The official birthday of the United States Marine Corps is on 10 November 1775. That was the day when the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines Tuns Tavern is the birthplace for the The Few, The Proud, a Marine.

The title is Never Given - it's Always Earned

Happy 248th Birthday Brothers and Sisters 

Semper Fi

THE VVA SELF-HELP GUIDE TO

Service-Connected Disability Compensation For Exposure To Agent Orange

Click for PDF, FOR VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

On Memorial Day, the United States pauses to honor the fallen heroes who died in service to our Nation. With heavy hearts and a sense of profound gratitude, we mourn these women and men, parent, children, comrades-in-arms, friends, and all those known and unknown, who believed so deeply in what our country that they were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice and give their lives to protect us.

With a constant barrage of commercials and ads touting Memorial Day Weekend discounts on cars, cheap furniture and more, it’s easy for many Americans to be distracted from our understanding for the true reason we observe Memorial Day. 

While it’s nice to BBQ, enjoy a 3-day weekend and get excited about the unofficial start of summer, it’s also the time to honor, to remember, and to reflect!

If you do nothing else this weekend, please take time to reflect on the real reason we observe Memorial Day and honor all the brave men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice to make the United States the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Land of the free because of the Brave!

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HAPPY 247th BIRTHDAY MARINE CORP

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As a new small business owner, you have the opportunity to staff your company with skilled individuals who deserve extra care from their communities. Military veterans sacrifice a great deal during service and go through a major adjustment when they come home. With this guide, you can consider giving back by hiring veterans for your business.

Start With Business Best Practices

First, you have to create a strong business if you are going to hire anyone. Start by addressing some business best practices. For example, most small businesses register as limited liability companies. An LLC registration comes with many benefits, including tax advantages, liability protection for your personal assets, minimal paperwork, and flexibility. Every state regulates registration differently. Therefore, when you go online to use a formation service, be sure to check your state laws first.

The best way to establish your company culture is by creating an employee handbook. If you want it to be a PDF, you can make it look professional. Trying to edit a PDF can be frustrating. You typically have limited ability to edit. However, you can use a free PDF to Word converter to change it into a Word document for editing. You upload the PDF, convert it, make edits, and save it as a PDF again. 

Find Jobs They Would Excel In

Given the skills that veterans obtain in their military careers, you can find positions in your business where they can excel. For example, a military supply store similar to CLR Marine could use veteran employees with extensive knowledge about the products you sell. For veterans without higher education degrees, they could transition well into a security position. Veterans with degrees often find good management positions because of their experience in leadership. For example, if you need a project manager, military personnel are detail-oriented and responsible on the job. They have experience placing team members and assessing problems.

Enjoy the Benefits

As a business owner, you also get to enjoy the benefits that veterans can bring to your company. For example, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit is a business deduction provided to employers for hiring veterans. You can also access salary reimbursement, subsidies from training, and free assistance. Research shows that veterans typically have a strong work ethic and an advanced understanding of technology. The salary reimbursement benefit comes from the Special Employer Incentives program, which allows employers to get money back for certain supplies, training, and equipment needed for veterans to do their jobs.

Help Foster Their Success

There is pride in knowing that you are helping a veteran. They gave so much, many of them sacrificing time with their families, to serve a cause. As a business owner, you can offer them a steady income and a way to take care of their loved ones. You could also offer them access to higher education through government programs and help them improve their lives through training and promotion opportunities. Ultimately, it creates a company image that you can benefit from as well.

Part of hiring veterans is establishing a company culture that promotes care. As the business owner, you have the opportunity to support military veterans by offering them a mutually beneficial position in your company. Keep an open dialogue with your staff so you can learn more about what they need and what they can provide your business.

Wriiten and submitted by Kelli Brewer

Purchasing and owning a boat is a major investment. If you want to get the most from your investment, you must keep your boat in working order and in good condition.

Many new boat owners don’t know how to keep up with maintenance. Fortunately, it’s not impractical if you understand what boat maintenance entails and develop a system. Below, CLR Marine discusses some maintenance essentials to prolong your boat’s lifespan and avoid safety issues on the water!

Engines

No component is perhaps more critical than your boat’s engine. Engine failure is not only inconvenient but can also be dangerous when you’re out on the water. That’s why it’s important to prepare and repair your engine while you’re on land and have access to the necessary parts.

There are many steps to checking and maintaining a boat engine, but here are a few of the most crucial ones

●Replace all engine filters and fluids each year.

●Inspect all hoses and clamps, replacing them as needed.

●Inspect the fuel system for leaks or damage, and replace any components that are not in tiptop shape. 

●Regularly evaluate the ventilation and exhaust systems.

●Regularly inspect the raw water pump, replacing the rubber impeller once a year. 

●Closely evaluate hoses, cables, and any other engine components.

The easiest way to keep up with the responsibilities is to use PDF files to track, update, and share maintenance schedules and duties. Use this tool to add pages to a PDF and easily modify the document as needed.

Electrical Components

Your boat’s electrical system is also challenging to maintain when you’re already on the water. Avoid leaving the radio, light, or other electrical parts on for extended periods when the engine is running; otherwise, you could face a dead battery.

Inspecting the battery and cable connection for corrosion and other damage is also a good idea. Replace the battery, cables, breakers, switches, fuses, and any other parts that need it. Further, you’ll want to ensure all the lights are functioning and that you have quality jumper cables for emergencies.

Hull, Propeller, and Motor

It’s critical to check the hull, propeller, and motor to ensure they are in top condition. Fight the temptation to procrastinate on replacing any necessary components until next season. The last thing you want to do is forget and face problems on the water.

The propellers should be properly secured, straight, and undamaged. Ensure the hull doesn’t have any distortions, cracks, or blisters, and give it a good deep cleaning. While you’re at it, evaluate your anchor and its rode to confirm they are up to the task.

Safety Gear

The importance of having a good set of jumper cables for emergencies. Several other items are necessary to protect you and others on the water. Make sure you have the following safety equipment and that they’re in working order:

●Life jackets

●Fire extinguishers

●Carbon monoxide detector

●A basic first aid kit

●An emergency signal kit

Cosmetics

Finally, you want to ensure your boat looks the part. This means cleaning it regularly and winterizing it for the cold months. Also, Make sure you have the right to use the right supplies and tactics to keep your vinyl upholstery sparkling and free of mildew stains.

Don’t allow your investment to go to waste. Keeping up with boat maintenance is essential for keeping your boat safe, functioning, and attractive. Coming up with a schedule and a checklist can make the difference between enjoying a long-lasting boat and paying for expensive repairs.

Would you like to read more helpful content or browse our wide selection of marine supplies? Visit CLRMarine.com today!

Written By Kelli Brewer

Check-in for your next VA appointment might be different next time you come in. Beginning this summer, some VA facilities will allow Veterans to do one or both of these:

Start the check-in process up to seven days in advance of the appointment.

Check in at the clinic using your smartphone on the day of your appointment.

As part of how VA is modernizing the way Veterans receive care, VA received extensive feedback from Veterans and caregivers about how the checking-in process can be made better, especially for those who use assistive technologies to access their benefits online.

VA’s Office of Information and Technology, partnering with VHA, has applied this feedback to the design of the new, modernized patient check-in application coming soon to your location.

VA is deploying the application at facilities geographically. Deployment within all VISNs will occur by the end of August 2022.

Read the rest of the story at; https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/104333/convenience-and-self-service-appointment-check-in-at-your-fingertips/?utm_source=Feature&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VetResources&utm_id=22JUN2022

Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) is a federal holiday in the United States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who have given the Ultimate Sacrifice while serving in the United States armed forces. It is observed on the last Monday of May. It was formerly observed on May 30 from 1868 to 1970.

Memorial Day endures as a holiday which most businesses observe because it marks the unofficial beginning of summer. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) and Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) advocated returning to the original date. The VFW stated in 2002:

Changing the date merely to create three-day weekends has undermined the very meaning of the day. No doubt, this has contributed a lot to the general public's nonchalant observance of Memorial Day.

In 2000, Congress passed the National Moment of Remembrance Act, asking people to stop and remember at 3:00 pm. You may hear Taps being played through out the United States as anyone who plays an instrument will play Taps outside for all of us to hear and Remember that our dead have given the Ultimate Sacrifice for our Country.

Rest in Peace we have the Watch

Call for the Passage of the Honoring Our PACT Act, H.R. 3967

Vietnam Veterans of America and CLR Marine is requesting that on May 17, 2022, starting at 9:00 am (EST), please call your U.S. Senator and seek their support for H.R. 3967, The Honoring Our PACT Act, when the bill comes to the floor of the Senate for passage in early June.  You must make this call before June if you can not get through on May 17th 2022...

Below is just a Sample of what you can say.

Hello, my name is (identify yourself) and I am a constituent in your state.

I am calling today to urge you to vote YES in support of H.R. 3967, the Honoring our PACT Act, introduced by Congressman Mark Takano, (CA-D-41). Title IV of this comprehensive legislation would add hypertension and monoclonal gammopathy of unspecified significance (MGUS) to the list of diseases presumed to come from exposure to Agent Orange and other toxins during the Vietnam War.

Thank you for your attention to my request and please vote YES supporting passage of H.R. 3967, the Honoring our PACT Act.

(Leave your name, home address and phone number so the office can follow up with you later.)

The Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 designates March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day. The presidential proclamation said, “With conviction, our Nation pledges our enduring respect, our continuing care, and our everlasting commitment to all Vietnam veterans.”

Dear Veteran,

The Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing changes to the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities specifically pertaining to the respiratory, auditory and mental disorders body systems.

The proposed updates to the rating schedule for these conditions will enable VA to incorporate modern medical data and terminology to provide Veterans with more accurate and consistent decisions.

Veterans who currently receive compensation for a service-connected condition in these body systems will not have their disability rating impacted when the VA Schedule for Rating Disabilities is updated. Updating the rating schedule allows Veterans to receive decisions based on the most current medical knowledge relating to their condition.

By incorporating modern medical data in the assessment of disabilities and how they impact earning capacity, Veterans will receive evaluations which more accurately compensate them for their service-connected disabilities. Proposed updates include:

• Modernizing the evaluative rating criteria for sleep apnea, using developments in medical knowledge to evaluate it based on its responsiveness to treatment, bringing the rating criteria for sleep apnea more closely in line with the stated purpose of the rating schedule.

• Evaluating tinnitus (ringing in the ears) as a symptom of the underlying disease which causes it, rather than as a stand-alone disability.

• Evaluating mental health conditions based on a more robust and holistic approach that assesses how impactful the disability is to cognition, interpersonal relationships, task completion, life activities and self-care. Additionally, the proposed evaluation criteria include a 10% minimum evaluation for having one or more service-connected mental health conditions and will no longer require “total occupational and social impairment” to attain a 100% evaluation.

No change to a Veteran’s current rating would occur due to these proposed changes. If the proposed changes are finalized, Veterans who currently receive compensation for a service-connected condition can apply for increased compensation, but no reductions shall be made unless an improvement in the Veteran’s disability is shown to have occurred. The public has 60 days to provide comments to VA regarding the two proposed updates via the Federal Register notices located here and here.

Thomas J. Murphy

Director, Northeast District

Performing the Delegable Duties of the Under Secretary for Benefits

Veterans Day is a time for us to pay our respects to all those who have served. We stand united in respect for you, our veterans.

This holiday started as a day to reflect upon the heroism of those who died in our country's service and was originally called Armistice Day. It fell on Nov. 11 because that is the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. However, in 1954, the holiday was changed to "Veterans Day" to account for all veterans in all wars.

Find a Veteran Shack their hand and tell them Thank You for serving our Great Country.

Nationwide celebrations mark 100 years of remembrance of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Nov. 10 and 11, which also marks the 246th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, will be the first time in 78 years that Tomb Guards will allow visitors to enter the chains surrounding the Tomb. The public is invited to lay individual flowers at the Tomb.

Rest in Peace Brothers and Sisters, We have the watch

November 10th, Happy 246th Birthday Brothers and Sisters

The official birthday of the United States Marine Corps is on 10 November 1775. That was the day when the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines with the following decree:

That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one Colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, two majors and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates as with other battalions, that particular care be taken that no persons be appointed to offices, or enlisted into said battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve for and during the present war with Great Britain and the Colonies; unless dismissed by Congress; that they be distinguished by the names of the First and Second Battalions of Marines.

Tun Tavern, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is regarded as the birthplace of the Corps as the location of the first Marines to enlist under Commandant Samuel Nicholas, though it is disputed if a recruiting drive may have occurred earlier at Nicholas's family tavern, the Conestoga Waggon. When the Revolutionary War ended in 1783, the Continental Navy was disestablished, and with it, the Continental Marines. The Corps was re-established on 11 July 1798, when the act for establishing and organizing a Marine Corps was signed by President John Adams.

Tuns Tavern

MARINE CORPS ORDERS

No. 47 (Series 1921)

HEADQUARTERS U.S. MARINE CORPS

Washington, November 1, 1921

The following will be read to the command on the 10th of November, 1921, and hereafter on the 10th of November of every year. Should the order not be received by the 10th of November, 1921, it will be read upon receipt.

On November 10, 1775, a Corps of Marines was created by a resolution of Continental Congress. Since that date many thousand men have borne the name "Marine". In memory of them it is fitting that we who are Marines should commemorate the birthday of our corps by calling to mind the glories of its long and illustrious history.

The record of our corps is one which will bear comparison with that of the most famous military organizations in the world's history. During 90 of the 146 years of its existence the Marine Corps has been in action against the Nation's foes. From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation after generation of Marines have grown gray in war in both hemispheres and in every corner of the seven seas, that our country and its citizens might enjoy peace and security.

In every battle and skirmish since the birth of our corps, Marines have acquitted themselves with the greatest distinction, winning new honors on each occasion until the term "Marine" has come to signify all that is highest in military efficiency and soldierly virtue.

This high name of distinction and soldierly repute we who are Marines today have received from those who preceded us in the corps. With it we have also received from them the eternal spirit which has animated our corps from generation to generation and has been the distinguishing mark of the Marines in every age. So long as that spirit continues to flourish Marines will be found equal to every emergency in the future as they have been in the past, and the men of our Nation will regard us as worthy successors to the long line of illustrious men who have served as "Soldiers of the Sea" since the founding of the Corps.

JOHN A. LEJEUNE,

Major General Commandant

VA Extends Presumptive Period for Gulf War Veterans

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We also have a custom propeller search tool, making it SUPER EASY to find your replacement propeller today!

The Veterans Health Administration is the largest integrated health system in the nation, serving 9 million veterans at 1,293 health care facilities across the country. From our frontline staff at those medical centers, to our leaders in Washington, D.C. we work daily to provide the best care anywhere to those who served. Our priority is to provide veterans timely, well-coordinated access to care.

In 2014, we faced concerns about long wait times. This led to an erosion of trust between VHA, veterans and the public. Since then, VA has undergone tremendous transformation. We are operating with a renewed focus, unprecedented transparency and increased accountability. Today, as demand for our services grows, veterans are telling us they see a real difference and their trust in us is higher than ever. We remain committed to earning and sustaining that trust.

Read more at: https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2021/09/28/quality-care-rebuilding-trust-for-all-veterans-remains-top-priority-for-va-health-care/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%209.29.21&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Military%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief