This is The Back Brief for the week of 5 March 2020

• National Guard Chief Predicts thousands will be activated
• VA closes regional benefits offices
• Trump calls on Syrian government to free journalist, Marine Austin Tice
• Pentagon to provide respirators masks and ventilators to fight coronavirus 
• VA says COVID19 could affect 20% of it's patients

Go to www.connectingvets.com for all of these stories and more!

This episode we’re talking about the Veteran related stories surrounding the coronavirus.

This week at Connecting Vets

• Troops can't travel to these countries for the next 60 days

• As colleges close over coronavirus, lawmakers file emergency bill to protect GI Bill benefits

• National Guard members still have to travel for drill amid coronavirus concerns

• Marine in Virginia tests positive for coronavirus
• DeCA increasing air shipments to overseas commissaries in response to coronavirus

Go to www.connectingvets.com for all of these stories and more!

He's one of television's biggest voices, but before Matt Baker was the voice of Discovery's Shark Week, he was a Marine.  In our interview, Baker and CBS Eye on Veterans host Phil Briggs offer advice for anyone looking to get into the voice acting.  He also explains; what kind of training you'll need, how to build a simple home studio and how to begin booking work as a voice actor.  

This is The Back Brief for the week of February 28, 2020

• Veterans of "black goo" base to appear before Congress

• 19-year-old from Arkansas faces charges of trying to blow up vehicle at Pentagon parking lot
•  A privatized housing crisis that some say not even a tenant bill of rights can fix
• Corona Virus Update
• VA tells Congress it is prepared for possible coronavirus outbreak in US

Go to www.connectingvets.com for all of these stories and more!

This is The Back Brief for the week of February 20, 2020

• Pentagon plans to force 200k family members, retirees out of military hospitals to civilian doctors

• Operation Benjamin: Honoring fallen Jewish servicemen with the right headstones
• Helping veterans with his love of food, Army veteran takes traumatized veterans under his wing
• Black History Month
• CBS Eye on Veterans

Go to www.connectingvets.com for all of these stories and more!

This is The Back Brief for the week of February 14, 2020

• Did the VA secretary seek to discredit a Veteran who reported a sexual assault at a VA hospital?
• A new bill helps Veterans find STEM jobs.
• Military installations could house coronavirus evacuees.
• Congress wants to know why White supremacy on social media isn’t tracked by the US Military.
• A VA recommended app could access your private data. 

Go to www.connectingvets.com for all of these stories and more!

Lacey Evans is the classy yet fierce star of WWE Smackdown.  In her interview on CBS Eye on Veterans, she talked with host, Phil Briggs about being a Marine and her guest spots on Military Makeover with Montel Williams. (also a fellow veteran) She also shares details about the heartwarming episode that airs on Lifetime on Valentine's Day. 

On This week’s “The Back Brief” we talk about the State of the Union, water contamination on military bases, the VA deputy secretary getting fired, and a new program matching service dogs with veterans, and Phil Briggs talks about this weekend's CBS Eye On Veterans!  

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While we're producing the next season of VetStory, we're happy to introduce you to one of our podcast partners "Team Room Talk with Chris Mcphee". Host Chris Mcphee is a retired Green Beret who has some amazing and candid conversations with his guests that range from entrepreneurs to elite military operators. I think you're really going to like this show.

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