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Bob Kingsley
Bob Kingsley is big in American Country Music circles. He’s a leading country music radio personality and host of nationally syndicated programs, a standard for over three decades. He’s also an Air Force vet who makes supporting those who serve a life priority, including Veterans Advantage partner Wounded Warrior Project.
For 27 years, Kingsley was the voice behind the nationally syndicated countdown program, "American Country Countdown" and the two-minute daily "Bob Kingsley with America's MusicMakers." After talks to renew his contract with ABC Radio broke down, he successfully re-emerged to create the popular weekly "Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40," as well as the annual "Christmas in America" and year-end countdown shows.
Following childhood dreams to break into radio, the road to success for Bob Kingsley began when he was just 18 years old, while stationed in Keflavic, Iceland with the US Air Force. There, he auditioned for an announcer spot on Armed Forces Radio Station TFK.
"I did a little audition from the production studio," he says, "and they put me on the air working all night, which was just perfect."
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Lowell McAdam
Verizon Wireless CEO Lowell McAdam is a product of hard work and a passion for leadership and technology. With a belief in building Verizon Wireless from the ground up, he expresses great confidence in the talent and persistence of those he leads. He’s also the product of a first-rate military education.
“It was an honor for me to be part of it,” he tells Veterans Advantage in an exclusive interview. "It’s a great way for anybody to start any career, no matter what they are involved in. The things you learn in the service will stay with you your whole life.”
McAdam served in the Navy’s Engineer Corps, at datelines as far away as Okinawa, and as local as San Diego. As a kid growing up in rural upstate New York, he studied hard, played sports and helped make ends meet for the family by working as a school janitor. ”I think I was very fortunate to work for some really outstanding leaders in the Navy and the Marine Corps,” says the leader of the nation’s largest voice and data network, with 86 million customers and nearly $50 billion in 2008 revenue. “You are doing things that matter. They can be life and death situations, and they are certainly important. And you must learn early on the meaning of delivering on your commitments, doing what you say.”
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Johnny Damon - The Wounded Warrior Project Has Its Own Yankee Hero
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Army brats can make great team players. And on the cusp of its 27th Major League Baseball championship, the New York Yankees can count on Johnny Damon as a leader, all-star, and supporter of the U.S. Military.
Johnny David Damon was born November 5, 1973 in Fort Riley, Kansas, the son of his mother, Yome, who is Thai and his father, Jimmy, an American staff sargent who met his wife while stationed in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. The family spent much of Damon’s early childhood moving among several bases from Okinawa, Japan, to West Germany before his father left the Army and settled the family in Orlando, Florida while Johnny was still a pre-schooler.
For several years, Damon has been known for his support of the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP), a not-for-profit organization aimed at assisting those men and women of the United States armed forces who have been severely injured during the war on terrorism [More on Veterans Advantage's own partnership with the WWP here]. He credits his relationship with his father for instilling a sense of appreciation for the military.
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Understanding Fort Hood
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Barbara Van Dahlen, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and the founder and president of Give an Hour
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For those of us who have the privilege of working with the military community, the last several days since the shooting at Fort Hood have been very painful. We know all too well what the military community has shouldered since 9/11. We know the strain that our military families have withstood since the start of the Iraq War. We also know the damage done because the attack at Fort Hood came from within. Since the attacks, our country has struggled to understand how this could happen and why this would happen. Perhaps we can best honor those who died by ensuring that these questions are answered to the best of our ability. To do this, we must have difficult conversations—which may not have easy resolutions. And most important, we must continue to take action to ensure that future tragedies are prevented.
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