NW Navy News

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Links for the week of Nov. 20:
 
Everett's Navy League is looking for donations to help local Navy families in need this Thanksgiving http://bit.ly/2sOsZI (Everett WA Blog).
 

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I'm proud to be a part of Team Navy for an upcoming fundraising competition to benefit the Valour-IT project, which provides laptops and other adaptive technology to wounded U.S. service members. The project is sponsored by Soldiers' Angels, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting U.S. troops.

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Spouses looking for a career they can maintain during moves to duty stations around the country and the world can connect with resources to help them at an event near Tacoma next Wednesday, May 20.

The career fair, sponsored by the Washington-based nonprofit Hire America's Heroes, is open to the husbands and wives of service members in the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines, Navy, National Guard or Reserves. It will be 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the American Lake Club at Fort Lewis.

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A survey by Blue Star Families released last week indicates that most military families feel the general public doesn't understand their sacrifices.

Conducted in March, the survey of 2,796 military family members was presented to members of Congress on May 5. Blue Star Families also released an executive summary of the results on its Web site.

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