Monday, November 14, 2011 the Golden Corral Restaurant will be providing a Military Appreciation Dinner for ALL military personnel and veterans – free of charge. Visit their website at: www.goldencorral.com Guidance Aviation provides high altitude helicopter and fixed wing flight training utilizing the newest aircraft and best equipment available. For more information, go to http://www.guidance.aero … Continued
Helicopter flight training students, veterans, family and friends at the Guidance Aviation August 2011 BBQ.Enjoy and click on the pics to enlarge. Once again, the weather was perfect in Prescott for BBQ-ing and flying. John Stonecipher, CEO, Guidance Aviation hands check to Dr. Penelope Wills, Yavapai College and establishes The Guidance Scholarship for flight training … Continued
http://www.yc.edu/v4content/veterans-upward-bound/default.htm On November 23rd, December 22nd and December 28th, 2011, there will be free access to Skype during the Holidays at the Prescott Valley Public Library in the virtual reality room for families of U.S. Military service personnel. From 9am to 7pm there will be eighteen (18) sessions available and reservation are required. The person(s) … Continued
http://www.homedepotfoundation.org/ The Home Depot Foundation is running a special program to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11. This is a wonderful opportunity for Service Members that meet the criteria.From 11 Sep 11 through Veteran’s Day (Nov 11), Home Depot is offering to conduct work projects on military member’s personal homes. Home Depot will provide the … Continued
Case Study No. 2 in our series on “Veterans Using Post 9/11 GI Bill® benefits for helicopter flight training” features Ruben Velasco, US Army Veteran and Guidance Aviation helicopter flight training student. Ruben is attending the Yavapai College Associate of Applied Arts (AAS) degree program, Professional Pilot-Helicopters, with Guidance Aviation as the sole provider of … Continued
Reported on Military.comThe Post-9/11 GI Bill has evolved quite a bit over the last few years. Some changes have improved the benefit for veterans, while other – less popular — changes were made to pay for the improvements. The latest changes came on the first of August, mainly in the form of tuition and fee limits and unpopular reductions of … Continued
The new blog for Northern Arizona Veterans Upward bound is up and running at: http://nazvubonline.blogspot.com/ VUB’s mission is to prepare eligible college bound veterans for successful enrollment and completion of post-secondary education and that means all veterans! VUB offers resources for each phase of a veteran’s educational journey. VUB is connected to Yavapai College and services all … Continued
It’s not just the 300+ days of sunshine nor just the challenge of high altitude flight training that attracts our student pilots from all over the nation. Nor is it that we offer an incredible flight training program for U.S. Veterans using their Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits through the Yavapai College Professional Pilot Program. Those are all great reasons. There’s another reason. … Continued
We thought we’d share these. Photos courtesy of S. Palmer. Guidance Aviation provides high altitude helicopter and fixed wing flight training utilizing the newest aircraft and best equipment available. For more information, go to http://www.guidance.aero or http://www.guidancehelicopters.com
What are you doing on Monday, May 30th? “Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday that honors American servicemembers and is observed on the last Monday of May (May 30 in 2011). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. citizens who died while on military service.[1] First enacted to honor Union and Confederate … Continued