November 25, 2025 • 13 mins
Brian Thomas is joined by Chris Klug of the Cincinnati VA to talk about new outpatient clinics and a new eye center.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
It's eight thirty eight here fifty five KRCD Talk Station.
Please to welcome fifty five KRC Morning Show from the
Cincinni DA Chris Kluk also a veteran himself. He served
between oh three and oh seven in the US Army
one hundred and first Airborne. It was getting some interesting
stories from him. Was there for the Taddam Hussein trial,
but also involved in combat operations overseascrit It's a great yeah, here,
(00:25):
move that mic up there. You just stand right into that.
He's on four there, Sean, make sure you got number
four on. Anyhow, I can't thank you enough for your service.
And as I was talking with you about that, I mentioned,
since we're talking about the VA and the benefits you
have to offer there, and we're going to talk about
the new outpatient centers and the iclinic, which are great
development for the VA. But I said that something effectively,
(00:47):
I think I understand post traumatic stress disorder, or just
post traumatic stress as we'll like to call it. I
don't think it's a disorder. I think it's just a reality.
If you've got to get up every day at a
moment's notice and go around kicking indoors where there are
in many cases terrorists behind them waiting to start shooting
at you. And I've heard enough stories from men that
(01:07):
did this, you know, kicking indoors of Fallujah is what
I used to kind of call it, stories about guys
getting shot at with anti aircraft guns from underneath the
floor right when they walk in. And then you got
to do it again. Once you leave that place, clear
that place, You move down the road, do it again,
do it again, do it again, get up the next day,
do the same damn thing. The weight of that on
your melon has got to be overwhelming, the idea that
(01:28):
you have that much adrenaline flowing at all times. It's
just how do you go back to normal if you
can even call what we're living in this world normal.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I think that's the issue. And I didn't have the issue.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Like, while you're over there, going through that experience is
one thing, like you don't really think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's just your day to day life.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
But once you get home and not adrenaline stuffs, that's
where the PTSD kicks in and you start to think
about it, like all that type of stuff. And yeah,
mental health is the most important thing. And I think
talking about it is the most helpful thing. That's what's
he to me over the years. And the VA has
a phenomenal UH mental health program, and I encourage all
(02:06):
veterans to come in and just if you even need
somebody to talk to.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You don't have to go through the full program.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Just come in and talk to somebody if that's going
to help you or someone in your family exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And that's fundamentally really the reason I brought it up,
because you know, over the years, I've learned about all
the programs you have, and who knows better about that
type of scenario, the scenario the American veteran deals with
after service than the American veterans and the folks of
the VA.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, the VA has some like the best mental health
care program in the world because that's the majority of
our patients that we see, and so we've recruited the
best to do the best research and come up with
the best solutions to help our veterans.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And you do every single day. And I was so
so sad to learn that how many men did you
have in your in your was it platoon?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Uh? And our platoon I don't know the exact number,
but I would say it was roughly thirty five thirty.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Six guys in our platoon fastward to right now. Six
of them committed suicide. Six of them committed suicides. We
can't let that happen. You know, every veteran out there,
I'm sure has at least someone in their world who
has close connection with them, knows how they are, can
see these signs of perhaps mental stress and maybe steer
them in the right direction, get them signed up for
their VA benefits. D two to fourteen discharge is all
(03:19):
you're gonna need.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, just talk to them, Ask them if they need help,
Ask them if they want somebody to talk to you,
even if they don't want either go to the VA,
ask them if they'd like to.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Talk to you personally. Well, just let them. Let them
get whatever they need to off their chests.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And a shout out over to my friends at Patriots
Landing in northern Kentucky. It's the wood Shop. They make
these wonderful craft products, but they serve as exactly that
that lifeline for connection among the American veterans. They go,
they commiserate together. It gives them a safe space they
can talk about their trials and tribulations, what's on their
mind and it benefits everybody. Yeah, I know, Pete over there,
that's a great program. It is really an awesome program.
(03:54):
So Patriots Landing folks all right. Didn't need to take
you down that road right out of the gate, Chris,
but I thought it was really important to bring it up.
I know a lot of people struggle with depression and
sadness around the holidays to stating the Aubius. Now what
is going on the VA I hear you're in the
process of relocating the two outpatient clinics as well as
the eye center.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What's this all about? Yeah, the Eye.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Center is we're supposed to have a new opening that
is now slated for December twenty sixth of this year
at twenty ninety Florence Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio four five two
zero six. Now it's going to have optometrists to just
offer routine IE exams, preventing, preventative screening, glaucoma. Ophthalmologists can
(04:40):
diagnose and provide medical and surgical care for conditions like cataracts, glaucoma,
macular degeneration, and a lot more. That center is also
going to offer general optometry and optalmology, low vision and
traumatic brain injury services, to go into the mental health,
(05:01):
contact lenses, retina and cornea services, medical surgical glaucoma. I mean,
I've taken a tour of this facility. It's more than
doubled the footprint of the old one. They're gonna offer
a lot more and it's we're looking forward to this
place opening.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Are these vision services? Is this a new feature for
being a for signing up for VA benefits or have
you always done it? You just outgrew the demand the space.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, we've always offered it. We've just outgrown the space
because we recently, I would say over the past two
and a half years, our veteran population of the VA
has gone from forty three to close to fifty thousand people.
So veterans are recognizing the care we offer it the
VA and they're starting to come in.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I am so glad to just play a tiny little
part in that, Chris, I really am, because I listened
when I remember when Bob McDonald was running things. They
could keep appointments and people were they felt like they
were getting the backstab. You know, I served my country
and look at how I'm being treated boy, it's it's
just dramatically turned around.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, things have really changed in the VIDA over the
last I would say five to ten years. I mean
even for the Cincinnativia. In the last I would say,
if you haven't been to the Cincinnati v in the
last nine months, you should come out and check us
out because we have just revamped the whole va. It's
it's new everything. We're building a new primary care center
in there. It's just we've we've gone far and above
(06:22):
to try and create the best space for veterans to
feel the.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Most comfortable, giving them what they deserve. Yep, exactly. Chris
Klube will continue right after these brief words. Don't go away.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Fifty five KRC hey forty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
If you got krc DE talk station, hope you're having
a decent Monday big show schedule for tomorrow thanks to
Joe Strekker's on vacation this weekend. Thank you Sean McMahon
for filling in for We're gonna have tech Tuesday Tomorrow day.
I've had a Congressman Warren Davidson from the Hudson Institute
bring him acount talking about latest on energy policies built
the inside Scoop with Bright Bart News and the Daniel
(06:56):
Davis Deep Dive. Thank god for that lineup as they
segue into a long Thanksgiving week and best and happy
Thanksgiving to Chris Klug from the Sincinnti VA who's in studio,
talk about some updates and what's available there, and thank
you to all those folks at the CINCINNIVA serving the
American veterans and doing such a great job with it. Chris,
you had met, you were talking about the vision program,
(07:17):
lots of services. I want to double down on the
glaucoma thing because he's Brian Thomas glaucoma head of surgery
for that. It'll make you go blind. And do you
have high eye pressure right now? If you haven't seen
a doctor, do you know? The answer is no, you don't.
It's not something you can feel. Do you want to
go blind?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So this is great because a lot of people don't
take care of their vision. They just kind of let
it go. Yeah, something pesky could be lurking behind the scenes,
like glauclth a. Then, brother, so let's double down on
that and a freebie.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah the VA.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
If you, I would say the majority of veterans that
use our I center will qualify for free eyeglasses as well,
So come into business check it out. I mean, what's
the worst that could happen? You got to walk away
with a pair of free glasses. But also hearing aids,
that's something else. Hearing aids are also free through the
VIA as well. So if you're at home and you
know your husband or wife is spending seven thousand dollars
(08:09):
on hearing aids, check us out at the VA.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
See if you can't get them for free.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That's why you serve for that little bit of money.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
While you were there.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Getting all these extra benefits, so take advantage of them.
Pivoting back over to oh, telehealth. I asked you off
air about the mental health services that you offer at
the VA. Obviously very popular and thankfully so. But you
do telehealth with mental health?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, we telehealth since COVID has become extremely big through
the VA, and the majority of our veterans that see us,
a lot of them want to see like for mental health,
want to do telehealth. They don't want to come down
to Clifton, they don't want to find parking or whatever
the case is, so they opt to do it from
home and that's a big program we offer. So if
you don't want to leave the comfort of your home
(08:52):
and you want to talk to a mental health provider,
we can do it over the computer or over your
phone with you.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Can't check for glack hom over the phone though, I.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Can't do that. I have to come in in person
for that one. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Now, the other you'd mentioned focused on the ie center
and the new one obviously bigger, and it's at twenty
eight ninety Florence Avenue. What about the outpatient the other
outpatient clinics. What's the story on these?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, so we're getting too brand new standalone outpatient clinics.
The Hamilton VA Clinic is going to be new and
that they're building that now I've toured out.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
It's a beautiful facility.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That one's going to be at seventy two fifteen Gateway Avenue, Hamilton,
Ohio four five zero one one. It's kind of right
off Route four next to Trihalth and Bethesda. This this
location is going to offer primary care, mental health, optometry
as well pedietary physical therapy, lab services, nutrition, pharmacy, consultations, telehealth,
(09:51):
and then we're also going to expand the amount of
primary care providers we have at that location as well,
so we'll be able to serve even more veterans. You know,
I'm glad you have a nutrition program. I say what
you want to about our FK Junior. I think at
least he is bringing it to our attention the importance
of diet and nutrition and how much of an impact
it has on our overall health. I mean, if you
(10:12):
want to stay the hell away from a doctor, really
focus on what you're putting in your bodies, what it
boils down to anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, for sure, especially around this time.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You know, with New Year's coming up, everybody wants to
lose some weight and all that, you know, the worst
and yeah, but if that's something you're interested in doing
going into the new year, you know, you don't have
to buy all those apps and pay monthly fees. You
can just come into the VA speak with a nutritionist.
They'll create a meal plan, an exercise program for They'll
(10:41):
do all that for you for free.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's griesting to come talk to one of us. There's
a lot of people out in the world that are
charging for that service, a lot of money for that. Yeah,
I'm so good good nutrition as well. All right, now,
let's make it easy. There's a lot of veterans out
in the listening audience, and I'm God bless each and
every one of you, and I'm just honored to have
you among my listening audience. How how do you get
sign up for your VA benefits? It's pretty easy. But
(11:03):
there's also the Veteran Services Commissions that are in every
county that also will help to the extent you run
at any difficulties. But in the final analysis, you can
do it. It's pretty easy to do. Generally, it's super easy.
All we need is a copier your DD two D
D two fourteen. Just give us a call five one
three four seven, five six four nine nine uh, and
(11:23):
one of our three enrollment specialists.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We'll talk to you over the phone. They can enroll
you over the phone and get you signed up. Probably
takes less than thirty minutes to get signed up for
care less than thirty minutes. And they have some online
services as well, and those I understand can be a
little bit complicated, which is why I again mentioned the
various Veteran Services Commissions out there. I mean, I speak
for the Claremont County Veteran Services quite often they'll help
(11:46):
you with that process. They will look The Veteran County
Service offices are great Hamilon and Claremont Butler.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
They'll do a fantastic job.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I highly recommend if you want to sign up for
disability benefits or anything like that, contact one of your
local commissions and speak to them.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Right why, plenty of resources available for the American veteran
And again thanks to the Veteran Services Commissions and again
every one of the since Aniva, Chris Kluge, you're doing
a great job there. I know you've got your eye
out for your fellow veterans and you'll continue to do
more and more on behalf of the American veterans. And
as I've always I've learned you have a problem. If
you run into a challenge, they're there to solve the problem.
(12:25):
You must bring it to their attention. To do that,
it's like a dropping off a you know, a in
a complaint box. Make sure they know about it, and
I assure you they're going to work to fix whatever
problem you encounter.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, we will because we get We asked veterans to
rate us after their appointments and if there's something that
veterans are having an issue with We will work as
fast as we can to fix that issue. But currently
we're sitting in a ninety six percent satisfaction rate among
all the veterans that come in, so ninety six percent
of veterans think we're doing a pretty great job.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I let you walk right into that. That was intentional,
my friend, Chris Klub, Thanks for what you're doing, you
and your family. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving
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It's eight thirty eight here fifty five KRCD Talk Station.
Please to welcome fifty five KRC Morning Show from the
Cincinni DA Chris Kluk also a veteran himself. He served
between oh three and oh seven in the US Army
one hundred and first Airborne. It was getting some interesting
stories from him. Was there for the Taddam Hussein trial,
but also involved in combat operations overseascrit It's a great yeah, here,
(00:25):
move that mic up there. You just stand right into that.
He's on four there, Sean, make sure you got number
four on. Anyhow, I can't thank you enough for your service.
And as I was talking with you about that, I mentioned,
since we're talking about the VA and the benefits you
have to offer there, and we're going to talk about
the new outpatient centers and the iclinic, which are great
development for the VA. But I said that something effectively,
(00:47):
I think I understand post traumatic stress disorder, or just
post traumatic stress as we'll like to call it. I
don't think it's a disorder. I think it's just a reality.
If you've got to get up every day at a
moment's notice and go around kicking indoors where there are
in many cases terrorists behind them waiting to start shooting
at you. And I've heard enough stories from men that
(01:07):
did this, you know, kicking indoors of Fallujah is what
I used to kind of call it, stories about guys
getting shot at with anti aircraft guns from underneath the
floor right when they walk in. And then you got
to do it again. Once you leave that place, clear
that place, You move down the road, do it again,
do it again, do it again, get up the next day,
do the same damn thing. The weight of that on
your melon has got to be overwhelming, the idea that
(01:28):
you have that much adrenaline flowing at all times. It's
just how do you go back to normal if you
can even call what we're living in this world normal.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I think that's the issue. And I didn't have the issue.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Like, while you're over there, going through that experience is
one thing, like you don't really think about it.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's just your day to day life.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
But once you get home and not adrenaline stuffs, that's
where the PTSD kicks in and you start to think
about it, like all that type of stuff. And yeah,
mental health is the most important thing. And I think
talking about it is the most helpful thing. That's what's
he to me over the years. And the VA has
a phenomenal UH mental health program, and I encourage all
(02:06):
veterans to come in and just if you even need
somebody to talk to.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
You don't have to go through the full program.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Just come in and talk to somebody if that's going
to help you or someone in your family exactly.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And that's fundamentally really the reason I brought it up,
because you know, over the years, I've learned about all
the programs you have, and who knows better about that
type of scenario, the scenario the American veteran deals with
after service than the American veterans and the folks of
the VA.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, the VA has some like the best mental health
care program in the world because that's the majority of
our patients that we see, and so we've recruited the
best to do the best research and come up with
the best solutions to help our veterans.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And you do every single day. And I was so
so sad to learn that how many men did you
have in your in your was it platoon?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Uh? And our platoon I don't know the exact number,
but I would say it was roughly thirty five thirty.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Six guys in our platoon fastward to right now. Six
of them committed suicide. Six of them committed suicides. We
can't let that happen. You know, every veteran out there,
I'm sure has at least someone in their world who
has close connection with them, knows how they are, can
see these signs of perhaps mental stress and maybe steer
them in the right direction, get them signed up for
their VA benefits. D two to fourteen discharge is all
(03:19):
you're gonna need.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah, just talk to them, Ask them if they need help,
Ask them if they want somebody to talk to you,
even if they don't want either go to the VA,
ask them if they'd like to.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Talk to you personally. Well, just let them. Let them
get whatever they need to off their chests.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
And a shout out over to my friends at Patriots
Landing in northern Kentucky. It's the wood Shop. They make
these wonderful craft products, but they serve as exactly that
that lifeline for connection among the American veterans. They go,
they commiserate together. It gives them a safe space they
can talk about their trials and tribulations, what's on their
mind and it benefits everybody. Yeah, I know, Pete over there,
that's a great program. It is really an awesome program.
(03:54):
So Patriots Landing folks all right. Didn't need to take
you down that road right out of the gate, Chris,
but I thought it was really important to bring it up.
I know a lot of people struggle with depression and
sadness around the holidays to stating the Aubius. Now what
is going on the VA I hear you're in the
process of relocating the two outpatient clinics as well as
the eye center.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What's this all about? Yeah, the Eye.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Center is we're supposed to have a new opening that
is now slated for December twenty sixth of this year
at twenty ninety Florence Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio four five two
zero six. Now it's going to have optometrists to just
offer routine IE exams, preventing, preventative screening, glaucoma. Ophthalmologists can
(04:40):
diagnose and provide medical and surgical care for conditions like cataracts, glaucoma,
macular degeneration, and a lot more. That center is also
going to offer general optometry and optalmology, low vision and
traumatic brain injury services, to go into the mental health,
(05:01):
contact lenses, retina and cornea services, medical surgical glaucoma. I mean,
I've taken a tour of this facility. It's more than
doubled the footprint of the old one. They're gonna offer
a lot more and it's we're looking forward to this
place opening.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Are these vision services? Is this a new feature for
being a for signing up for VA benefits or have
you always done it? You just outgrew the demand the space.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, we've always offered it. We've just outgrown the space
because we recently, I would say over the past two
and a half years, our veteran population of the VA
has gone from forty three to close to fifty thousand people.
So veterans are recognizing the care we offer it the
VA and they're starting to come in.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I am so glad to just play a tiny little
part in that, Chris, I really am, because I listened
when I remember when Bob McDonald was running things. They
could keep appointments and people were they felt like they
were getting the backstab. You know, I served my country
and look at how I'm being treated boy, it's it's
just dramatically turned around.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, things have really changed in the VIDA over the
last I would say five to ten years. I mean
even for the Cincinnativia. In the last I would say,
if you haven't been to the Cincinnati v in the
last nine months, you should come out and check us
out because we have just revamped the whole va. It's
it's new everything. We're building a new primary care center
in there. It's just we've we've gone far and above
(06:22):
to try and create the best space for veterans to
feel the.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Most comfortable, giving them what they deserve. Yep, exactly. Chris
Klube will continue right after these brief words. Don't go away.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Fifty five KRC hey forty eight.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
If you got krc DE talk station, hope you're having
a decent Monday big show schedule for tomorrow thanks to
Joe Strekker's on vacation this weekend. Thank you Sean McMahon
for filling in for We're gonna have tech Tuesday Tomorrow day.
I've had a Congressman Warren Davidson from the Hudson Institute
bring him acount talking about latest on energy policies built
the inside Scoop with Bright Bart News and the Daniel
(06:56):
Davis Deep Dive. Thank god for that lineup as they
segue into a long Thanksgiving week and best and happy
Thanksgiving to Chris Klug from the Sincinnti VA who's in studio,
talk about some updates and what's available there, and thank
you to all those folks at the CINCINNIVA serving the
American veterans and doing such a great job with it. Chris,
you had met, you were talking about the vision program,
(07:17):
lots of services. I want to double down on the
glaucoma thing because he's Brian Thomas glaucoma head of surgery
for that. It'll make you go blind. And do you
have high eye pressure right now? If you haven't seen
a doctor, do you know? The answer is no, you don't.
It's not something you can feel. Do you want to
go blind?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So this is great because a lot of people don't
take care of their vision. They just kind of let
it go. Yeah, something pesky could be lurking behind the scenes,
like glauclth a. Then, brother, so let's double down on
that and a freebie.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah the VA.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
If you, I would say the majority of veterans that
use our I center will qualify for free eyeglasses as well,
So come into business check it out. I mean, what's
the worst that could happen? You got to walk away
with a pair of free glasses. But also hearing aids,
that's something else. Hearing aids are also free through the
VIA as well. So if you're at home and you
know your husband or wife is spending seven thousand dollars
(08:09):
on hearing aids, check us out at the VA.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
See if you can't get them for free.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
That's why you serve for that little bit of money.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
While you were there.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
Getting all these extra benefits, so take advantage of them.
Pivoting back over to oh, telehealth. I asked you off
air about the mental health services that you offer at
the VA. Obviously very popular and thankfully so. But you
do telehealth with mental health?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, we telehealth since COVID has become extremely big through
the VA, and the majority of our veterans that see us,
a lot of them want to see like for mental health,
want to do telehealth. They don't want to come down
to Clifton, they don't want to find parking or whatever
the case is, so they opt to do it from
home and that's a big program we offer. So if
you don't want to leave the comfort of your home
(08:52):
and you want to talk to a mental health provider,
we can do it over the computer or over your
phone with you.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Can't check for glack hom over the phone though, I.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Can't do that. I have to come in in person
for that one. All right.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Now, the other you'd mentioned focused on the ie center
and the new one obviously bigger, and it's at twenty
eight ninety Florence Avenue. What about the outpatient the other
outpatient clinics. What's the story on these?
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, so we're getting too brand new standalone outpatient clinics.
The Hamilton VA Clinic is going to be new and
that they're building that now I've toured out.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
It's a beautiful facility.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
That one's going to be at seventy two fifteen Gateway Avenue, Hamilton,
Ohio four five zero one one. It's kind of right
off Route four next to Trihalth and Bethesda. This this
location is going to offer primary care, mental health, optometry
as well pedietary physical therapy, lab services, nutrition, pharmacy, consultations, telehealth,
(09:51):
and then we're also going to expand the amount of
primary care providers we have at that location as well,
so we'll be able to serve even more veterans. You know,
I'm glad you have a nutrition program. I say what
you want to about our FK Junior. I think at
least he is bringing it to our attention the importance
of diet and nutrition and how much of an impact
it has on our overall health. I mean, if you
(10:12):
want to stay the hell away from a doctor, really
focus on what you're putting in your bodies, what it
boils down to anymore.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Yeah, for sure, especially around this time.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
You know, with New Year's coming up, everybody wants to
lose some weight and all that, you know, the worst
and yeah, but if that's something you're interested in doing
going into the new year, you know, you don't have
to buy all those apps and pay monthly fees. You
can just come into the VA speak with a nutritionist.
They'll create a meal plan, an exercise program for They'll
(10:41):
do all that for you for free.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
That's griesting to come talk to one of us. There's
a lot of people out in the world that are
charging for that service, a lot of money for that. Yeah,
I'm so good good nutrition as well. All right, now,
let's make it easy. There's a lot of veterans out
in the listening audience, and I'm God bless each and
every one of you, and I'm just honored to have
you among my listening audience. How how do you get
sign up for your VA benefits? It's pretty easy. But
(11:03):
there's also the Veteran Services Commissions that are in every
county that also will help to the extent you run
at any difficulties. But in the final analysis, you can
do it. It's pretty easy to do. Generally, it's super easy.
All we need is a copier your DD two D
D two fourteen. Just give us a call five one
three four seven, five six four nine nine uh, and
(11:23):
one of our three enrollment specialists.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
We'll talk to you over the phone. They can enroll
you over the phone and get you signed up. Probably
takes less than thirty minutes to get signed up for
care less than thirty minutes. And they have some online
services as well, and those I understand can be a
little bit complicated, which is why I again mentioned the
various Veteran Services Commissions out there. I mean, I speak
for the Claremont County Veteran Services quite often they'll help
(11:46):
you with that process. They will look The Veteran County
Service offices are great Hamilon and Claremont Butler.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
They'll do a fantastic job.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I highly recommend if you want to sign up for
disability benefits or anything like that, contact one of your
local commissions and speak to them.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Right why, plenty of resources available for the American veteran
And again thanks to the Veteran Services Commissions and again
every one of the since Aniva, Chris Kluge, you're doing
a great job there. I know you've got your eye
out for your fellow veterans and you'll continue to do
more and more on behalf of the American veterans. And
as I've always I've learned you have a problem. If
you run into a challenge, they're there to solve the problem.
(12:25):
You must bring it to their attention. To do that,
it's like a dropping off a you know, a in
a complaint box. Make sure they know about it, and
I assure you they're going to work to fix whatever
problem you encounter.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Yeah, we will because we get We asked veterans to
rate us after their appointments and if there's something that
veterans are having an issue with We will work as
fast as we can to fix that issue. But currently
we're sitting in a ninety six percent satisfaction rate among
all the veterans that come in, so ninety six percent
of veterans think we're doing a pretty great job.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I let you walk right into that. That was intentional,
my friend, Chris Klub, Thanks for what you're doing, you
and your family. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving
and the same thing to all the better all the
staff of the Cincinniva, Thanks you too. Thanks for having
us anytime, my friend. Anytime. Folks, you need to get
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(13:36):
of Joe Strecker's job for the day. Not that he's replaceable,
but if anybody's gonna behind the board, I'm glad Sean's there.
He'll be there tomorrow as well. Have a great day, folks.
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Speaker 3 (13:47):
Today's top headlines coming up at the top of the hour.
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