Northwest Region

Branch 245

Bellingham, WA

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FRA Newsbytes Please go to FRA.ORG	2015-2016 Branch Officers	Stolen Valor - Unearned Purple Heart
RAO Bulletin 8-1-2020	Branch Annual Picnic	Veterans Links
DFAS Community Property by State	Branch Photos	"Cryptologic Veteran's" Please go to USNCVA.ORG
Guard & Reserve Retirement	DHA ASH (HD) Briefing	Northwest VSO Site
Gulf War Medical Record Distruction	VA Pain Management Program	WA State Dept of Veterans Affairs
VA Headstone Emblems	VA Loan Foreclosure Avoidance	US Ship Designations
Nat. Cemetery Burial Eligibility	VA Agent Orange Claim Submission	VBA Pension Program Fact Sheet
VATDIU Fast ltr 13-131-pdf	US NAVY, OLD, OBSCURE, AND OBSOLUTE JOBS	Fact Sheet AO & SC Presumptions
Home Inventory & Contents Claims Tips	VA Resource Index	LEAD Poisoning
OIG Wait Time Report Summary	GI Bill Funds Still Flow to Trouble for Profit Colleges	Have You Seen 3-15-2016
VA Manila Benefits Facts sheet 2016	OIG Wait Time Report 2016	Joint VSO ltr to COC dtd 1 April 2016
Air Force RAO contact Info	VN Fractured Law	Home Standard Est. Life Expectancy Chart
Veterans in the 116th Congress	Retirement Income Taxation by State 2018	BRANCH MEETING 2019 Schedule Any changes will be sent to members by email.
Medical Murderers	Excise TAX hIkes NEW	Last update 8-1-2020

 

	2019-2020 American Essay Contest
Rules 2019	Essay Contest 2019 Final	Cover Sheet 2019

 

2020 NWR Convention postponed until 24-26 August 2021

 

 

 

MILITARY HISTORY

 

WWII Why Hitler Never Built a Battleship Fleet	VN Battle of the La Drang Valley	VN Operation Crazy Hourse
WW II Building the Trans Burma Railway	VN Gulf of Tonkin Incident	The Good Old Days
Shadows of an Old Military Base	WW II Operation Pluto	In Memorian 2018 Military Figures We Lost
Inside America's Aging Nuclear Missile Subs	WWII Battle of Midway Sub Action	WW II Russians Japanese Island Invasion
America's Undeclared Naval War	WW II Gray Zone Warrior	CW Battle for the 1864 Presidency
Philippine Islamic Extremism	British & Soviet Iran Invasion 1941	Fate of America's Aircraft Carriers
VN Tet Offensive 1st 36 Hours	Space A Passenger Travel Info (Yokota)	WWII Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1942
WWII Ernie Pyles Truth about D-Day	WW II Battle of Britain	WW II Buchenwald Concentration Camp
Navy Dueling	Viet Nam War Slang	Cybersecurity & MilitaryJustice System
WWII Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1942	Major Brooks Grubers Vindication	VN Battle of A-Shau
CW Hydrogen Bomb Accident 1966	WWII Operation Pastorius	WW II USS LAFFEY
WW II Japanese War Brides	WW II Bataan & Corregidor	WWI Battle of Verdun Facts
WW II Wake Island Prisoners	USS Constituttion	WW-II Forgotten Battles
CW Other Cuban Crisis	Don't Get Pregnant	VN - A Beauty for Bravo Company
Profile in Courage - Risner	Teddy Roosavelts Rough Ride	Reinventing Civil Defense
WWII First Battle of Iron Bottom Bay	WW II Operation Vengeance	ISIS Jan 2017 B-2 RAID
WW II Clipper's Hard Way Home	WW II Battle of the Coral Sea	WW II Battle of Britain
WW II Japanese Aircraft Carrier SHINANO	WW II Sinking of Junyo Maru	WW I Battles Champagne (2nd) & Artois (3rd)
Army 1889 Payroll Robbery	WW II Sullivan Brothers	Xmas Word Surprising Histories

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Military Anniversaries

Anniversaries 1 thru 15 Jan 2020	Anniversaries 16 thru 31 January 2020	Anniversaries 1 thru 15 February 2020
Anniversaries 16 thru 28 Feb 2020	Anniversaries 1 thru 15 March 2020	Anniversaries 16 thru 31 March 2020
Anniversaries 1 thru 15 April 2020	Anniversaries 16 thru 30 April 2020	Anniversaries 1 thru 15 May 2020
Anniversaries 16 thru 31 May 2020	Anniversaries 1 thru 15 June 2020	Anniversaries 16 thru 30 June 2020
Anniversaries 1 thru 15 July 2020	Anniversaries 16 thru 31 July 2020	Anniversaries 1 thru 15 August 2020
Anniversaries 16 thru 31 August 2019	Anniversaries 1 thru 15 September 2019	Anniversaries 16 thru 30 September 2019
Anniversaries 1 thru 15 October 2019	Anniversaries 16 thru 31 October 2019	Anniversaries 1 thru 15 November 2019
Anniversaries 16 thru 30 November 2019	Anniversaries 1 thru 15 December 2019	Anniversaries 16 thry 31 December 2019

 

MILITARY TRIVIA

Historical Look at Diesel Boat Service	B-52's Still Dominate US Fleet	15 Toughest Job Interview Questions

 

 

Veteran State Benefits & Discounts

Information contained below may appear different, as some States do not update their information periodically as does the Retired Affairs Office.

 

Alabama 2020	Alaska 2020	Arkansas 2020
Arizona 2020	California 2020	Colorado 2020
Conneticut 2020	Deleware 2020	Florida 2020
Georga 2018	Hawaii 2018	Idaho 2019
llinois 2019	Indiana 2019	Iowa 2019
Kansas 2019	Kentucky 2019	Louisiana 2019
Maine 2019	Maryland 2019	Massachusetts 2019
Michigan 2019	Minnesota 2019	Mississippi 2019
Missouri 2019	Montana 2019	North Carolina 2019
North Dakota 2019	Nebraska 2016	Nevada 2020
New Hampshire 2016	New Jersey 2019	New York 2015
New Mexico 2015	Ohio 2019	Oklahoma 2019
Oregon 2018	Pennsylvania 2019	Rhode Island 2019
South Carolina 2020	South Dakota 2020	Tennessee 2018
Texas 2018	Utah 2018	Vermont 2018
Virginia 2018	Washington 2018	Wisconsin 2017
Wyoming 2014

 

 

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2018 FRA Americanism Essay Contest winners for the Branch

 

 

 

Samuel Clemson placed first at Regional and third at National and received a check for $1,000.00 from National.