Overseas Initiative Helps POW/MIA Mission VFW National Commander Bill Thien returned this week from traveling to Moscow to continue our mission to help American researchers gain deeper access into Russia’s central military archives and potential eyewitnesses. It was a very productive trip that included meetings with the U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission and American military assigned in Moscow, as well as with two of Russia’s largest veterans’ organizations and senior members of the Russian Federation Council and State Duma. From Russia, the Chief traveled to Italy to lay wreathes at the American Cemetery in Florence, and he met with senior officers and junior enlisted assigned to U.S. Army-Africa and the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vicenza, and the Air Force’s 31st Fighter Wing at Aviano AB, to discuss how the VFW can better serve them and their families during the current budget crisis and sequester.
Posted on: Sat, 05 Oct 2013 21:30:07 +0000
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