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 The Oregon Department of Veterans’ Affairs (ODVA) makes every attempt to provide the most comprehensive set of related sites for military veterans, spouses, and dependents. These links provide convenience and access to information. The State of Oregon, nor ODVA endorses or sponsors products, services, or information provided in links outside of the Oregon.gov domain.
Transition from U.S. Armed Forces
Support Programs
- Pentagon Community Relations - America Supports You links people and programs, and shares stories of support with the people who need to hear them most – the men and women serving overseas.
- Oregon Support Organizations - Support organizations in the State of Oregon.
- United Service Organizations USO - Since before the United States entered World War II, the USO has been the bridge between the American public and the U.S. military.
- Operation Love Boxes - Salem-based organization sending packages to troops. A simple low cost way to let Soldiers serving overseas know that they are not forgotten.
- Veterans of Foreign Wars Foundation - Committed to improving the lives of veterans and service personnel, their families, and the communities in which they live and work.
- Operation Homefront - Provides emergency assistance and morale to our troops, to the families they leave behind and to wounded warriors when they return home
- Oregon State Flag Fund - Secretary of State raises funds to send flags to the men and women of Oregon serving in the United States military.
- The Marine Corps Family Foundation - Salem-based organization with mission of commitment, collaboration and communication in an effort to encourage and support our United States Marines.
- Military Homefront - The official Department of Defense web site for reliable Quality of Life information designed to help troops and their families, leaders and service providers.
GI Bill, ROTC, and Service Academies
Healthcare - Dental - Vision
- VA Health Care
- United States Military Health System
- National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) - Advancing the clinical care and social welfare of America's veterans through research, education, and training in the science, diagnosis, and treatment of PTSD and stress-related disorders.
- Vietnam Veterans - Comprehensive program to respond to these medical problems and concerns.
- Gulf War Veterans 1-800-PGW-VETS - Free complete physical examination with basic laboratory studies to every veteran who served in the Gulf War. VA has named a physician at every VA medical center to coordinate the special examination program, which elicits information about symptoms and exposures and directs baseline laboratory studies.
- DeployMed ResearchLINK displays information from federally funded research programs to safeguard the health of service members before, during and after deployment. The DeployMed ResearchLINK is part of the Department of Defense's commitment to the force health protection and readiness of every deployed soldier, sailor, airman and Marine.
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- VA Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program - Award winning, comprehensive, inpatient chronic pain treatment program established in 1988 to help veterans with chronic pain cope with their condition. James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa, Florida. The CPRP is an The
- MOVE! Patient Motivational Video
- MOVE! Weight Management Program
- Nutrition.gov
- Recreation.gov
- Dental care for Homeless Veterans - Central City Concern of Portland, Ore.
- Eyeglasses for Homeless Veterans - Central City Concern of Portland, Ore.
- United States Department of Veterans' Affairs Data & Information - Information services for Veterans' statistical data and information broken down by the U.S. Census, by state and by county.
- TRICARE West - 1-888-874-9378 - Military retiree health information
- TRICARE Mail Order Pharmacy program (TMOP) - 1-866-DOD-TMOP - Easy and convenient way to get the medications you take regularly delivered directly to your home.
- TRICARE Retiree Dental Plan - 1 (888) 838-8737
Home, Savings, Auto, Life
State Agencies
Survivor Benefits & Funeral Arrangements
- Survivor Benefits Home Page - Dedicated to the surviving spouses and dependents of military personnel who died while in active military service and to the survivors of veterans who died after active service.
- Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
- Willamette National Cemetary - 503-273-5250 - Located about 10 miles southeast of Portland Oregon in Clackamas County. A contingent of the Oregon National Guard is currently assigned to the cemetery to perform full military honors on a first assigned, first served basis.
- Oregon's Military Funeral Honors Program - 1-800-452-7500 - Public law 106-65 provides that the Oregon Army National Guard perform Veteran funeral honors for those that have served honorably in the US armed forces. Most services request at least 48 hours in order to organize the funeral honors detail.
- National Cemetery Administration Statewide Locations
- Burial at Sea - 1-888-647-6676 - United States Navy Mortuary Affairs - A means of final disposition of remains that is performed on United States Navy vessels. The committal ceremony is performed while the ship is deployed. Therefore, family members are not allowed to be present.
Identity Theft and Consumer Protection
U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs
U.S. Armed Forces
U.S. Armed Forces Military News and Radio
U.S. Military Medals, Awards and Decorations -- Order of Precedence
U.S. Army Awards and Decorations: http://www.tioh.hqda.pentagon.mil/Awards/Ribbons/OrderofPrecedence.htm
http://sill-www.army.mil/Graphics/RIBBONS/Page.html
U.S. Marine Corps Awards and Decorations: https://kuwait.manpower.usmc.mil/manpower/mm/mmma/awards.nsf
https://lnweb1.manpower.usmc.mil
U.S. Navy and Decorations:
http://buperscd.technology.navy.mil/bup_updt/upd_CD/BUPERS/UNIREG/awards.pdf
U.S. Air Force Awards and Decorations:
http://ask.afpc.randolph.af.mil/awards/default.asp?prods3=152&prods2=2&prods1=1
U.S. Coast Guard and Decorations:
http://www.uscg.mil/HQ/g-w/g-wp/g-wpm/g-wpm-1/g-wpm-3/MandAManual/Award%20Table.pdf
and
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-w/g-wp/g-wpm/g-wpm-1/g-wpm-3/MedalsAndAwards.htm
Service Organizations
Employment
Casualty Assistance and Service Relief Societies
National Security, Law Enforcement and Public Safety
U.S. and Oregon Military History
Charters of Freedom
Memorials
Holidays
- Celebrating America's Freedoms - Official VA page with a collection of stories about some of America’s most beloved customs and national symbols.
- Independence Day - July 4, 1776 - Honors the birthday of the United States of America and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- White House Commission on the National Moment of Remembrance - Independent government agency promoting spirit of unity and remembrance through observance of The National Moment of Remembrance at 3 PM local time on Memorial Day.
- Memorial Day Holiday - May 1868, the head of an organization of Union veterans, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) — established Decoration Day as a time for the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers.
- Veterans Day Holiday - Federal holiday started by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, observed on November the 11th.
- Flag Calendar - Flying the U.S. flag is appropriate every day.
- The Origins of Flag Day -- The Continental Congress established the basic design of the U.S. flag on June 14, 1777, but many years passed before America officially observed National Flag Day.
Military & Veteran Laws / Rights
Uniformed Code of Military Justice
Uniformed Services Employment and Remployment Rights Act
Veterans Employment Opportunities Act
U.S. and Oregon Legislation
Federal Government
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