The Department of Veterans Affairs Voluntary Service (VAVS) was founded in 1946 to provide for our Nation's Veterans while they are cared for by VA health care facilities. It is the largest centralized volunteer program in the Federal government with over 350 organizations supporting VAVS, including the Marine Corps League Pvt Charles J Shutt Detachment. VAVS volunteers have donated 508 million hours of service since 1946

Lenny O'Brien (1928 - 2010), Shutt Detachment VAVS Representative

Fri, 04/23/2010 - 08:01 — shuttvavs

For decades Lenny O'Brien had served as a tireless supporter of the Veteran Community. Winner of countless awards from the Veterans Administration for his thousands of volunteer hours with the Veteran Administration Voluntary Services (VAVS), he has now gone to meet those that he worked so hard to have a meaningful civilian life while on this earth.

Combat Operational Stress Month

Fri, 06/18/2010 - 08:21 — shuttvavs

CAMP PENDLETON ---- May's Memorial Day reminds us of heroes lost, and now June has been designated by a military support group to recall heroes still in harm's way.

Marine Corps Community Services has named June as "Combat Operational Stress Month" in an effort to raise awareness of combat-related mental issues.

VA Announces Change to Medication Copays for Some Veterans

Fri, 06/18/2010 - 08:19 — shuttvavs

VA Announces Change to Medication Copays for Some Veterans - As previously announced on January 7, 2010, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) froze prescription copayment increases for six months.

Call it Quits with new TRICARE Smoking Quitline

Fri, 06/18/2010 - 08:18 — shuttvavs

Call it Quits with new TRICARE Smoking Quitline - FALLS CHURCH, Va. – TRICARE’s Smoking Quitline is now accepting calls! All non-Medicare eligible TRICARE beneficiaries within the U.S.

Pay Boost for Chapter 61 retirees

Thu, 06/03/2010 - 10:21 — shuttvavs

House Democratic leaders unveiled a plan late Thursday to provide a temporary increase in retired pay for about 30,000 people whose military careers were cut short by severe service-connected disabilities.

For 22 months — from Jan. 1, 2011, until Sept. 30, 2012 — people with fewer than 20 years of service who are receiving military disability retired pay for service-connected disabilities rated by the Veterans Affairs Department at 100 percent would be allowed to receive full veterans’ disability and military retired pay.

Also eligible would be people who are formally rated as 90 percent disabled but are considered fully disabled because their injuries prevent them from holding a job.

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