VETERANS AFFIARS
SOC 331
Beverly Rudnick
ASHFORD UNIVERSITY
24 JANUARY 2011
VETERANS AFFAIRS
I chose to write about Veterans Affairs because it’s close to my heart. I am a combat veteran of the United States Army. I was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and to Afghanistan in 2008. I think that after putting our lives on line for this country that we our needs should be taken care of by the government whether medical, educational, compensation and pension, or home loan insurance.
The United States of Department of Veterans Affairs is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for administering programs of veterans, their families, and survivors. It is administered by the United States Secretary of Veteran Affairs. The Veterans Administration was created by an executive order by President Herbert Hoover in 1930. On October 25, 1988, President Reagan signed legislation creating a new federal Cabinet level Department of Veterans Affairs to replace the Veterans Administration effective March 15, 1989.
The department of Veteran Affairs is the federal government second largest department. The...