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The Oklahoma Veterans Commission announced on Monday the appointment of Rear Admiral James (Jay) Bynum, USN (Ret.) as the new Executive Director of the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs.
In March 2023, Slavonic was appointed executive director of the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs (ODVA). [9] The agency manages seven veterans’ homes across the state, provides services to over 350,000 Oklahoma veterans, and oversees a team of 1,500 employees. [ 10 ]
The Department is funded primarily from three sources: yearly appropriations, patient fees, and federal funding. The United States Department of Veterans Affairs provides the Department a federal per diem payment per veteran in each Department Veterans Center. Each of the three funding sources makes up roughly one-third of the total budget of ...
Under Oklahoma state law, any person the Governor appoints to serve as the Secretary must be an honorably discharged veteran and be eligible to receive benefits from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Oklahoma state law always for Cabinet Secretaries to serve concurrently as the head of a State agency in addition to their duties ...
Rob Arrington, Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs’ director of homes, said it would not affect any current or incoming residents. Oklahoma veterans homes may have 126 beds removed under ...
The Sallisaw veterans home was originally scheduled to be open by now, but the opening was pushed back after the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs encountered construction flaws that are the ...
If confirmed by the Oklahoma Senate, Aragon will become the first woman to hold that position. As secretary, Aragon will be Fallin's chief adviser on matters related to the policies and operations of the Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs. Aragon was sworn in as the Secretary of Veterans Affairs on January 10, 2011.
Guy Toshimitsu Kiyokawa (born 1963) is an American government official and retired United States Army officer. [1] The United States Department of Veteran Affairs' assistant secretary for the Office of Enterprise Integration since 2021, he served as acting United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs in 2023, following the departure of Donald Remy.