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🚀 Empowering Our Female Veterans: Insights from the FVA Workshop 🚀 We're excited to share key insights from the recent Female Veterans Alliance (FVA) Workshop held in October 2023! This workshop focused on addressing the unique challenges faced by female veterans and identifying actionable steps to enhance their support and integration into civilian life. 🌟 Key Takeaways: 🔹 Health & Wellbeing: Discussions emphasised the need for tailored health services that cater specifically to female veterans' needs. 🔹 Career Transition: Strategies were developed to support female veterans in their career transitions, including mentorship programs and job placement services. 🔹 Community Building: Importance of fostering a strong community among female veterans to provide mutual support and camaraderie. 🔹 Policy Advocacy: Efforts to influence policy changes that address the specific issues faced by female veterans, ensuring their voices are heard at the highest levels. Quote from the Workshop: "We are committed to breaking down barriers and creating pathways for our female veterans to thrive in all aspects of their lives." - Workshop Participant Join us in supporting our female veterans by spreading awareness and advocating for the necessary changes to enhance their lives! 💪 Our next workshop is 26th September in Swansea. Limited spaces left. Register: https://lnkd.in/eiRfMG4x Read the commentary and recommendations from the October workshop report here: https://lnkd.in/ekA82K2x #FVA #JoinTheDots #HearOurVoice #FemaleVeterans

It’s not the test, it’s the mindset of the soldier. You can’t jump into a new situation with no prior training and expect to pass first time go. To many, the ACFT is a difficult physical test. To some, it comes naturally. For all, you need to train yourself through personal exercise in your free time or through PRT to achieve the score you want. Now, the concept of PRT is great. Someone in the comments used “Armyfied” as a term and I think it’s genius to describe the PRT program. There’s to much of the drill and ceremony aspect in the drills. Also, PRT has become more of a social gathering than a period of exercise to progress towards your goals for the ACFT. What do y’all think about the ACFT and the Army’s movement to the Hollistic Health and Fitness (H2F) program?

🚨 Mark Your Calendars! 🚨 We're excited to announce that MWS25 will be coming to the National Capitol Region/Washington, DC area in early March 2025. Stay tuned for more details—this is an event you won't want to miss! At The Valkyrie Project, we're passionate about uncovering the untapped potential of American female service members and equipping them to meet the challenges of 2025 and beyond. Our annual Military Women’s Symposium (MWS) is more than just an event; it's a movement. We bring together the latest in research, technology, and innovation to empower women to answer the nation’s call across the full spectrum of conflict. Why do we do this? Because women are under-researched in the scientific community, and that gap has real implications for the Department of Defense. Recent initiatives like the Biden/Harris Administration’s “The White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research” are shining a light on these issues, and the DoD is taking note. With more women seeking combat arms and special operations roles, the time to act is now. The Valkyrie Project’s MWS is our commitment to ensuring that every capable woman who wants to serve is given the tools, resources, and support to succeed. This isn’t about gender—it's about maximizing potential and ensuring our military is as strong and effective as it can be. Join us for the Military Women's Symposium and connect, empower, and inspire—register your interest by following this link! ----> https://lnkd.in/e6PNyBnt 🎥 In the meantime, catch up on all our past symposium recordings for free on our YouTube channel: The Valkyrie Project - YouTube ----> https://lnkd.in/eDr9RumX #MilitaryWomensSymposium #MWS25 #TheValkyrieProject #WomenInService #DefenseInnovation #MilitaryResearch #Leadership

https://lnkd.in/ecjveUgw Founded in 2014, World BEYOND War is a global grassroots network of volunteers, activists, and allied organizations advocating for the abolition of war and its replacement with an alternative global security system based on peace, nonviolence, and demilitarization. Our work debunks the myths that war is inevitable, just, necessary, or beneficial. Our peace education programs lay out the strategies needed to demilitarize security, manage conflict nonviolently, and cultivate a culture of peace. Our grassroots campaigns focus on weapons divestment and closing military bases around the world. Our offerings include webinars, podcasts, conferences, mapping militarism charts, online courses, books, articles, an online study and discussion guide, peace almanac, and much more. Members in 175 countries have signed the Declaration of Peace. 🕊️ #UK #UnitedKingdom Labour Party (UK) The Labour Party House of Commons The Labour Party 10 Downing Street Keir Starmer #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #NeverForget #Lebanese #Lebanon 🕊️ #USA #UnitedStates #Germany # #Holland #Netherlands #Dutch #France #London #Birmingham #Manchester David Lammy Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office UK Mission to the United Nations #Fundraising Greater Manchester Combined Authority

The growth of the B Corp community in the UK has been phenomenal, doubling in size to 2,000 companies over the last 18 months. (Prepandemic there were ~3,000 B Corps globally, and now there’s 8,200+). This is a reflection of growing brand recognition in the market and across industries (including B2C, B2B and B2G). Simply put, B Corp company leaders and brands are demonstrating credible leadership, innovating and outperforming on purpose and impact. Congrats to many friends and colleagues in the UK who are leading the way! I look forward to the Better Business Act passing soon as well! We still have a way to go in Canada, the US and other G7 / G20 countries to reach a tipping point where we truly create more economic systems change. This will require more leaders of large national and global companies also stepping up. I’m very encouraged by the growing number of executives, boards and investors I’m advising and meeting who have come to recognize the importance of B Corp. Most have come to understand that it is a critical enabler of stakeholder trust, enhanced value creation, brand reputation, credibility and future-fitness. So it’s becoming core to business growth and impact strategy… and being built into 2025-2030 strategic roadmaps. Happy to chat with more leaders who will benefit from my briefing them on B Corp, including new standards that raise the bar on purpose-driven, sustainable business leadership. If you’re simply thinking about incremental ESG reporting or new EU standards then we should really chat and I can help bring you up the curve. Feel free to comment “let’s chat”, direct message me or reach out at msmith@impactbridge.co

A big thank you to the AVERT Research Network for facilitating tonight's webinar based on the new Routledge Handbook of Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation. This evening featured some interesting discussions by Michele Grossman AM, Emily Corner, and more. The panel examined the development of P/CVE across the last two decades, the importance of working with communities, the nexus between radicalization and psychopathology, and the important use of public health models in P/CVE. Some key insights🔍: ▪ There is a need for clarification regarding different sociological understandings of defining 'groups'/'communities' to avoid undermining P/CVE efforts. Previous efforts have created 'suspect’ communities, largely felt in the scaling of programs, and program securitization. ▪ Communities have a lack of trust and awareness of P/CVE dynamics, namely in those designing P/CVE programs and initiatives. Future Considerations📝: ▪ Current and future approaches are moving away from diagnostics and towards individual needs. This includes examining an individual’s lifespan and the risk and protective factors at play leading to radicalization. ▪ There is a noticeable policy gap because governments place themselves outside of P/CVE frameworks. Governments could be more open and adaptable with their resources, protective factors, and how to use these in a meaningful way in the social-ecological matrix. ▪ Given that public health's focus is on populations rather than individuals, can P/CVE achieve the same level of precision that public health models can in the prevention space? How would successful public health programmatic work translate to successful P/CVE programming? I'm always grateful to be an active ECR member of the AVERT Research Network, the community, and a beneficiary of Nell Bennett's seamless coordination👥

Virginia Military Institute lists Philip Crane '16 (2016 graduate, Peay Fellow, and current Adjunct Professor at VMI) as an adjunct professor. This is the same Philip Crane who held a leadership role for a student group which blamed Israel for the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. > Does the current VMI Administration truly condone antisemitism among its faculty? > Does the current VMI Administration also allow its professors to preach antisemitism to cadets? > Is this the kind of person granted a Peay Fellowship? > Why is the current Administration silent on these questions? > Why is the VMI Board of Visitors silent on these questions? "Questions raised about antisemitic Peay Endowment professor" https://lnkd.in/gSjJvxDJ "Questions Raised About VMI Professor Supporting Radical Causes" https://lnkd.in/gmGRJpCz "VMI visiting professor led Columbia University group that blamed Israel for Oct. 7" https://lnkd.in/guZvaK6Q

Project 2025—because nothing says "making America great again" like dismantling the Department of Education and further fostering the educational deficiencies that gave rise to a new breed of American wannabe Nazis. Yes, folks, if you think our education system is struggling now, just wait until it’s handed over to the states with all the regulatory oversight of a lemonade stand. This brilliant scheme, concocted by the Heritage Foundation and cheered on by a cadre of conservative organizations, promises to transfer the functions of the Department of Education to other agencies or eliminate them entirely. Because who needs federal oversight or educational equity when you can have "freedom" from bureaucratic red tape? The plan involves giving states unregulated block grants, which basically means, "Here’s some money, do whatever you want with it, no strings attached." The rationale behind this master plan? To reduce federal oversight and bureaucracy in education, boost state control, and ensure educational policies reflect good ol' conservative values. Translation: no more gender ideology, no more critical race theory, and definitely no more pesky civil rights protections currently enforced by the Department of #Education's Office of Civil Rights. Of course, this grand vision might slightly undermine educational equity, particularly for low-income and special needs #students who currently benefit from federal programs and protections. But hey, who cares about them when there’s a culture war to be won? And let's not forget the broader implications: massive changes to other federal agencies, a relentless push to reduce regulation, slashing funding for #socialprograms, and restructuring civil service roles to ensure they align with conservative ideals. Because what could possibly go wrong when you gut the institutions designed to help the most vulnerable among us? #Project2025 promises to turbocharge the very failures in our educational system that have contributed to the rise of the new #AmericanNazi movement. So, buckle up, #America—it's going to be a bumpy ride! #Nashville #DEI #ESG #NoMorePoliticsOnLinkedIn LEARN MORE HERE: 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 https://lnkd.in/eJP6AjSz ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️ #BobRutherford #Satire #Business #Politics #Education #TrumpsWorse #LearningWithoutScars LearningWithoutScars.org

Do you work with women veterans and would like to learn more? Here’s a free course! I’ve just completed the online training course: ‘Introduction to women veterans’ experiences and needs’ You can find out more about this and other free training available here 👇 https://veterans.training/

Life imitates art: There’s a real-life counterpart to this freakazoid character “Jeffrey Goines” from Terry Gilliam’s immortal sleeper “Twelve Monkeys” — and his name is Fergie Chambers. Among the multiplicity of radical leftist causes he espouses and the various related movements he pours his inherited millions into, Chambers happens to favor both the destruction of Israel as a sovereign Jewish state as well as the disempowerment of Israel’s Zionist supporters in the US and elsewhere — anonymous perpetrators of recent alleged bomb threats targeting synagogues in Massachusetts may well have taken their cue from him (including the prospect of financial support for any legal needs), and there’s a potentially even stronger case to be made that he underwrote an alleged attempted arson, in late Autumn 2023, on the Merrimack, New Hampshire manufacturing facility of Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems USA where company personnel were working. As disconcerting if not more, Chambers doesn’t seem particularly perturbed by the prospect that his desired scenarios (regarding Israel, and regarding those outside of the Jewish State supporting the national self-determination of the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland) offer overwhelmingly strong probabilities for wide-ranging violence impacting untold numbers of Jews, even slaughter on a massive scale. Admittedly, unlike Brad Pitt’s “Jeffrey Goines,” it doesn’t appear that Fergie Chambers has spent any detectable period of time in a mental health institution — but he did emerge from his formative years with arguably an even more twisted approach to the world, plus an even larger treasure trove. Details per articles linked in the Comments section below.