SPARTANBURG, SC (August 30, 2022) – The Spartanburg County Veterans’ Affairs Office, in partnership with the South Carolina Department of Veterans’ Affairs (SCDVA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to join the statewide Veterans Network Operational Platform, known as “Combined Arms.”

Spartanburg County will be the first county in the state to agree to participate in this initiative. "We believe the platform will help to improve the quality of services provided to veterans in Spartanburg County and in South Carolina as a whole," says Brent Cobb, the Director of County Veterans' Affairs in Spartanburg County. "It's our pleasure as Spartanburg County and the Spartanburg County Veterans' Affairs Office to continue to develop these partnerships with the South Carolina Department of Veterans' Affairs, and the VA as a whole to advocate for our Veterans and our Veteran Service Organizations, because without these partnerships we cannot provide the additional resources to help our Veterans, their orphans and their widows, and we're just privileged to be the first county in the state to do that."

"The key to this is that Veterans thrive," says David Rozelle, Director of Operations for SCDVA. "A lot of non-profit and organizational effort goes into those [Veterans] that we call misfiring, those Veterans that are suffering, those Veterans that really need a lot of help. What we need to do is find upstream methods to help them."

WATCH the full MOU signing event by clicking the photo below.