- 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.

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:

  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.

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 

 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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HAWAI'I CHAPTER 

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. 

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.

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.)

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IDAHO CHAPTER 

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 

 Chapter Commander: Robert Weiss 

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IOWA CHAPTER 

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

Chapter Commander: Dennis Sweeney

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KANSAS CHAPTER 

 Chapter Commander: Marion Walch

Contribution Processing Centers:

334 E. Kearney #303

Springfield MO 65803 

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KENTUCKY CHAPTER 

 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 

 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 

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 

 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 

  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 

 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 

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)

 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 

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 

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 

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 

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 

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

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88 Elm Rd. #2

Newark NJ 07105

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113 Gaither Dr. #202

Mt. Laurel NJ 08054

New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans' Affairs

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

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NEW MEXICO CHAPTER 

 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 

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  

 Chapter Commander: Mark Cosgrove

Contribution Processing Centers:

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                   

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

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

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

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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         

 Chapter Commander: Ronald Austin

Contribution Processing Center:

334 E. Kearney Ste. 303

Springfield MO 65803-3018

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OREGON CHAPTER               

 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           

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*            

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         

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         

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      

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 

 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            

 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 

 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