Good Day Outpost 1,
I know I have been talking about it for months but the signatures for the posthumous nomination of Major John Haynes Sr. Presidential Medal of Freedom have started. I made the mistake of sending out the document with signature succession. What that means is nobody can sign the document until the previous person signs it. I’m hoping I can change that on Docusign because it would greatly speed up the signatures. Other than that, we’re getting it done.
If you missed the City Hall meeting, here is a recording of various Commanders and Veterans asking for the City to fund the Veterans Day parade. Their messages start at 4 hours and 44 minutes.
Third Aircraft Carrier and Thousands of Troops Head to Mideast as Trump Weighs New Iran Strikes
The U.S. military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Oct. 1. The bolstering of the American military presence comes as President Donald Trump warned anew that new strikes against Iran could be on the horizon.
Post 13 is organizing American Legion Riders Chapter 13, and the first planning meeting will be held Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 6:00 PM at Sauls-Bridges Post 13 in Tallahassee. The meeting is part of Operation Charter Thunder, an effort to bring together people interested in helping shape the future of the Riders at Post 13.
October 2026 Newsletter is here
Ladies, send in your news and/or events and we will include it in the weekly email. Supporting Veterans is what you do and we want to help you.
We haven’t heard much from the DAV lately. If you are a member of DAV in Tallahassee, feel free to send us news or events and we will share it.
Branch 34 is still raising funds for their memorial at the Tallahassee National Cemetery. Please contact the Fleet Reserve Association Branch 34 for more details.
Hi, Team
This past Monday, Sept 28, the Leon County Veterans Treatment Court again welcomed several NEW individuals into the specialty court for alternative paths to the regular criminal justice system. The legislative reform is working in Leon County! More Vets were congratulated for finishing their phase of the program, working toward Graduation next month! Your next opportunity to attend is Monday, October 12, 3pm, in the Leon County Courthouse, Courtroom 2E. Hope you can come observe, and may consider becoming a Veteran Mentor for one of the Vets working their way through the program.
Clinic was intense this week, as Vets drove down from Georgia, and sought an even broader variety of legal advice, emergency housing and other mutual support. In all that day, our Thursday,10 1.26, clinic team of 18 Volunteers, including 8 attys, worked with 23 Veterans and family members at the American Legion Post 13. Kudos to Veterans Sam Adams, Eddie McMillian and Lavar Parker for the Quincy farmshare trip delivering the truck and trailer load of food to Vets around Leon County Wednesday. And to Brady Ward for negotiating new legal resources to help strengthen our advocacy work with the VA.
Redux: Training was available in just the last week or so for TVLC attorneys to hear and receive materials for handling VA cases for local Veterans. Another Tallahassee lawyer, former Army JAG Brady Ward, took advantage of the opportunity and expands our Tallahassee capability to keep serving. We still need more volunteers to address this one special need: The number of issues with the VA is outstripping our local resources to keep up with the complications, new claims, and VA delays; so, any other attorneys wanting to join our “VA Law team,” we need you, and have training and national legal resources available to bring you into the fray. Were you a JAG? Have you helped with Social Security or other federal agencies that you already have a headstart on picking up VA law?
What else?
Thank you, Dan Hendrickson, for the Tallahassee Veterans Legal Collaborative www.Tallahasseeveteranslegal.com
PO Box 11091, Tallahassee, Fl 32302, 850/ 570-1967
For those of you who are annual members, the VFW Department of Florida is offering to pay half of the cost of a Life Membership until the money runs out. I paid for mine a few days ago. Let’s get Post 3308 fully stocked with life members.
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