Issue Position: Veterans, Servicemembers & Military Families

Issue Position

The daughter of a World War II veteran, Governor Maggie Hassan is committed to fulfilling our obligations to our veterans by ensuring that they and their families receive the benefits they've earned and by supporting efforts to help our returning servicemen and women secure high quality jobs.

As Governor, Maggie helped launch Operation VETS Connect to enhance New Hampshire's existing efforts to support veteran hiring. She worked to hire more veterans service officers at the New Hampshire Office of Veterans Services, increased funding for the state Veterans Home to serve more veterans and provided funding for the construction of a new unit at the state Veterans Home to care for veterans with dementia. Maggie also helped make permanent a commission studying the effects of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury suffered by members of the armed forces and veterans in the line of duty. And as Commander in Chief of the New Hampshire National Guard, she has stood up for our highly skilled guardsmen and women, fighting against federal cuts to National Guard resources and advocating for the basing of the new KC-46A air refueling tanker with the 157th Air Refueling Wing at Pease Air National Guard base.

In the wake of the inexcusable VA scandal, Maggie supports ongoing reform efforts, including mandatory random audits of VA hospitals. In the Senate, Maggie will continue to fight for veterans, servicemembers and military families and ensure that they have access to the services they need and have earned. And she will oppose efforts to privatize the VA.

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