SUNY Brockport Students Petition Congress for Veterans Benefits
Colonel Tim Vaughan (U.S. Air Force, Retired) assists a SUNY Brockport student in using MOAA’s Legislative Action Center (moaa.quorum.us), a website that allows anyone, Veteran or otherwise, to submit a letter to their 2 U.S. Senators and their U.S. Representative to advocate legislation before Congress affecting benefits for Veterans and their families.
Livingston County Veteran Stand Down, Sat Oct 10, 2026
GVC engaged veterans of Livingston County at a Veterans Stand Down event on Sat 10 Oct 2026, emphasizing MOAA’s mission to preserve and protect earned benefits for our uniformed services, veterans, their families, and surviving spouses through advocacy, leadership, education, and service, fulfilling MOAA’s promise to “Never Stop Serving.”
NYS Council of Chapters President, Norma Weissend (Right), is pictured with Allison Barkowski, Operations and Outreach Director for Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, NY-24.
Honor Flight Rochester Mission 98 Welcome Home Ceremony Wraps Up…
GVC President, Tim Vaughan (Center), is pictured with Kristi Blake, WHEC News 10 Anchor and ceremony Emcee (Left), and Kim Gould, President, Honor Flight Rochester (Right).
Tim was the Honor Flight Rochester Mission 98 Keynote Speaker for the mission’s welcome home ceremony on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
This mission was the first HFR mission to include a Bus component of 21 veterans who were unable to fly, which synchronized activities for memorial tours and also the arrival and welcome home ceremony back at the Rochester airport.
It also was a significant milestone for HFR, as this mission crossed the 5,000 veterans having gone on missions since HFR was formed in 2008.