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/PRNewswire/ The Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) has selected the 2023 recipients of its annual awards honoring lawmakers, individuals,.
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Norcross Defense Fellow Honored for Work to Improve Lives of Military Families; First Ever Defense Fellow to Receive Award February 18, 2021, 4:30 pm | in
Norcross Defense Fellow Honored for Work to Improve Lives of Military Families; First Ever Defense Fellow to Receive Award
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01) announced today that the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) has awarded Norcross’ 2020 Defense Legislative Fellow, Major Craig A. Overholt, the Colonel Paul W. Arcari Meritorious Service Award, an award that honors congressional staffers who have made significant contributions to the military community.
The award comes following the hard work Major Overholt has done this year on Department of Defense child care issues. Major Overholt worked on a provision included in this year’s National Defenses Authorization Act (NDAA) that provides an on base housing preference for servicemembers whos
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) has selected the 2021 recipients of its annual awards that honor lawmakers, individuals, businesses and nonprofits whose efforts improve the lives of servicemembers and veterans and their families. The recipients:
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) will receive the Arthur T. Marix Congressional Leadership Award. As chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Inhofe championed the Senate s bipartisan FY 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that includes pay raises for troops, continues stringent oversight of military privatized housing, and addresses mental health and suicide prevention. He also was an original cosponsor of the Military Widow s Tax Elimination Act of 2019, which led to the repeal of the widows tax, a financial penalty affecting more than 66,000 military survivors across the country. Speier was instrumental in including imp