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CHPA News
VETERANS NEWS & INFORMATION
"Aid and Attendance"
Regardless of your personal status, consider passing this along to all veterans, families of veterans or individuals with veterans in their family.
"Aid and Attendance" is an underutilized special monthly pension benefit offered by the Veterans Administration for veterans and surviving spouses who require in-home care or live in nursing homes.
To qualify, a veteran (includes the surviving spouse) must have served at least 90 days of active military service, one day of which is during a period of war, and must be discharged under conditions other than dishonorable.
The veteran's benefit is $18,234 annually (paid monthly), and increases to $21,615 if a veteran has one dependent. The surviving spouse alone is $11,715 annually.
For more information, call 1-800-827-1000, visit http://www.va.gov (type "Aid and Attendance" in the search block), or contact your local VA office. To apply on-line go to http://vabenfits.vba.va.gov/vonapp/main.asp
CHPA Establishes Scholarship Fund for Children of Helicopter Pilots and Crew
The Combat Helicopter Pilots Association is proud to announce the Blaise 'N A Trail for Education Fund. This newly established CHPA program will be used to provide scholarships for the children of combat helicopter pilots and their crew members who were lost during the recent and continuing Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts. The Fund and Scholarships will be managed by the CHPA Board of Directors. Read more.
Other News
VA offers newest edition of benefit handbook
WASHINGTON (AFRNS) -- The 2010 edition of the Federal Benefits for Veterans, Dependents and Survivors is available online at www1.va.gov/opa/publications/benefits_book.asp
<http://lyris.dmasa.dma.mil/t/2429040/4811698/11788/0/> .
Produced by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the handbook's chapters cover such topics as VA pensions, home loans, medals and records, special veterans groups, and other federal benefits.
People can view the handbook by individual chapters and sections, or download the entire document, in English or Spanish, in .pdf format.
When Chief Warrant Officer Herb Dargue joined the Army as a helicopter pilot, the Beatles' "Penny Lane" topped the charts, the UH-1C Huey was the hottest "chopper" flying, and actor William Shatner was "Star Trek's" Captain Kirk on prime time TV. Forty-three years and 21,000 flying hours later, Dargue made his last flight as a military aviator Friday. He's capping a career that has included a year in Vietnam, another year in Iraq, and service in the active Army, Army Reserve, and New York Army National Guard.
Block III technologies being tested include the composite main rotor blade, composite horizontal stabilator, and -701D engines, which include an enhanced digital electronic control unit.
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