Guard, shall be eligible for funding support by the Delaware National Guard for certain post-secondary education tuition and fees. (Title 14, Chapter 34, Sections 3480-3481)

 

COPIES OF
STATEMENT OF SERVICE

 

The Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs has established a repository for veterans' "Statement of Service" or similar documentary verification of active armed service. Records maintained are World War I through the Vietnam era. In 1987 the State of Delaware again started keeping records and have records from 1987 to present. (Title 29, Chapter 87, Section 8721)

HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA FOR WWII
VETERANS

 

House Bill No. 60 provides a High School Diploma to those World War II veterans who did not graduate from high school due to their military service. Any World War 11 veteran who performed wartime service between December 7, 1941 - December 31, 1946 shall be eligible to receive a High School Diploma. World War II veterans interested in receiving their diploma, may contact the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs at (800) 344­

9900 or (302) 739-2792.

 

 

FREE DEATH CERTIFICATES
FOR VETERANS

 

The State Registrar shall furnish free of charge to the relative of a veteran, one time, a certified copy of the veteran's certificate of death providing that said certified copy is essential to the settlement of a claim involving the settlement of the veteran's affairs. All other copies shall be issued at the statutory fee. (Title 16, Chapter 31, Section 3132c)

 

 

NO CHARGE FOR NOTARY SERVICES FOR VETERANS

 

Service organizations' appointed notaries public may notarize documents and papers in connection with and for the benefit of any veteran, their families, or dependents. These notaries public shall make no charge for any service rendered in connection with filing claims on behalf of the veteran, their families, or dependents. The Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs provides free notary service. (Title 29, Chapter 43, Sections 4305 and 4312)


STATE VETERANS HOME FUND

 

House Bill No. 500 establishes a Delaware Veterans Home Fund within the Secretary of State's office. The fund provides for individuals who claim an overpayment of taxes on their income tax return to voluntarily designate a tax deductible contribution to the Veterans Home. The fund will be used for the construction, operation and maintenance of a Veterans Home in the State of Delaware. All contributions can be forwarded to the following address: Delaware Veterans Home Fund, Department of State, 401

Federal Street, Suite 3, Dover, DE 19901.

 

 

VETERANS PREFERENCE -
ADMISSION TO
GOVERNOR BACON
HEALTH CENTER

 

The Department of Health and Social Services shall give veterans of World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam era who are eligible for admission to the Health Center a preference over other persons with respect to admission thereto. (Title 16, Chapter 53, Section 5323)

PENSION BENEFITS FOR PARAPLEGIC VETERANS

 

Each paraplegic veteran eligible for benefits hereunder shall receive a pension from the State of $3,000 per year payable in equal monthly installments at the end of each month in which such veteran is eligible. The veteran must file evidence with the Pension Office that: he/she is a paraplegic and fully disabled to the extent that he/she has no voluntary control over either of his/her legs, and he/she is listed on the rolls of the U.S. Veterans Administration as totally disabled for the cause, and the disability is a direct result of service in the armed forces of the United States while the United States was officially at war or during a period when the United States was engaged in hostilities with another nation as a member of the United Nations. (Title 20, Chapter 10, Section 1001).

 

 

 

 DELAWARE VETERANS MEMORIAL
CEMETERY
- ELIGIBILITY

 

Veterans and members of the Armed Forces of the U.S. who qualify under the following:

1. HONORABLE MILITARY SERVICE

A person who served on "active duty" 180 days or more other than for training, as defined - Section 101(21) Title 38 U.S. Code, as a member of the Armed Forces of the U.S. and whose service was terminated Honorably; a person who dies under honorable conditions while serving on active duty in an Armed Force of the U.S.; a member of the Merchant Marines; a member of the Reserve component of the Armed Forces, the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard, and the reserve of the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, or Coast Guard, who dies under honorable conditions while serving on active duty for training or full-time service. Members of the National Guard or Reserve forces of the U.S. who at the time of death was entitled to retired pay under Chapter 67 of Title 10 USC or would have been entitled to retired pay under that chapter but for the fact that the person was under 60 years of age; and provided that the Delaware residency requirements are met. Members of those organizations whose death occurs while hospitalized or undergoing treatment at the expense of the U.S. for injury or disease contracted or incurred under honorable conditions while serving on such duty or performing travel directly to or from that duty or service may also be eligible, a member of the Delaware Army National Guard or Air National Guard who has served on full-time duty as a member of the U.S. Army or Air Force (Federalized) and was not under the direct order of the Governor of Delaware, may also be eligible.

2. LEGAL RESIDENCE IN DELAWARE

The term "Legal Resident" most usually means that residence which is the principle residence or abode of the veteran, such as a residence used to establish voting and other rights in a State. The evidence must establish that the veteran was living (or had lived for the specific period of time) in Delaware with the intention of living therein in the exclusion of legal residence in any other jurisdiction. To meet the legal residency requirement (in addition to the required active military service that was honorable) the veteran must have been: a legal resident of Delaware at the time of death, or a legal resident for a period of 10 years (or more), or a legal resident of Delaware when he or she entered the Armed Forces of the U.S. or when an honorably discharged veteran was a legal resident of Delaware for less than 10 years, the Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs, or its designee, may determine whether there are compelling reasons for waiving the 10 year resident requirement.

3. THE SPOUSE WIDOW, WIDOWER OR DEPENDENT MINOR CHILDREN

An eligible veteran's immediate family member­spouse, widow, widower, or minor children who are under 21, unmarried and dependent of the veteran-are eligible for interment. In addition, an unmarried adult child of an eligible veteran, who became permanently incapable of self-support because of a physical or mental disability before attaining the age of 21 years, may also be eligible for interment. (Title 20, Chapter 12, Sections 1201-1204)

 

INDIGENT VETERAN BURIAL

 

The Adjutant General shall provide out of funds appropriated to the Delaware National Guard for the proper interment of each and every indigent soldier, sailor or marine who shall have served in the Army, Marines, Navy or Air Force of the U.S. in any war in which it has been engaged and been honorably discharged therefrom, who shall at the time of his or her death be a resident of this State leaving insufficient means to defray the expenses of interment. (Title 20, Chapter 9, Section 901)

 

 

 

SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES FOR
FORMER PRISONERS OF WAR,
MISSING-IN-ACTION,
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS,
DISABLED VETERANS,
MEMBERS OF THE DELAWARE
NATIONAL GUARD & RESERVES,
VALOR, RETIRED MILITARY &
KOREAN WAR VETERANS

 

 

The owner of any private passenger vehicle or a truck with a 3/4 ton or less manufacturer's rated capacity may apply to the Department of Transportation for the assignment to that vehicle of a special Prisoner-of-War (POW), Missing-in-Action (MIA), Purple Heart or disabled veteran (DAV) registration number (Title 21, Chapter 21, S ions 2137 & 2138 and Title 21, Chapter 21, Sections 2 39, 2139(a), (b), (d), (e), (g) & 2164). Eligibility information available through the Division of Motor Vehicles at (302) 739-4440.

REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION
OF MOTOR VEHICLES OF
DISABLED VETERANS

 

Any motor vehicle owned by a disabled veteran who shall ever have been eligible for "adaptive equipment" benefits under Title 38 U.S.C. (which includes, but is not limited to power steering, power brakes, power window lifts, power seats, and special equipment necessary to assist the eligible person into and out of the automobile or other conveyance) shall be registered, but shall be exempted from the payment of registration fees, provided that such exemption shall be limited to one (1) automobile per eligible veteran at any one (1) time. The Division of Motor Vehicles shall furnish, without cost, number and registration plates for all such vehicles of such design as will distinguish them from other plates for which fees are paid. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as exempting such vehicles from the requirement of inspection. (Title 21, Chapter 21, Section 2164)

 

 

STATE EMPLOYMENT
VETERANS PREFERENCE

 

The rules shall provide for preference to be given to veterans of the armed forces of the U.S. who served during wartime. Such rules shall provide that: Preference shall be confined to original entrance and shall not be applied to promotion within the classified service or to retention in case of reduction in force; Preference shall be granted only in the form of credits to be added to earned ratings in examinations, with disabled veterans receiving no more than 10 points and other veterans no more than 5 points. A definition of a disabled veteran shall be set forth in the rules; All veterans shall be required to obtain a passing examination mark before preference credits. Employees in the classified service who, while in good standing, leave or have left the state service to engage in military service shall be given credit for seniority purposes for the time served in the armed forces not to exceed three (3) years. Any preference points for which a veteran would qualify after complying with the provisions above, may be claimed by his or her unmarried widow or widower providing he or she achieves a passing examination grade. (Title 29, Chapter 59, Section 5935)

 

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

 

Disabled and Vietnam era veterans are included in the State Affirmative Action Plan signed by the Governor. (Executive Order 10)

CREDITED MILITARY SERVICE;
ELIGIBILITY

 

Credited service for veterans shall mean: Those who first became an employee before July 1, 1976, full-time active duty, not in excess of 5 years, in the armed forces of the U.S. during time of war or national emergency, provided that the individual became an employee within five (5) years after completion of his or her tour of duty; or within five (5) years after his or her completion of a course of professional or vocational training, if such course was begun within five (5) years after completion of his or her tour of duty, except that the aforesaid five (5) year period within which the individual must become an employee shall not apply to full-time officers and members of the National Guard of the State who were active members of the State Employee's Pension Plan on June 1, 1970. (Title 29, Chapter 55, Section 5501)

 

 

 

 AUCTIONEER AND BOOK AGENT
EXEMPTION FOR VETERANS

 

No honorably discharged soldier or sailor shall bE required to procure any license to follow the occupation of canvassing for the sale of books or for the occupatior commonly known as that of "book agent" or for the occupation of auctioneer. The certificate of honorable discharge of any such soldier or sailor shall be conclusive evidence of the right of such soldier or sailor to follow the occupations herein before mentioned without having procured a license thereof. (Title 30, Chapter 21, Section 2116)

HUNTING, TRAPPING AND FISHING
LICENSES

 

Any member of the armed forces of the United States; of America while actually stationed within the State shall) be deemed a resident of this State for the purpose of: obtaining a license to hunt, trap and fish in this State. (Title 7, Chapter 5, Section 505)

Any veteran having at least a 60% service-connected disability (certified by the Veterans Administration), or 65 years or older, or are blind, are exempt from the licensing requirements. (Title 7, Chapter 5, Section 502) (To obtain a permit please contact DCVA at (302) 739-2792)

MODIFICATIONS TO TAXABLE INCOME

 

Persons under age 60 receiving pensions from employers, the United States, the State or any subdivision thereof, may deduct up to $2,000 off of their federal adjusted gross income. Amounts received as pension by persons age 60 or older from employers, the United States, the State or any subdivision thereof may deduct up to $12,500 off of their federal adjusted gross income. For more information contact the Department of Revenue at (302) 739-5251. (Title 30, Chapter 11, Section 11 06(b)(3)

 

The information provided above is a consolidated version of Delaware Code and other Laws/Executive Orders as they pertain to State Veterans Benefits and Entitlements. For further information about this or other questions pertaining to Delaware Veterans Benefits please call (302) 739-2792.

 

 

 

 DIRECTORY OF DELAWARE LAWS
RELATING TO
VETERANS

DELAWARE CODE ANNOTATED

 

1.      Title 1, Chapter 5, Section 501. Veterans Day - Legal Holiday.

2. Title 6, Chapter 33, Section 3336 to 5331. Unauthorized use of veterans organizations insignia - penalty.

3. Title 7, Chapter 5, Section 502, paragraph g thru j and Section 505. Hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses.

4.      Title 7, Chapter 47, Section 4701(a), (5), (A). State public park fee waiver for veterans organizations.

5.      Title 9, Chapter 81, Sections 8103-8104. Property tax exemption - organizations.

6. Title 14, Chapter 34, Sections 3480-3481. Education benefits for active members of the Delaware National Guard.

7.      Title 14, Chapter 34, Sections 3451-3455. Educational benefits for children of deceased veterans, and others.

8.      Title 16, Chapter 31, Section 3138a. Free death certificates for veterans.

9. Title 16, Chapter 53, Section 5323. Veterans preference - admission to Governor Bacon Health Center.

10. Title 19, Chapter 7, Section 717. Discrimination in employment - veterans special rights of preference.

11. Title 20, Chapter 9, Section 901-904. Indigent veteran burial; military funerals; unlawful use of veterans organizations insignia - penalty.

12. Title 20, Chapter 10, Section 1001. Paraplegic veterans benefits.

13. Title 20, Chapter 12, Section 1201-1204. Delaware Veterans Cemetery established -operation and eligibility

14. Title 21, Chapter 21, Sections 2137, 2138 and Title 21, Chapter 21, Sections 2139 (a) & (b), (d), (e) & (g). Special license plates for former Prisoners of War, Missing-in-Action, Purple Heart recipients and Disabled Veterans, Delaware National Guard and Reserves, Valor, Retired Military & Korean War Veterans.

15. Title 21, Chapter 21, Sections 2164. Registration and inspection of motor vehicles of disabled veterans.

16. Title 22, Chapter 1, Section 109. Municipal park fee waiver for veterans organizations.

17. Title 28, Chapter 9, Section 901. Licenses for shows and other exhibitions.

18. Title 28. Chapter 11, Sections 1101-1140. Bingo and charitable gambling - eligible organizations; licenses, etc.

19. Title 29, Chapter 43, Sections 4305. Appointment of notaries for certain service organizations; limitations.

20. Title 29, Chapter 55, Sections 5501, (b), (4), & (8) also 5522(c). Employees pension plan - credited military service; eligibility.

21. Title 29, Chapter 55, Section 5501 (4). State employment - veterans' preference.

22. Title 29, Chapter 63, Section 6314. Budget Director - Limitation on power to investigate, re: veterans organizations.

23. Title 29, Chapter 87, Sections 8720-8725. Delaware Commission of Veterans Affairs. Established composition and powers.

24. Title 30, Chapter 21, Section 2116. Auctioneer and book agent licensing exemption for veterans.

25. Title 30, Chapter 23, Section 2301(p). Exemption from occupational licenses and fees.

26. Title 30, Chapter 1 1., Section 1106(b) (3). Modifications to Taxable Income.

27. Executive Order 10 -Disabled and Vietnam era veterans included in State Affirmative Action Plan.

28. House Bill No. 500 - Delaware Veterans Home Fund.

29. House Bill No. 60 - High School Diplomas for World War 11 Veterans.

 

 

 

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Mailing Address:

U.S. Navy Veterans Association, D.C. Chapter

1718 M St NW #275

Washington DC 20036

 

Chapter Commander: Frank Washington

(202) 736-1725 Tel

(202) 785-3607 Fax

 

Some Active-Duty Navy Members of the Association, pictured below, in attendance at the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue in the District, Fall 2006. The Association, which is a sponsor of the Memorial, maintains its Office in the District about six blocks from the US Navy Memorial:

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FLORIDA CHAPTER       floridac.gif

- "U.S.S. Cole Chapter"
 
With Squadrons in Miami, Tampa Bay, Mayport, Orlando, Key West, Tallahassee, Pensacola, and at Florida State University    
 
                            
 
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Mailing Address:

U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Florida Chapter

301 W. Platt Street, Ste 160

Tampa FL 33606

 

 

Orlando Squadron:

1221 West Colonial Dr

Orlando FL 32804

Orlando Tel: (407) 426-1115
 

 

Contribution Processing Centers:

The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

 

23 Alafaya Woods Blvd #263

Oviedo FL 32765-6335

 

1700 N. Monroe St. #11-127

Tallahassee FL 32303

        
 
 
 
 
 
 Chapter Commander: Bill Abrams
 
  • Florida House of Representatives
  • Florida Senate
  • Find Your Legislator - (Online Sunshine)

    Hillsborough County, Florida offers an Active Military Combat Grant for military members who deployed to a combat zone more than 45 days in a calendar year, as of 2009. It is their way of showing support to our military members who could receive up to $1,500. It is simple: provide proof of active military service in a combat zone and other documents. You have up to 2 years to apply, and that may be extended under extenuating circumstances. For more information, or to apply, you may contact http://www.hillsboroughcountry.org/veteransaffairs or call Hillsborough County Veterans Affairs at (813) 975-2181.

    - submitted by Jim Norman, Hillsborough County, Florida Commissioner

     

    U.S. Navy Base Jacksonville

    Quarterdecks Transportation:

    NAS Jacksonville  912-542-2338

    Naval Station Mayport 912-270-5401

    Sub Base Kings Bay 912-673-2020

     

    Veterans interested in joining the Naval Reserve program should contact:

    NC1 Linda Heid
    2750 Southshore Blvd.
    Macdill AFB, FL 33621
    813-376-9159


    * Location: MACDILL AFB
    * Compensation: monthly pay, military ID,
        retirement,college money
    * This is a part-time job.
    * This is a contract job.

    For specialized information on VA mortgages and re-mortgaging in the Tampa Bay area, tailored to your specific needs, please call Jason Trotman at 813-391-5005; or call Tim Curtis, a former USMC CWO, at 813-546-4620. The information both provide on this subject to veterans who use this reference point is absolutely free of charge, and there is no obligation to use either  Jason or Tim for any of your VA mortgage needs.

     

    The Florida Chapter also does its own vehicle and boat donation program, in the triangular  area from St. Augustine south to West Palm, and then west to Orlando. For more information about this program, or to make a vehicle donation, you can call 1-800-580-NAVY, or you can access the vehicle donation program online at its official website, NavyCars.org.

    The Florida Chapter also does its own USKids.Patriotism program in and for the grade schools and high schools of Florida (Grades K-12). Commencing January 1, 2007, a Florida public, private or charter (no home schools) grade school or high school, which requests the same by telephoning the Chapter at its Orlando telephone number listed above, will be donated without any charge, a 22" x 28" mahogany framed, matted reproduction of the classic William E. Marshall portrait of George Washington produced by the Portraits of Patriots program, with a commemorative Association patriotic plaque with the name of the school included. Mounting costs are the  responsibility of the school.

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    For 2,000 years, since Cincinnatus, a farmer appointed a general by the Senators of the Roman Republic, who successfully defended Rome against its enemies, resigned to return to his plow, no great political leader had voluntarily relinquished power until General George Washington did so at the founding of this Republic, the United States of America, at the end of his second term as President.

    Upon his death in 1799, Congress wanted to bury President Washington under the Capitol in a tomb which could be viewed perpetually by the American public from the floor above. The sarcophagus Congress built can still be viewed in the basement of that building.

    In accordance with Washington's wishes, however, that the Nation not turn itself into a monument to any one man, our first President, instead, still remains at rest today at his farm in Mount Vernon, Virginia.

    Washington still lives, though, all the same, because of his leadership during the Revolution and the first eight years of the Republic, in the memory of the American people, and will continue to do so forever. It is to that end that this program is offered to the schoolchildren of Florida, for free, by the Florida Chapter.

    Since the name of the school has to be separately imprinted on the plaque in each case, delivery time will be approximately six weeks or longer. Due to funding restraints, the Chapter currently and regrettably must limit this program to the first ten (10) schools requesting to be included in this patriotic charitable service program each calendar year. The Chapter only has sufficient volunteer staff to get back in touch with the first qualifying ten applicants.

     

    The Florida Chapter is also the official sponsor of the annual February 15 wreath laying ceremony at the USS Maine memorial statue in Key West cemetery. This statue is the largest private cemetery memorial to the sailors of our battleship Maine who were killed in Havana Harbor on the evening of February 15, 1898, in the first act of modern terrorism directed at the United States. May God Bless the Maine, and May God Bless our Navy.

      

     

     

    The Florida Chapter, a grant-making authority, proudly made a $5,000 grant in 2007 to the Green Armada, an IRC Sec. 501(c)(3) organization, for their work in cleaning up Florida's coastal and intercoastal waterways, an acitivity encompassed within the purposes of the Chapter's Mission Statement:

    .pond/greenarmada3.jpg.w300h225.jpg  Mayor Rick Baker of St. Petersburg and dignitaries of the Green Armada, in attendance with representatives of the Florida Chapter, March 2007, at the unveling of the Green Armada's first ship. Our logo is barely visble in this picture in the lower right of the banner.

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    The Florida Chapter proudly made a $5,000 grant in 2007 to the Tampa Bay Symphony Orchestra for their work in portraying classical and patriotic music, and teaching the same, all without charge, to the young population of the Tampa Bay communities.

     

    The Florida Chapter also annually co-sponsors, along with the TECO Energy Company, the Annual Independence Day Barbecue Cook-Out and Clothing Distribution Program for our needy veterans at the VA's James A. Haley Hospital in Tampa. Consider this to be a call to action to come out and volunteer as a server or to participate in this event:

    "We will be having our yearly cookout for the Veterans on June 17th, 2009, at the Tampa VA Hospital.  It would be great if anyone wants to volunteer to help cook, serve and visit the Veterans on this day.

    We will package ribs, potatoes and our special beans in individual containers, and then deliver to each Veteran.  This is a very rewarding experience to have the opportunity to spend the day doing something for Veterans after all they’ve done for us.

    If you can volunteer your time this year please contact

    Butch Durrance at (813) 532-7192."

     

    Our Independence Day is July 4, 1776. On that date, our Continental Congress, in the first official government document of these United States, declared we were independent of a self-appointed king three thousand miles across an ocean who decreed that men, women and children here could be taxed without personally being heard on the subject, and that he had the right to pound down the doors of our houses, search our homes, and station his troops in them; that there was only one state religion, his; and that people here who said otherwise, were traitors who should be hanged.

     

    Our Founding Fathers of this Republic said: "No," period, to all of that.

     

    They were right then.

     

    And they are right today.

     

    When Florida first applied to join the Union, it submitted to the U.S. Congress the following state motto:

    "Leave Us Alone."

     




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    GEORGIA CHAPTER  georgia_2003b.gif

     Chief Veteran Service Officer: Dutch Schmidt

    Atlanta Tel. (770) 621-4685

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    334 E. Kearney #303

    Springfield MO 65803

     

    The Georgia Chapter is recognized by the Georgia Department of Veterans Services on its Veteran Service Organizations Commanders' List. 

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    Honolulu Tel: (808) 440-4650

     Chapter Commander: John Kimura

      Chapter Lt. Commander: Ed Kinimaka

      Chapter CFO: Pat Timmerman

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    1050 Bishop St. #436

    Honolulu HI 96813

     

    The Hawai'i Chapter and its National Association, regardless of the outright misrepresentations of fact, unheard of anywhere else in America, printed in the e-version of the Honolulu Star Bulletin in 2009, are proud to be a $10,000 grantor to the USS Arizona Memorial Memorial at Pearl:

    USS Arizona

    New York Harbor, 1916


    ON DECEMBER 7, 1941, A DATE THAT WILL FOREVER LIVE IN INFAMY, NAVAL AND AIR FORCES OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE SUDDENLY AND DELIBERATELY ATTACKED THE U.S. PACIFIC FLEET AT PEARL HARBOR. THE SHIPS BOMBED AT PEARL THAT MORNING, FROM THEIR POSITIONS WEST TO EAST, CLOCKWISE AROUND FORD ISLAND, WERE: the MEDUSA, the CURTISS, the TANGIER, the UTAH, the RALEIGH, the DETROIT, the DOBBIN, the WHITNEY, the NEVADA, the ARIZONA, the VESTAL, the TENNESSEE, the WEST VIRGINIA, the MARYLAND, (the Maryland and West Virginia were "Colorado" class battleships) the OKLAHOMA, the NEOSHO, the CALIFORNIA, the NEW ORLEANS, and the SAN FRANCISCO. 

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    1,177 men died on board  the U.S.S. ARIZONA (BB39) alone, including ADM David C. Kidd, Battleship Division 1 Commander, ARIZONA's Commanding Officer, CAPT Franklin Van Valkenburgh, and the entire USS Arizona band, at their stations passing ammunition under Turret Gun 1.

    400 Sailors were trapped inside the ARIZONA's hull as she sank. Reliable sources indicate that that there was probably enough air to last the last Sailor left alive until approximately Christmas Eve of that year.

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    The ARIZONA, an oil burning ship, burned for two solid days and the sunken ARIZONA is still discharging oil today, "tears" as we say in the Navy. The story goes that the tears will stop when the last survivor of the ARIZONA is laid to rest.

    and, as a VA recognized Veterans Service Organization, a $10,000 grantor to the VA's Punchbowl Cemetery:

    as the National Association is proud, also, to have provided over 5,000 of its care kits to Hawai'i service men and women serving in the CENTCOM theatres of operation in the Global War on Terror since 2002.

    In these simple acts of charity and patriotism, just over the period June 1, 2008 - May 30, 2009, this organization spent in Hawai'i and for the people of Hawai'i over 3 1/2 times the net contributions it raised in Hawai'i, and those figures do not even include either the educational expenses of the organization as to the struggles of our Armed Forces members from Hawai'i, or from the rest of the United States (since those struggles are the same) in the War on Terror, or the volunteer services of our Hawai'i Chapter members, all without any charge whatsoever, in counselling our people here in Hawai'i as to their veterans' rights and benefits, in their participation in patriotic events here, and in comforting the widows, widowers, children and orphans of deceased Hawai'i veterans in the time of their bereavement.

    To give the people of Hawai'i a fuller and fairer account, as opposed to the scurrilous and false insinuations and statements made in both the Star Bulletin story and in Mr. Jones' civil complaint (See, below), of our fiscal situation and where money raised in Hawai'i goes: the combined organizations (the State Chapter and the National Association) raised approximately $122,000 total gross income during the twelve month period June 1, 2008 - May 31, 2009 statewide.(All told, for non-profits in Hawai'i, for the last year available, 2001, local residents donated about $430 million to charitiies. (Source; Honolulu Advertiser.com, September 16, 2007.) Thus, even using the 8 year old outdated figures as to gross contributions made from Hawai'i, and including our membership dues as "contributions," which they are not, this organization raises in Hawai'i less than .03 of 1% of the total of gross charitable contributions from Hawai'i, yet we were singled out by Mr. Jones for a vicious, false and scurrilous attack). Of USNVA's totals, only approximately $25,000 (representing about 1,400 public donors) was raised by professional fundraisers (PFRs). Of the remainder, approximately $72,000 was raised in membership dues, and we do not hear any member; only non-members, non-veterans, politicians or pseudo-politicians with chips on their shoulders, and outsiders, most, if not all, who made not a penny in contributions to the cause of this oreganization, or to any veterans' organization, complaining about where their money went, because they know all of that $72,000 in membership contributions, was spent on staff administration within Hawai'i (about $1,000) and the remainder (about $71,000) on program services of the organization benefitting the Hawai'i beneficiary classes listed in the Mission Statement.  Similarly, a little less than $25,000 (Chapter money) was raised in contributions from members and their families in the all-volunteer drive done by staff-only Chapter members and, of that, a little less than $900 went into administration with the remainder (approximately $24,100) being spent on program services of the organization benefitting the Hawai'i beneficiary classes listed in the Mission Statement.  Of the remaining $25,000 raised by PFRs, approximately $5,625 was paid to the PFRs for the program service component of public education for the drive, and approximately $16,875 was paid to the PFRs for fundraising. Thus, for the combined organizations last year, we spent in Hawai'i, on true Mission Statement activities or benefitting the Hawai'i beneficiary classes listed in the Mission Statement, approximately $103,225 (a whopping 84.6% of total gross receipts from Hawai'i, NOT the 8%, more or less, that both the subject civil complaint and the Star Bulletin  made it sound like), and approximately $18,775 on administration, including fundraising costs. The statement further made in the Star Bulletin article that the organization has no physical presence in Hawai'i, is, flat out, no other word for it, per se misrepresentational, just based on any single fact you wish to pick out, alone, mentioned above, and throughout, this public service message.

    Not a single person within the United States Navy Veterans Association or its Hawai'i Chapter has ever made even a penny in compensation, or any inurement, from the activities of the National Association or the Chapter.

    The great people of Hawai'i , kama'aina, malahini, haole'ili kea, haole pa'ele, haole lakina and haole'akia, many of whose grandparents and parents paid the ultimate price for love of their entire country on December 7,1941, should pay more attention to the news we report on www.NavyVets.org, than is reported as what passes for news by certain reporters of the Star Bulletin. But if the Star Bulletin (claimed circulation, c. 64,000, [Source: Wikipedia] out of a total population in the State going on 1.5 million) doubts the accuracy of what we're saying anywhere on this website, including in our Chapter section on this page, then they are welcome to bring it on.

    We'll repeat this here, as a belief of the 288 war veteran members of the Chapter,  all of whom live in Hawai'i and have physically worked on the administrative and program service activities of the Association here since at least 2003,  emphatically, although it's been said many times before in this country and this State since 1959: what is good with a person or entity needs to be reported equally by the media with what is bad in each and every case, and just because negative stories "sell' and put more dollars in the pockets of the moguls who control most of the American media, including, in the case of the Star Bulletin, foreigners who pull the profit from their newspaper out of Hawai'i, does not mean, in the interest of American fairness, that that is the only thing which should be reported, or reported on. And that is not the da kine way, or the way we do things here.

    Nobody within the United States Navy Veterans Association, at either the National Association level, or at the Hawai'i Chapter level here, was given the slightest advance notice for comment, by anybody at the Star Bulletin, that a particular reporter there was about to e-publish a bunch of falsehoods about the organization and its activities here and throughout the United States. That is also, in the opinion of our membership in Hawai'i, not the da kine way. It also constitutes the height of arrogance and unprofessionalism for any newspaper, in their pursuit of profit and money, in these United States.

    The misrepresentations we speak of here consisted of two factors in one Star Bulletin story relating to the FTC's sweep "Operation False Charity." In one civil case filed by the Hawaii Attorney General's Office against one charitable professional fundraising company, the Attorney General agreed with the company, prior to the date of the Star Bulletin story, that the case would be settled by judgment and order, in a stipulated settlement, simply, by the company denying any fault or liability for any wrongdoing, agreeing simply to abide by Hawaii law in the future (which everybody has to do anyway), and by paying the Attorney General a paltry $7,000.  Although widely known in advance, none of these facts were brought to the attention of the Hawai'i readership by the Star Bulletin reporter, and the fundraising company was not even asked for a comment. But the Star Bulletin reporter went even further. She took the allegations in the Attorney General's  civil complaint against the company and printed them as fact, when in fact they were largely not, and then came up with a list of innocent charitable organizations the company represented in Hawai'i and, unlike the Advertiser*, she printed that list in her article strongly implying, or outright saying, that those innocent charities were conspiring with the telefundraising company in the non-existent wrongdoing. Again, none of the not-for-profits were even given the usual practice of being asked for a comment prior to publication. The Attorney General of Hawaii has backed up her falsehoods, and false insinuations, as of July, 2009,  by going even further on his propaganda website, and lists all 32 or so innocent clients of this particular fundraiser nationwide, even though many of them never fundraised in Hawaii at all and, as for the ones that did, none of them were even accused of any wrongdoing. This is the filing of lawsuits, the McCarthyesque throwing out of names derogatorily without evidence, and muckraking journalism, all for the sake of politics (to get at charitable organizations with a public educational mission, such as ours, because of the dislike for the content of their speech, by going through their PFRs so as to shut them down in order to prevent the disliked non-profits from speaking, or speaking so much), while at the same time time demanding and orchestrating, arrogant-style, that the accuseds not be given an equal opportunity to respond. In another administrative action filed, at the same time by the same Attorney General, for example, with wide Attorney General-propaganda-website publicity distribution,  the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii is named as endorsing a charity which then allegedly had one of its staff members "acting as an agent for a professional fundraiser" imply sort of, maybe "to at least one person" that the State of Hawaii had endorsed the charity.  There was no need to mention the Lieutenant Governor's name in that case; he did nothing wrong and was not accused; and there was no need to mention the names of any of the innocent 32 charities, either, in the former case. But both cases, at a minimum, show a pattern of the political manipulation of justice with regard to "name-dropping"  in lawsuits by the current Attorney General which stand the ABA's model Standards of Ethical Behavioral for Prosecutors and Attorneys on their head. (ABA model Standards 3-1.1(c), 3-1.3(f), 3-2.8(a), 3-3.9(g), 8-1.1(a) and (c); although these Standards apply to criminal proceedings, all of the allegations brought by the Hawaii Attorney General above involved allegations of criminal misconduct). Cases abound on this subject on the internet on Hawai'i, including references to our judicial system being run by a bunch of hacks going after whoever they determine to be the political enemy of the day, e.g. judges being thrown out of office, (the Lee case), for frivolous accusations.  These people, all of them, are making Hawai'i the new laughingstock of the Union.

    In 1892 - 1893, the Star Bulletin told only one side of the story, the side of the so-called "Provisional Government." It never told Queen Lili'uokalani' s side of the story, who refused to accede to the Provisional Government,

     or the story of the Hawai'ian people. Old notions of, as it was called back then, yellow journalism or, as it should properly be called today, jello journalism, apparently run deep at the Star Bulletin.

    The Star Bulletin, which has run many stories in its long history based on fact, is currently owned by a Canadian, David Black, of whom people in Hawaii know little, although we do know that Canadian journalistic enterprise is notorious for accepting at whole cloth everything it's socialistic, and oftentimes anti-American, government, says at face value.

     

    "The reporter [for the Honolulu Star Bulletin] wants to give the impression that a question of opinion and conflicting claims is ... fact." 

    - Hawaii Reporter

    8/25/2005

    www.hawaiireporter.com

    (Numerous similar comments about the Star Bulletin's recent reporting abound online. And, while we are on this subject of fairness to all sides of a particular story, the Chapter points out that this website, this Association, this Chapter, in their extensive public educational programs on Navy affairs, Veterans' affairs, and national security affairs carried out both inside and outside Hawai'i since 1998 , normally e-links to the sources for the other party's side of the story. Since we were denied that right in this instant case, it is only fair, in this instance, that what is good for the goose is also good for the gander; in other words, you are free to look up their actual and implied misrepresentations of fact yourself. And, as the Hawai'i Chapter said at the outset of this open educational message, if you want to see through these people  for what they really are, without their verbal artifices, you do not have to look any further.)

    *The HonoluluAdvertiser.com advocated, in a so-called "news" article, on September 16, 2007 that the Legislature reimpose certain registration and reporting requirements on all non-profits operating in Hawai'i, singling out in the article "faith-based" organizations, especially, which needed such requirements. The Legislature had repealed such requirements in the mid-1990's. The Legislature, in 2008, re-imposed those requirements effective January 1, 2009. All the actions and newspaper reporting cited above in this article could have, and would have, taken place without those requirements. Given the myriad, duplicative, overlapping and Byzantine written forms and regulations non-profits in the U.S. have to abide by already, at the local, state, federal and private charity watchdog levels, only a regulatory freak would impose, or advocate to be imposed, additional new requirements designed primarily to bring in revenue for government (the National Association had to pay the state a routine administrative registration fee (not a fine) of $500 in 2009, or approximately 1/2 of 1% of what was raised totally from Hawai'i contributors over the past twelve months, paid directly to these same hypocrites who pontificate and pound their chests about non-profits which spend too much on administrative fees). Hawai'i's new law on non-profit registration and reporting should, accordingly, and with due respect to our friends at the Advertiser, be repealed again.

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    Contribution Processing Centers:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Idaho Chapter

    1770 W. State St #360

    Boise ID 83702

     

    4600 Wisconsin Ave NW #262

    Washington DC 20016

     

    Chapter Commander: David Cornett

    Click here for the very thorough 2007-2008 list of contacts for veterans' assistance in Idaho, provided by the Idaho Division of Veterans Services.

     

    Congress has passed and President Bush has signed Public Law 109-111, which provides a 4.1 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) effective December 1, 2005, for disability compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, clothing allowance, pension, and certain other related benefits.

    "This is the largest increase since 1991," said Senator Larry Craig, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. "For those veterans who are 100 percent disabled, their compensation will increase by approximately $1,100 for 2006, up from $27,588 to $28,716. I am hopeful that the increase will help with higher fuel and other costs which have gone up."

    The COLA will be reflected in checks issued on or about January 1, 2006. Full VA benefits rate tables may be found at www.vba.va.gov/bln/21/Rates/. In addition, the following tables are provided for your use.

     

    Compensation -Basic Rates

    Dep

    Code

    Dep

    Status

    10%

    20%

    30%

    40%

    50%

    60%

    70%

    80%

    90%

    100%

    00

    Veteran

    $112

    $218

    $337

    $485

    $690

    $873

    $1,099

    $1,277

    $1,436

    $2,393

    10

    V-S

     

     

    377

    539

    757

    954

    1,193

    1,385

    1,557

    2,528

    11

    V-S-1C

     

     

    406

    578

    806

    1,012

    1,262

    1,463

    1,645

    2,626

    12

    V-S-2C

     

     

    426

    605

    840

    1,052

    1,309

    1,517

    1,706

    2,694

    13

    V-S-3C

     

     

    446

    632

    874

    1,092

    1,356

    1,571

    1,767

    2,762

    14

    V-S-4C

     

     

    466

    659

    908

    1,132

    1,403

    1,625

    1,828

    2,830

    Each additional child

    20

    27

    34

    40

    47

    54

    61

    68

    Each additional schoolchild *

    64

    86

    107

    129

    150

    172

    193

    215

    Additional for A/A spouse **

    37

    48

    61

    73

    85

    97

    110

    122

    *To find the amount payable to a 70% disabled veteran with a spouse and 4 children, one of whom is over 18 and attending school, take the 70% rate for a veteran with a spouse and 3 children, $1,356, and add the rate for one school child, $150. The total amount payable is $1,506.

    ** Where the veteran has a spouse who is determined to require A/A , add the figure shown as "additional for A/A spouse" to the amount shown for the proper dependency code. For example, veteran has A/A spouse and 2 minor children and is 70% disabled. Add $85, additional for A/A spouse, to the rate for a 70% veteran with dependency code 12, $1,309. The total amount payable is $1,506.

    Improved Disability Pension Rates

    Maximum Annual Pension Rate (MAPR) Category                               Amount

    Without spouse or child.................................................................................................... $10,579

    With one dependent........................................................................................................... $13,855

    Housebound without dependents .................................................................................. $12,929

    A/A without dependents................................................................................................... $17,651

    A/A with one dependent..............................................

    ............................................... $20,924

    Two vets married to each other...................................................................................... $13,855

    For each additional child add to any category above.................................................... $1,806

     

     

    Dependency and Indemnity Compensation - Surviving Spouse

    Veteran's death was on or after January 1, 1993

     

    The basic monthly rate is $1,033. Add $221 if at the time of the veteran's death, the veteran was in receipt of or entitled to receive compensation for a service-connected disability rated totally disabling (including a rating based on individual unemployability) for a continuous period of at least 8 years immediately preceding death AND the surviving spouse was married to the veteran for those same 8 years. Add $257 if the surviving spouse is entitled to A/A. Add $122 if the surviving spouse is entitled to Housebound.

     

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    ILLINOIS CHAPTER  illinoicz.gif

     Chapter Commander: Robert Weiss 

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    IOWA CHAPTER  iowag.gif

    Mailing Address:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Iowa Chapter

    4225 Fleur Dr #101

    Des Moines IA 50321

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    4200 Wisconsin Ave NW #106

    Washington DC 20016

    Chapter Commander: Dennis Sweeney

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    KANSAS CHAPTER  kansasczbx.gif

     Chapter Commander: Marion Walch

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    334 E. Kearney #303

    Springfield MO 65803 

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    KENTUCKY CHAPTER  kentckye.gif

     Chapter Commander: Adam Miller

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    334 E. Kearney

    Springfield, MO 65803

    According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, there are just over six million Navy veterans in the United States. In Kentucky, most Navy veterans have retired in Louisville and Jefferson County, some because of their connection and service with the old Naval Ordnance Station Louisville (NOSL).


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  • LOUISIANA CHAPTER  louisiae1.gif

     Chapter Commander: Robbie Long

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    721 Government St. #103-502

    Baton Rouge LA 70802

     

    334 E Kearney #303

    Springfield MO 65803

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    MARYLAND CHAPTER  marylndc.gif

    With Squadrons in Baltimore and Annapolis

    Mailing Address:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Assn, Maryland Chapter

    1783 Forest Dr #300

    Annapolis MD 21401

    Baltimore Tel. (443) 451-0810

    Annapolis Fax (410) 216-9812

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    1290 Bay Dale Dr

    Arnold MD 21012

     

    Chapter Commander: Joseph Izaaks

     

    The Maryland Chapter is recognized by the Maryland Department of Veterans Affairs on its Veteran Service Organizations Commanders' List.

     

  • The Maryland Chapter numbers 34 US Naval Academy Midshipmen as voting members of the Chapter. Pictured below are some of them on the MNT Stadium Field in 2006 at the Association's Navy/Notre Dame Bash:

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  • MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER  massache.gif

     Chapter Commander: Brad Zielinski

    Boston Tel. (617) 658-7095

    Boston Fax (617) 499-7710

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    10 Schalks Crossing Rd.

    Plainsboro NJ 08536-1612

     

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    MICHIGAN CHAPTER  michgane.gif

      Chapter Commander: Gina Stephens

    Contribution Processing Center:

    10 Schalks Crossing Rd.

    Plainsboro NJ 08536

    (This is a regional DPC used for a number of states.)

     

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    MINNESOTA CHAPTER  minnesoe.gif

     Chapter Commander: John Clinton

    St. Paul Tel. (651) 649-4570

  •      Mailing address:

         US Navy Veterans Association

         Minnesota Chapter

          1043 Grand Ave. #555

          St. Paul MN  55105

    • In a year in which both our VA facilities and US Armed Forces medical facilities came under fire, 2007, the Minnesota Chapter, a grant-making authority, made a $10,000 unrestricted grant to the St. Paul VA Vets Center, a grant which was matched by the National Association. The position of the entire Association is that our US Armed Forces medical care provided, as well as our VA medical care provided, is ten to twenty times qualitatively better than either was during the Vietnam era. While even one untreated veteran is one too many, and while there is no excuse for shoddy treatment of any veteran, especially for those not able to take care of themselves, the declension of veterans' benefits claims is a practice which has been going on since at least the Civil War and is not unique to the George W. Bush Administration. Those declensions, while sometimes clearly in error, are a function of the perpetual fact that government does not have access to unlimited resources under any circumstances, and that simply passing open ended entitlements for every person, civilian or veteran, who simply wants something, does not equate with governmental fiscal responsibility or the interests of national security.

     

    Contribution Processing Center:

    23 West Central Entrance #338

    Duluth  MN  55811-3433

     

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  • MISSOURI CHAPTER  missourf.gif

     

    Chapter Commander: Nate Rudison

    St. Louis Tel. (314) 995-2680

    Contribution Processing Centers:

  • The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    901 Missouri Bl. #365

    Jefferson City MO 65109

     

    334 E Kearney #303

    Springfield MO 65803

     

    The Missouri Chapter is an official sponsor of the efforts being made, as of November 2006, to bring the U.S.S. Narwhal (SSN 671)

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     to St. Louis on the Mississippi as a ship museum. If you would like to volunteer as a fundraiser contacting local businesses and individuals in support of the United States Navy's 100th nuclear powered submarine and its permanent berth in St. Louis, please call  Jeff Powell at 314.918.0989 or 314.303.6736.

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    MONTANA CHAPTER  montanaf.gif

  • Mailing Address:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Montana Chapter

    2047 N. Last Chance Gulch  Ste 315

    Helena MT 59601

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    4200 Wisconsin Ave NW #106

    Washington DC 20016

     

    Chapter Commander: Donald Michael

     

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    NEBRASKA CHAPTER  nebraskaf.gif

    Mailing Address:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Nebraska Chapter

    5100 N. 27th St Ste A2-325

    Lincoln NE 68521

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:


    4200 Wisconsin Ave NW #106

    Washington DC 20016

     

    Chapter Commander: Randall Faulk

     

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    NEVADA CHAPTER  nevadaf.gif

    Mailing Address:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Nevada Chapter

    1894 Hwy 50 E Ste 4-469

    Carson City NV 89701

     

    Las Vegas Tel. (702) 380-7845

    Las Vegas Fax (702) 216-2970

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    4600 Wisconsin Ave NW #262

    Washington DC 20016

     

    Chapter Commander: Joseph Watson

     

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    NEW HAMPSHIRE CHAPTER  newhampf.gif

     

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    26 S. Main St #519

    Concord NH 03301

     

     

    Chapter Commander: Maria Musa

     

     

    The great Granite State of New Hampshire handles state rights and benefits for veterans through the New Hampshire State Veterans' Council and the well qualified and organized representatives of the New Hampshire Employment Security Veterans Service Office of the New Hampshire Employment Security Agency (NHES).

    NHES is a proud member of America's Workforce Network and NH WORKS.
    NHES is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request of individuals with disabilities. TDD ACCESS: RELAY NH 1-800-735-2964.

    The United States Navy Veterans Association is recognized by the New Hampshire Employment Security Veterans  Service Office as a veterans service organization qualified to provide assistance and counsel to New Hampshire veterans on veterans' issues.

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    NEW JERSEY CHAPTER  nwjersyeb.gif

    Mailing Address:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association, New Jersey Chapter

    6-05 Saddle River Rd #400

    Fairlawn NJ 07410

     

    Chapter Commander: Mike Valenzuela

     

    Newark Tel: (201) 716-1560

    Jersey City Fax: (201) 716-3025 

                      

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    10 Schalks Crossing Rd #285

    Plainsboro NJ 08536-1612

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    1056 Hwy 9 South #325

    Parlin NJ 08859

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    3501 Rte 42 7A #130

    Turnersville NJ 08012

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    957 Rte 33 #250

    Trenton NJ 08690

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    313 Broad Ave. #203

    Ridgefield NJ 07657

    _____________________

    88 Elm Rd. #2

    Newark NJ 07105

    _____________________

    113 Gaither Dr. #202

    Mt. Laurel NJ 08054

     

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    New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs

     

    New Jersey Chapter Special Educational Project 2004-2005: New Jersey's Contribution to World War II

     

    Volunteers Sought for the Battleship New Jersey :

     

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    The Battleship New Jersey Memorial and Museum on the waterfront in Camden, New Jersey, is now open for tours and public events. But there is still plenty of work to be done to get additional areas of the Battleship open to the public and to maintain sections of the ship that are already open. If you would like to volunteer some of your time scraping and painting and doing other chores, your help is vitally needed. In addition to maintenance work, volunteers are needed to lead tours of the ship, to educate the public, to chaperone student encampment, and to host social events. Anyone eighteen years of age or older who is interested in volunteering onboard the Battleship New Jersey should contact Dan Farrell at (856) 966-1652 x224 or toll free at 1-866-877-6262 x224 . 

     

      

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    NEW MEXICO CHAPTER  newmexeb.gif

     Chapter Commander: Howard Bonifacio

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    120 South Church St #131

    Visalia CA 93291

    (This is a regional DPC used for a number of states.)

     

     

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    NEW YORK CHAPTER  newyorkeb.gif

    Street Address:

    US Navy Veterans Association, New York Chapter

    187 Wolf Rd Ste 101

    Albany NY 12205 

    Albany Tel. (518) 964-6235

     

    Chapter Commander: John Markman

     

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    NORTH CAROLINA CHAPTER   norcarleb.gif

     Chapter Commander: Mark Cosgrove

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    1641 N. Memorial Drive  # 175

    Lancaster  OH 43130-1632

     

    P.O. Box 28026

    Raleigh NC  27611

     

    The North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs is reminding high school seniors of the ongoing state scholarship program for children of certain disabled, deceased or POW/MIA veterans.  The scholarships are awarded for four academic years and must be used at state-operated schools in North Carolina.  For more information, visit the North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs website, contact local County Veterans Service Office in North Carolina or write to the Assitant Secretary for Veterans Affairs, North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs, 1315 Mail Service Center, Albemarle Building, Suite 1065, Raleigh, NC  27699-1315. 

     

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    OHIO CHAPTER                    ohioc.gif

     

    With Squadrons in Cincinnati, Toledo and Cleveland  

                          

     

    Mailing Address:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association, Ohio Chapter

    407 Vine St. #267

    Cincinnati OH 45202

    Cincinnati Telephone:  (513) 557-7375

    Cincinnati Fax: (513) 929-0093

  •  

    Chapter Commander: Dick Platt

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    1641 North Memorial Dr #175

    Lancaster OH 43130

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    6956 E. Broad St. #109

    Columbus OH 43213

     

     

     

    Governor's Office of Veteran's Affairs

    City of Columbus Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Mayor

    Chillicothe VA Medical Center

    Ohio Veterans Home

    Telephone numbers for the State of Ohio

    Licking County Veteran's Service Commission

     How to obtain a military/veteran Ohio license plate

     

     HOMELESS VETERAN FACT SHEET

     

    From the

    City of Columbus Department of Veterans Affairs

    Office of the Mayor

    mayorcoleman.jpg

    Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman

     

    (614) 645-7671

    Fax (614) 645-5818

     

     

    Ø    23% of the homeless population are veterans

     

    Ø    33% of the male homeless population are veterans

     

     

    Ø    Most homeless veterans are male (2% are female)

     

    v  Homeless Veteran Specific Highlights:

     

    Ø    Demographic Characteristics:

     

    46% Caucasian, 45% African American, 5%

    Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 1 % other

    46% White non-Hispanic males, compared to

    34% non-veterans

     

    46% age 45 and older, compared to 20%

    non-veterans

     

    85% completed high school/GED or higher,

    compared to 56% of non-veterans

     

    79% reside in central cities, 16% in suburban

    areas, 5% in rural areas

     

    v   Military Service:

     

    8% served August 1990 or later

    17% served from September 1980 -July

    1990

    32% served post-Vietnam, May 1975- August

    1980

    47% served during the Vietnam Era, August

    1964-May 1975

    15% served Pre-Vietnam, February 1955-

    July 1964

    I

    4% served during the Korean conflict,

    June1950 -January 1955

    1 % served during World War I I, September

    1940 -July 1947

    67% served three or more years

    33% stationed in war zone, 28% of whom

    report being exposed to combat

    11 % did not receive honorable discharges

     

    v   Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse

    Problems:

     

    25% report having one or more acute

    infectious conditions

    52% report having one or more chronic

    health conditions, compared to 44% nonveterans

    76% experienced alcohol, drug, or mental

    health problems in the past month

    93% experienced alcohol, drug, or mental

    health problems at some point during their life

    18% experienced both alcohol and mental

    health problems in the past year, compared to

    9% non-veterans

    Social Service Needs and Use:

    45% report needing help finding a job

    37% report needing help housing

    25% have participated in programs specifically

    for homeless veterans

    57% have used a Department of Veterans

    Affairs medical facility sometime during their

    life

    49% report carrying no current medical insurance

    18% report needing but not being able to see

    a doctor or nurse in past years

     

    v   Other Miscellaneous Facts:

     

    10% of the homeless veterans are homeless

    with families

     

    According to the Federal Government, on any

    given night between 150,000 and 250,000

    veterans are homeless and annually as many as

    500,000 veterans experience homelessness in

    America. The National Coalition for the

    Homeless believes the number is higher.

    More Vietnam Era veterans are homeless

    today that were killed during the Vietnam

    War.

    Funding for programs specifically targeted to

    the homeless at the  U.S. Department of Veterans

    Affairs constitutes less than one percent

    of the V A's total budget

    The federal job training program for homeless

    veterans through the Department of labor

    costs 1.9 million per year for the entire

    country and currently serves only 5,800 of

    the approximately 150,000 to 250,000

    homeless veterans

    In Ohio, as many as 30,000 veterans

    experienced homelessness over the past year.

    A study by the Ohio State University on rural

    homelessness showed about 27.5% of

    homeless adult men in rural Ohio counties are

    veterans.

    Homelessness in the rural areas has increased

    by 300% during the past 5 years.

     

      

     

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    OKLAHOMA CHAPTER         oklahomc.gif

     Chapter Commander: Ronald Austin

     

  • Contribution Processing Center:

    334 E. Kearney Ste. 303

    Springfield MO 65803-3018

     

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  • OREGON CHAPTER               oregoncd.gif

     Chapter Commander: Jessica Adams

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    PO Box 588

    Annapolis, MD 21404

    The United States Navy Veterans Association is recognized by the Oregon Department of Veterans' Affairs as a qualified veterans' service organization.

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    PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION            pennsylc.gif

    With Division Squadrons in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh

     

     

     Division Commander: Zack Hughes

     

    The Pennsylvania Division is not separately recognized by the IRS.

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    PUERTO RICO DIVISION*            prflag.gif

    Commander: Alberto Garcia, USN (ret.)

     

    * There is no IRS separately recognized Puerto Rico Chapter. The Puerto Rico Division is a provisional state chapter of the United States Navy Veterans Association, progressing forward to official State Chapter recognition.

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    RHODE ISLAND CHAPTER         rislandcd7x.gif

  • Providence Tel. (401) 427-2200

  •  Commander: Jack Alberts

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    PO Box 9044

    Providence, RI 02940

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  • SOUTH CAROLINA CHAPTER         sorcarle.gif

    Mailing Address:

    7001 St. Andrews Rd. 3320

    Columbia SC 29212

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    23 Alafaya Woods Blvd

    Oviedo, FL 32765

  •  Chapter Commander: Don Jones

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    SOUTH DAKOTA CHAPTER      sdakotacd.gif

    Mailing Address:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association, South Dakota Chapter

    2601 S. Minnesota Ave Ste 105-384

    Sioux Falls SD 57105

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    PO Box 1258

    Pierre, SD 57501

  • Chapter Commander: Hugh Phillips

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    TEXAS DIVISION* 

     

    With Divisional Squadrons in Austin and Dallas 

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     Commander: Roger White

     

     

    * There is no IRS separately recognized Texas Chapter. The Texas Division is a provisional state chapter of the United States Navy Veterans Association, progressing forward to official State Chapter recognition. For further information on Texas state law impediments to that progress, see the WOT Newstand article, 4/29/2002.  The provisional leadership of the Texas Division has determined that they will not apply for official State Chapter designation until those impediments, all of them, are removed irrevocably. They also believe an apology to all veterans' groups in the State of Texas by the Texas State Legislature, for placing those discriminatory statutes on the books in the first place, would be in order.

  • For those veterans seeking a VA guaranteed home mortgage, initial or re-financing, the Division recommends applicants contact Kevin M. Frederick of the Jeff Neal Group at 214.261.5000.

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    VIRGINIA CHAPTER             virginc.gif

     

     Commander : Allan Rossellini

     Tel. (703) 621-5210

     

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

     

    2711 Buford Rd #408

    Bon Air VA 23235

     

     

    10332 Main St. #341

    Fairfax VA 22030

     

    PO Box 26669

    Richmond VA 23261

     

  • Virginia Department of Veterans Affairs

    The Virginia Chapter has funded the Commonwealth of Virginia New Well Fund with a $2,500 grant in 2009. The Fund is a Commonwealth of Virginia agency making low cost loans, with less hurdles for applicants than for-profit lenders, to Virginians with disabilities. It has focused recently on Virginian veterans with disabilities returning from the Global War on Terror. We run the this linked e-Brochure for this Virginia government agency as a public service announcement.

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  • WASHINGTON STATE CHAPTER  washg.gif

     Commander: H. L. Frazier

     

     

    Mailing Address:

    7683 SE 27th St #435

    Mercer Island WA 98040

     

  • Seattle Tel. (206) 781-3595

  • Seattle Fax (206) 232-2904

     

  • Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

    4004 NE 4th St #107-501

    Renton WA 98056

     

    P.O. Box 1816

    Olympia WA 98507-1816

     

    The Washington State Chapter is recognized by the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs on its Veteran Service Organizations Commanders' List.

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    WEST VIRGINIA CHAPTER           3dflagsdotcom_us_wv_2fawm.gif

    Commander: Elmer Layton

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    • PO Box 3545

          Charleston WV 25335-3545

     

    • 4200 Wisconsin Ave NW #262

            Washington DC 20016-2143

     

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  • USS West Virginia (BB-48), a Colorado class battleship, took nine torpedo hits from naval aviators of the Japanese Imperial Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. She was sunk, but not destroyed. 70 US Navy sailors were trapped in the underwater hull. The last one died on December 23, 1941.

     West Virginia was refloated and refurbished. She returned to combat action on October 19,1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, where her guns poured a total of 1,864 shells non-stop into Japanese troops and artillery near Tacloban in the Philippine Islands, silencing their noise for good.

     

    REAL West Virginians believe that back then FDR knew how to fight a war, and how to prepare for the dangerous work ahead in the aftermath of the conventional hostilities.

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    WISCONSIN CHAPTER  wiscnsncf7.gif

     Chapter Commander: Becky Miller

     

    Milwaukee Tel. (414) 256-1380

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

     

    1360 Regent St. #141

    Madison WI 53715

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    1641 N. Memorial Dr. #175

    Lancaster OH 43130

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    WYOMING CHAPTER   wyomingg.gif

     Chapter Commander: Derek Finley

     

     

    Contribution Processing Centers:

    The Chapter posts these here so that you can verify it was an official Association campaign which contacted you.

    For Donations Only:

     

    1740 Dell Range Bl. #H-519

    Cheyenne WY 82009

    _____________________________

    4200 Wisconsin Ave NW #106

    Washington DC 20016

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    NON - U.S. LOCATED DIVISIONS:

     

     

    PANAMA DIVISION   panama.gif 
     

    (Formerly the Canal Zone Division)

    Commander: Martin Alvarez-Montoya, USN (ret)

    Email: USNPanama@NavyVets.org

     

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    PHILIPPINES DIVISION    phillipinesflag.gif

    Commander: Ramon Ventura, USN (ret.)

    Email: USNPhilippines@NavyVets.org

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    LINKED TO OUR FORMER SISTER 

  • ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION CHAPTER:

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    No Chapter or Division located outside the United States is, nor can it be, by law, recognized by the I.R.S. as a separate IRC 501(c)(19) tax exempt or tax deductible organization.

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    Note that the above listed Contribution Processing Center addresses are for donations to those specific State Chapters ONLY. No solicitation to contribute is made on, or as a function of, this website.

    All State Chapters of the United States Navy Veterans Association are officially supervised, pursuant to Acts of Congress, and U.S. Treasury Regulations, by HQSUSNVA. The official mailing address of each State Chapter for general business is the same:

    U.S. Navy Veterans Association

    State Chapter Name

    1718 M Street NW #275

    Washington DC 20036

     

    And the official Email address for each State Chapter for general business correspondence is the same:

    USN@NavyVets.org

    to the attention of the pertinent State Chapter Commander or other known representative.

    For other Chapter information, contact the National Association OPS HQS @ (202) 736-1725 or email us at ChapterInformation@NavyVets.org.

     

























































































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