Meade County Veterans Service Office (Sean Henderson, Emergency Manager / Veterans Service Officer)
The Meade County Veterans Service Office - Sean Henderson, who holds the Emergency Manager and Veterans Service Officer positions together, 1300 Sherman Street, Suite 103, Sturgis (605-347-7623, fax 605-720-1633), office hours 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays with appointments strongly encouraged - assists the county's veterans and their families in accessing US Department of Veterans Affairs benefits and health care, advises on state benefits and intervenes in errant VA communications; the county VSO position is an appointed, exempt three-year post created by state statute in 1944.
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For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.
The office. The county's Veteran's Services page lists Sean Henderson - Emergency Manager / Veterans Service Officer - at 1300 Sherman Street, Suite 103, Sturgis, SD 57785, 605-347-7623, fax 605-720-1633, office hours 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, "Scheduling an appointment ahead of time is strongly encouraged". The page's Current section: "The Meade County Veterans Service Officer is Sean Henderson. Office hours are normally 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Thursday, but due to volume of veteran's inquiries, you are highly encouraged to call 605-347-7623 for an appointment to ensure your issue is addressed. Calls left on voicemail will be responded to within 24 hours."
The purpose, as the page states it: "to assist the County's veterans and their families to access US Dept. of Veterans Affairs benefits and health care; advise them of possible State benefits; explain the potential impact of veteran's benefits on other Federal Programs; and quite frequently intervene in errant communications between veterans and the VA." The History section: "The position 'County Veterans Service Officer' was created by state statute in 1944. Initially, the service officer was someone who had served on active duty in the United States Military and agreed to help veterans as a sideline to their regular job as a business person, lawyer or retired person. The County Veteran's Service Officer position is an appointed, exempt position with a term of three years."
The page also carries the Documents link ("What is a Veteran's Services Office?"), the links to the South Dakota Department of the Military and Department of Veterans Affairs (mva.sd.gov), the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Make the Connection, and the county's war-casualty roll - the World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam and War on Terrorism names taken from the South Dakota Department of Military and Veterans Affairs' master list of over 2,800 South Dakotans recorded as war casualties, among them the War on Terrorism's Brett Lundstrom and Christopher Soelzer.
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Any veteran or their family
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