Veterans

OGDEN — The Hiring Our Heroes Job Fair is looking for businesses with job vacancies looking to hire service members, veterans and military spouses.

OGDEN — When many Vietnam veterans returned from war, they were mocked and alienated by their fellow Americans, but one man is doing his best to make sure they finally have a place they can call home.

OGDEN — Gregory Rueckert will be leaving Weber County Jail for the George E. Wahlen Veteran Affairs Hospital in Salt Lake City.

LONDON — Britain’s Prince Harry is returning to the United States — but this time he’s skipping Las Vegas.

The 28-year-old prince will travel to the U.S. East Coast as well as Denver and Colorado Springs, Colorado, to support veterans’ charities and get in a bit of polo.

Harry, a longtime supporter of charities that rehabilitate war veterans, will attend several events at the 2013 Warrior Games, a competition in which veteran athletes from both Britain and the United States take part.

Josh Hansen sat across the kitchen table from his 6-year-old son. His blue eyes shifted from his wife preparing dinner to the boy coloring a page with a red marker. He smiled and then chuckled.

Hansen doesn’t have to worry about improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers or small-arms ambushes anymore. He’s as far away from the dangers of war as he could possibly be inside his home in Woods Cross.

The 41-year-old is happy with his current, peaceful life. With the exception of a memorial tattoo of a helmet, rifle and boots on his left arm, there is little to indicate a soldiering past.

SALT LAKE CITY — A bill by Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clinton, allowing veterans to gain college credit for skills learned in the military is headed to the governor’s desk.

HB 254 passed the Senate unanimously Friday.

Ray said the bill ensures that credits granted to a veteran for service or skills attained in the military are transferable from one Utah school to another.

He praised Weber State University as being one of the leaders in the state in dealing with the issue.