Abstract

Unlike any government agency the Veteran Affairs (VA), has been known and called many names and has countless positions within the Department of Veteran Affairs and its three administrations regarding the mental, physical, safety and wellbeing of Vets and their families, regardless of whether they are alive or deceased because the VA also takes care of the Vets and their families funeral services. Besides those aspects, it’s impossible to give the responsibilities of the VA as a whole any brevity or even trying to expand on it verbally because the VA and its entirety are always changing. The VA and its administrations CARES comes from the VA’s core values of I CARE. According to the VA, their mission comes from fulfilling former President Lincoln’s promise of “To care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan “by serving and honoring the men and women who are America’s Veterans [1]. To briefly state, this basically means that the VA’s guiding principles are how all VA employees execute their duties to Veterans, plus their caregivers, survivors and families. The VA’s acronym of I CARE stands for I is for integrity, C is for commitment, A is for advocacy, R is for respect and E is for excellence. When defining I CARE it just means that VA employees care about service members, about their VA colleagues, making choices that involve basically the toughest of decisions instead of making the easier of wrong ones and performing their VA duties to the best of their abilities. Basically this paper, will speak to how the VA as an entity and its three administrations execute the VA’s I CARE values throughout their duties, sacrifices and time as the Department of Veteran Affairs workforce. Approach: To express what the Veteran Affairs is, its history, its many titles and what it means to be employed by any part of the VA would be detailed by visiting VA related websites and utilizing parts of its labor force periodical, as well as a brief inaction interview with both a Vet and staff member that said that even though you are a service member, working for any part of the VA is a learning experience that takes time. Plus, like him no matter how long you have worked for the VA, everyday is a day of learning something new. Findings: The results will tell that not only the VA has a history to tell, but the fellow employees of this government agency network do too, which varies by the governmental department of the Department of Veteran Affairs that they work for.