Female veterans, service members not seeking needed services
The Bangor Daily News reports:
Maine — If you’ve served in the military, that makes you a veteran, right?
Right, but far too many vets in Maine — particularly women — either don’t know or are ignoring their veteran status and all of the support and benefits that come with it.
That was part of the impetus for Volunteers of America to sponsor simultaneous conferences Tuesday called “After the Uniform: Responding to America’s Women Warriors.”
Priscilla Kerbrat is one of them. She graduated high school in June 1980 and by the end of that month she had enlisted in the Navy. She met her husband while stationed in Newport, Rhode Island, and about a year later, she left the Navy to raise their first son. Kerbrat’s military career continued for another two years in the reserves.
