Congress Tackles Vet Employment: The Senate Veterans Affairs Committee is holding its first hearing of the New Year on the Administration’s progress with programs to help veterans find employment today. It’s being Web cast live and archived on the committee Web site. Lawmakers expressed concern over recent findings by the Labor Department that veterans aged 20 to 24 are twice as likely as their non-vet counterparts to be jobless.
Air Force Gen. Jacqueline D. Van Ovost—a trailblazer and one of the first 10 women to reach a four-star rank across the U.S. military—retired and passed control of U.S. Transportation Command to Air Force Gen. Randall Reed on Oct. 4, finishing an eventful tenure at TRANSCOM.