SEPTEMBER 2024 NEWSLETTER
Greetings! Going for the Gold and getting every DA member to vote in this election! Make your voice heard! No excuses! Register and Request your ballot. As soon as you receive it, fill it out and send it right back! If you haven’t received it yet, fill out a FWAB. Is there a possibility your Official ballot won’t get to you in time to meet the ballot return deadlines? VOTE NOW using the Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot (FWAB). This emergency Backup Ballot is specifically for overseas voters!Join us:
- September 5th for the special Zoom call with U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt Voting From Abroad Information Session Sept. 5, 2024-register at [email protected]
- September 6th-Voter Registration/Ballot Requests/ Information at the KMCC Mall (Ramstein)-send all your military and civilian DoD friends over to register!
Time to fight for our Freedoms! We are not going back! Everyone MUST vote!Robert Scott and Terese Sarno, DAG VMF Caucus Co-Chairs DA Germany
Send us your suggestions: veteranscaucus@democratsabroad.de
Ready to join our caucus? Be part of the conversation and make your voice heard!
U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt Voting From Abroad Information
Session on Zoom – Sept. 5, 2024 12 noon CET
The DA Germany Veterans and Military Families Caucus is pleased to invite you—all members, veterans, military families, all U.S. citizens--to attend the U.S. Consulate General Frankfurt’s Voting from Abroad Information Session on Thursday, September 5, 2024 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. CET. The Zoom Info Session will feature information on how to register and vote in the 2024 Presidential Election. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear directly from the U.S. Consular Officers and to ask questions. The Zoom link will be sent to you after you register at [email protected]
Virtual live Sessions for Veterans Living Overseas
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September 12--Virtual Town Hall for International Veterans 6 pm CEST Register
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September 12 & 13--Virtual Claims Clinic 12 pm to 10 pm CEST -Make an appointment
- Pittsburgh VBA Regional Office
- VA's Medical Disability Examination Office
- Foreign Medical Program
Attendance capacity is limited. Registration is required.
Virtual Veterans Claims Clinic
September 12th & 13th |12:00 pm to 10:00 pm CEST
VA Representatives will be virtually available to answer specific claims questions and assist with your VA claim process. Please schedule your virtual appointment by September 11, 2024
NEWS YOU CAN USE
MY PAY–Ms. Kenya Taylor, the Defense Finance and Account Service Europe Ombudsman, located at Kleber Kaserne (Kaiserslautern), is now a Trusted Agent for MyPay. Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 0730-1600.
Sign Up to receive updates from Veterans Health. Having questions or problems? Please visit Subscriber Help for assistance.
GI Bill: FAQs on your housing and book payments
Hispanic Americans in Military Medicine
Foreign Government Employment is any civil employment with a foreign government agency or instrumentality of the foreign government whether or not compensation is received. The processing timeline for foreign government employment applications can take up to 90 business days. See AR 600-291 for more information on Foreign Government Employment.
Important Changes to Access Your Social Security Account!
Login.gov offers 24/7 customer phone and chat support to answer your questions.Make the transition to Login.gov or ID.me now before the username option goes away.
OSC is giving real teeth to National Whistleblower Day
Getting Telemedicine Care Overseas With TRICARE
Do you live overseas and need health care? You might be able to get telemedicine care from home. Before you get telemedicine outside the United States, know what TRICARE covers and doesn’t cover. TRICARE Guide to Overseas Travel How-To: Filing Claims and Reimbursements
DW German Veterans' Day to recognize service to the country
USAA to Pay $64.2 Million to Service Members in Settlement …
DEMS ABROAD AT THE DNC
WATCH: The full Democratic National Convention celebratory roll call
DA is at the 09:42 mark (After Connecticut and before District of Columbia)
Have you requested your absentee ballot? https://www.votefromabroad.org/
Using the Emergency Back Up Ballot - Vote with Federal Write-in Ballot
QUESTIONS? Email [email protected] or [email protected].
We’re here to help you vote!
Kamala Harris’ DNC Speech – Excerpts
Kamala Harris’ full speech at the Democratic National Convention
“America, we are not going back. We are charting a new way forward.
Forward — to a future with a strong and growing middle class…
Friends, I believe America cannot truly be prosperous unless Americans are fully able to make their own decisions about their own lives. Especially on matters of heart and home. But tonight, too many women iin America are not able to make those decisions. Let’s be clear about how we got here: Donald Trump hand-picked members of the United States Supreme Court to take away reproductive freedom.
And now he brags about it.
His words: Quote – “I did it, and I’m proud to have done it.” End quote.
Over the past two years, I have traveled across our country. And women have told me their stories. Husbands and fathers have shared theirs. Stories of women miscarrying in a parking lot, getting sepsis, losing the ability to ever have children again, all because doctors are afraid of going to jail for caring for their patients.
Couples just trying to grow their family, cut off in the middle of IVF treatments.
Children who have survived sexual assault, potentially forced to carry the pregnancy to term. This is what is happening in our country. Because of Donald Trump. And understand he is not done. As a part of his agenda, he and his allies would limit access to birth control, ban medication abortion and enact a nation-wide abortion ban with or without Congress. And, get this, he plans to create a National anti-abortion coordinator, and force states to report on women’s miscarriages and abortions.Simply put: They are out of their minds.
And one must ask: Why exactly is it that they don’t trust women?
Well. We trust women. And when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedom, as President of the United States, I will proudly sign it into law.
In this election, many other fundamental freedoms are at stake.
The freedom to live safe from gun violence — in our schools, communities and places of worship.The freedom to love who you love openly and with pride.
The freedom to breathe clean air, drink clean water and live free from the pollution that fuels the climate crisis.And the freedom that unlocks all the others: The freedom to vote.With this election, we finally have the opportunity to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act…”
SEPTEMBER is National Suicide Prevention Month
Suicides in Air Force, Navy and Marines in first quarter of 2024 top pandemic-era rates
Labor Day 2024: Good jobs, changing lives
Visit our Labor Day website to learn how we're delivering for workers under the Biden-Harris administration.
September 2 – Labor Day Thank the labor unions, workers and labor leaders for ensuring a 40-hour workweek, sick leave, and vacation time.
September 2 – V-J Day (Victory over Japan)
September 10 – World Suicide Prevention Day 2024
September 11 – Patriot Day
September 12--Virtual Town Hall for International Veterans 6 pm CEST Register
September 12 & 13--Virtual Claims Clinic 12 pm to 10 pm CEST -Make an appointment
September 15 – National POW/MIA Recognition Day
September 17 – Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
September 17-23 – Constitution Week “It is every American’s right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.”— Thomas Jefferson
September 18 – Air Force (USAF) Birthday
September 18 – Air National Guard Birthday
September 24 – Gold Star Mother’s Day and Family Day
September 24-National Voter Registration Day www.VoteFromAbroad.org
September 29 – VFW Day
Upcoming DA Activities
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