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HEALTH CARE
Guarantee that our military heroes and their families have access to timely, high quality health care.
Provide gender-specific health care and services to protect and honor our women heroes.
Aggressively improve the mental health services provided to our service members, veterans, and their families.
Fully research and understand “moral injury” and discover better ways to help those who struggle.
Utilize complementary and alternative therapies to combat PTSD.
Utilize complementary and alternative therapies to prevent suicides.
Launch National Opioid Withdrawal (NOW), 1787’s program that targets the opioid public health emergency.
Ensure that our military heroes receive adequate, discreet care in the aftermath of military sexual trauma (and that these heinous crimes are fully prosecuted).
EMPLOYMENT
Offer better support to military spouses and partners, including appropriate education and employment.
Make sure every military hero has rewarding employment opportunities when they leave the service.
Encourage the acceptance of military training and experience to be acceptable for licenses and credentials in specialized fields.
Allow certain GI Bill funds to be used for small-business capitalization.
Mandate that a certain number of federal contracts be awarded to businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
EDUCATION
Our military heroes earn their education benefits in the most difficult way possible. Protect these benefits at all costs.
Guarantee that all military children have access to high-quality education, from pre-k through college.
Offer better support to military spouses and partners, including appropriate education and employment.
Expand the “Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant” to include students whose parent/guardian died because of military service anywhere.
WE GOT YOU!
Work hard to boost the morale of our troops and make certain our country is one they are proud to fight for.
Make certain compensation and benefits reflect the high-level of dedication and service of our service members. Ferociously protect their hard-earned benefits. Do not ever, ever allow sequestration to reduce our service member’s hard-earned benefits.
Immediately address the racial disparities that plague our military.
Maintain a ZERO TOLERANCE policy regarding sexual assault and sexual harassment. Remove the investigation and prosecution of these cases to special victims’ prosecutors, outside of the chain of command.
To any extent possible, commit to more flexibility in military life, including more reasonable extended leave policies.
Make the Child Development Centers (CDC), Family Child Care (FCC) and School-age Care Programs (SAC) free for military families.
Make the military-to-civilian transition as seamless as possible for every member of the family.
Eliminate the funding fee associated with the Home Loan Guaranty program.
Reinstitute strict restrictions on payday lenders and ferociously protect the Military Lending Act.