VFW was front and center when the President announced a Veterans Job Corps initiative aimed at helping veterans find pathways to employment. Some of the initiatives include grants to communities that recruit and hire veterans to serve as police, firefighters and other first responders. The program also includes additional support for veterans’ entrepreneurship and intensive reemployment services for Post 9/11 veterans. Said VFW National Commander Richard DeNoyer, “There is no initiative too bold when it comes to helping veterans get jobs, especially with the new generation of post-9/11 warriors now reentering society in numbers not seen since the Vietnam War. Our nation and her public and private employer partners must do everything possible to not only ensure their smooth transition, but to enlist their extraordinary talents to help serve and protect our nation and communities, and to help restore our economy to greatness. We thank President Obama for continuing to move the issue of veterans’ employment forward, and for his strong commitment to those who have worn the uniform and to their families.” Read more on the White House website at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/02/03/president-obama-s-plan-put-veterans-back-work, and on the VFW blog at http://www.vfwonthehill.org/2012/02/vfw-applauds-presidential-jobs.html