Jeff Bates is a psychologist, the director of Crisis Operations at the Veterans Crisis Line and now a captain in the Army Reserve. He hails from a family with military history, including two grandfathers who served in World War II. That history influences his thoughts on joining the Reserve: “This decision is one that impacts […]

This month’s Center for Women Veterans Book Corner author is Army Veteran Joanna Rakowski, who served from 2000 to 2004. She wrote a memoir “Chasing the Daylight: One Woman’s Journey to Becoming a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer.”  Joanna Rakowski was born and raised in Poland, and she immigrated to the U.S. in 1995. While in […]

If you want to live somewhere with a strong sense of history, consider a career at the Jack C. Montgomery VA Medical Center in Muskogee, Oklahoma, one of the many rural VA locations around the country.