American Legion's Ariel DeJesus, USMC veteran and Assistant Director of the Legion's Veterans Employment & Education Division, discusses veteran employment, transition assistance programs & upcoming career fairs.

On this edition of the Morning Briefing, Host Eric Dehm and Producer Jake Hughes start the show with a discussion on how difficult it can be for vets to find a job, using their own careers as examples. Between the two of them, Jake & Eric applied to over 200 radio stations before being hired for the ConnectingVets project. Later, the Founder of Boulder Crest Retreat Ken Falke returns to the show along with the Executive Director of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth Josh Goldberg!

American Legion's Ariel DeJesus, USMC veteran and Assistant Director of the Legion's Veterans Employment & Education Division, discusses veteran employment, transition assistance programs & upcoming career fairs.

On this edition of the Morning Briefing, Host Eric Dehm and Producer Jake Hughes start the show with a discussion on how difficult it can be for vets to find a job, using their own careers as examples. Between the two of them, Jake & Eric applied to over 200 radio stations before being hired for the ConnectingVets project. Later, the Founder of Boulder Crest Retreat Ken Falke returns to the show along with the Executive Director of the Boulder Crest Institute for Posttraumatic Growth Josh Goldberg!

HillVets Founder & CEO Justin Brown joins the show to talk about the recent HillVets100 selections, the defense budget plans, veteran programs funding and some interesting developments regarding the future of the chair of the House Veterans Committee, Rep. Phil Roe.

On this edition of the Morning Briefing, Host Eric Dehm and Producer Jake Hughes kick off the show discussing the defense budget plan from the Pentagon before moving on to discussing the interesting media coverage of North Korea and a petition asking the government to take over the historic Mare Island Naval Cemetery.Then, Eric speaks with USAR LTC Shawn Connolly, who is running for Govenor of Connecticut.

On this edition of the Morning Briefing, Host Eric Dehm and Producer Jake Hughes kick off the show discussing the defense budget plan from the Pentagon before moving on to discussing the interesting media coverage of North Korea and a petition asking the government to take over the historic Mare Island Naval Cemetery.Then, Eric speaks with USAR LTC Shawn Connolly, who is running for Govenor of Connecticut.

HillVets Founder & CEO Justin Brown joins the show to talk about the recent HillVets100 selections, the defense budget plans, veteran programs funding and some interesting developments regarding the future of the chair of the House Veterans Committee, Rep. Phil Roe.

After President Trump asked the military's top brass to look into creating a parade, "like the one in France" veterans, military members and everyone else in the country suddently had an opinion.  We asked VFW National Spokeperson, Joe Davis, Connecting Vets Reporter Jake Hughes and our Facebook audience to find out how America feels about a military parade.   

After President Trump asked the military's top brass to look into creating a parade, "like the one in France" veterans, military members and everyone else in the country suddently had an opinion.  We asked VFW National Spokeperson, Joe Davis, Connecting Vets Reporter Jake Hughes and our Facebook audience to find out how America feels about a military parade.