Howard County Veterans Service Office

05/30/2022

Grilled Pork Burgers and hotdogs will be served at noon today. A Memorial Day tradition at the Mission. Please join us.

02/24/2022

The Indianapolis VA Medical Center of Veteran Health Indiana will have their Veteran
Outreach Team in Brownsburg, Indiana, on Friday, February 25, 2022, from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m., at the Lowe’s Home Improvement store located at 630 West Northfield
Drive, Brownsburg, Indiana 46112.
The team will be set-up at the entrance of Lowe’s to talk with Veterans on topics
such as:

• Applying for VA health care benefits – primary, mental health, and specialty care;
• Our new VA Clinics in Brownsburg, Lafayette, and Terre Haute, Indiana;
• Information on VA benefits – GI Bill, training, compensation, home loans;
• Burial and memorial benefits;
• Resources on su***de prevention awareness and military sexual trauma;
• COVID and flu vaccines
Be sure to stop by and visit with our experts and discuss how get the benefits you've earned.

02/24/2022

02/18/2022

Dunham was the first Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor since Vietnam.

02/09/2022

Today’s military recruits are more likely than ever to sustain a serious injury at their initial military training. Here’re some tips for how to prepare before shipping out.

02/02/2022

We can properly dispose of your flags for you. Visit us at the Veterans Service Office downtown Kokomo.

Shout out to Howard County Treasurer Christie Branch, the Association of Indiana Counties and the National Association of Counties for providing a new Official US Flag Retirement Box for our entryway. If you have an old American Flag that you would like to dispose of, please drop it off in our office and we will make sure Old Glory is rendered a proper retirement. Thank you.

02/02/2022

Shout out to Howard County Treasurer Christie Branch, the Association of Indiana Counties and the National Association of Counties for providing a new Official US Flag Retirement Box for our entryway. If you have an old American Flag that you would like to dispose of, please drop it off in our office and we will make sure Old Glory is rendered a proper retirement. Thank you.

01/28/2022

It is a beautiful snowy morning in downtown Kokomo at the Howard County Veterans Service Office.

01/26/2022

We loved hosting 100-year-old World War II Coast Guard veteran Betty Cowgill in the Howard County Veterans Service Office this afternoon. Betty was a trailblazer for future generations of women to serve in the Armed Forces. What a great inspiration! (Pictured are Connie Paauwe, Debra Rahe, Betty Cowgill and Dean Hockney)