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Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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Vets turning to satellite offices
Cass County Correspondent WALKER - Faye Dudley, Cass County veterans services officer, reported Tuesday to the county board veterans increasingly are coming to the office in Walker or satellite offices around the county rather than calling by phone.
She said she believes more people have become aware of services and make appointments rather than calling to inquire whether they might qualify. The number of veterans in the county has declined by about 400 since 2002 as the World War II veterans have aged, she said.
As younger veterans return from Iraq and Afghanistan, she said she expects the veteran population to rebound.
Plans already are in place to provide those returning vets with an enrollment program at Fort McCoy in Wisconsin where there will be processed out of their active service before returning home. Dudley will be among veterans services officers providing a few days each during a 20-day period when those veterans are processed through Fort McCoy, she said.
She has met with veterans families in Brainerd and will meet with others this weekend in a re-integration seminar for families at Bemidji. Though there is a fairly high population of people serving from Cass County in Iraq now, she said she has struggled to get a re-integration program authorized within the county, because there no longer is a National Guard unit based inside the county.
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