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Rosalie Liotta, who served in the women’s branch of the U.S. Naval Reserve during World War II, with Kaitlyn Nelsen, the Million Veteran Program research coordinator at the New Mexico VA.

VA’s Million Veteran Program seeking female Veterans for genetic-based studies

Posted on Friday, June 12, 2020 9:00 amJune 4, 2020 Posted in Honoring Vets, Research by Mike Richman 5k views

Rosalie Liotta and Cathy Adkins enrolled in VA’s MVP, which learns how genes, lifestyle, and military …

2020 National VA Research Week

2020 National VA Research Week: `Empowering Veterans Through Research’

Posted on Tuesday, May 12, 2020 8:00 amMay 8, 2020 Posted in Research by Mike Richman 839 views

This year, National VA Research Week, May 11–15, focuses on "Empowering Veterans Through Research." Since …

The Tuskegee Airmen were a famed African-American aviation unit in World War II.

`We were soldiers like any other outfit’

Posted on Friday, April 24, 2020 2:00 pmApril 21, 2020 Posted in Honoring Vets by Mike Richman 4k views

Veteran Oscar Gadson served as a Tuskegee airman and a Buffalo soldier in World War II and took part in …