The new economic reality places a higher premium than ever on high-school diplomas and undergraduate degrees. For that reason, Veterans are exploring educational opportunities, and not merely traditional community college or four-year institutions. Increasingly, Veterans are looking for education programs which provide hard, immediately useful skills. To assist Veterans, the…
Then-Secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Eric Shinseki, resigned in May 2014 after a shocking season of revelations regarding Veteran deaths at the hands of VA. Last month, on October 16, 2015, VA Under Secretary for Benefits, Allison Hickey (pictured), resigned in the wake of a pay fraud scandal…
Archive photo of the 1973 NPRC Fire The National Archives tells the story. On July 12, 1973, a fire at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) destroyed approximately 16-18 million Official Military Personnel Files (OMPF). To its credit, the National Archives views the 1973 fire as an “unparalleled disaster” and…
Veterans Day 2015 is next week – Wednesday, November 11, 2015. Here in Texas, and around the United States, restaurants, retailers, and grateful citizens offer discounts and other benefits to acknowledge the service and sacrifice of our active-duty and Veteran military men and women. Many websites provide detailed information regarding…
Bob Goss, founder of the Law Office of Robert B. Goss, P.C. Back in September, we posted a blog about VA’s handling of the “Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014,” P.L. 113-146 (“Choice Act”). The “Choice Act” was intended to improve Veterans’ access to medical services – especially…
If you have read the news recently, you know there’s an epidemic going on. Led by over 2,500 dismissals from Fort Hood, since 2009 the U.S. Army has separated for misconduct at least 22,000 soldiers who served in Iraq or Afghanistan and returned with mental-health disorders. As reported by National Public…
Mission focus is why we justly admire our active-duty and Veteran military personnel. Unfortunately for our service members and Veterans, “Playing with pain” can quickly evolve from a mantra to a way of life. This means that injuries and ailments are pushed aside, even if non-prescription painkillers are required. To protect…
Picture this scenario. Today is Monday, October 19, 2015. You open your mail. Surprise! You have a letter from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). You read the letter. It’s dated August 17, 2015. The letter explains that you have 60-days from the date on the letter in which to respond…or else…
Bob Goss, founder of the Law Office of Robert B. Goss, P.C., has built his law practice around the concept of family and friends who have a passion to protect our troops. As part of a series of conversations with our law office family and friends, it is a pleasure to introduce Ms. Dee Doutel, Senior…
Self-storage facilities are so popular they have their own national association. According to the Self Storage Association (SSA), this industry generated $27.2 billion in annual U.S. revenues, in 2014 alone! SSA asserts that the self-storage industry has been the fastest-growing segment of the commercial real-estate industry over the last 40…