According to icasualties.org there have been 6,693 American servicemen/women killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns. That equals almost 31 percent of the students at NIU. After all these years of bloodshed it seems as though there will never be...
In light of the bombings in Boston, I feel it is only appropriate I take the time to write a blog about the men and women who have given their lives in the pursuit of defending our freedom. I also feel the need to remember and honor those innocent victims...
Over the past couple of weeks, whenever we turn on our television to watch the news there has been some sort of story on about North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un. Usually the programs focus on how he is consistently bringing up talks about a nuclear strike...
Once you’ve finally dropped your pack and your call of duty has concluded, many vets find themselves wondering, “How to go from the military to the civilian workforce?” If your experience in the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) was like mine,...
If there is one thing that amuses the heck out of me every time I go home, it’s the constant bickering between my mother, a former Navy officer, and my father, a former Marine. It’s always entertaining hearing the typical “my branch is better than...
Everyone that gets out of his or her respected military service always embarks on a very mystical adventure that no one really seems to know much about. That adventure is the grand quest for knowledge about the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) claim...
