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SUMMARY:ATLVets Tactical Range Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Everybody Hates the VA. Almost Nobody Showed Up to Fix It.\n  Advancing The Line\, Atlanta · Tuesday\, October 13\, 2026 · Zack A. Knight\n\n  \n    \n    Brad Hennings\, Partner at CCK Law and former Veterans Law Judge\, in conversation at Advancing The Line\, Atlanta.\n  \n\n  On Tuesday\, October 13\, ATLVets hosted Brad Hennings\, Partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick (CCK Law)\, the largest veterans disability law firm in the country. Before CCK\, Brad was a Veterans Law Judge at the Board of Veterans' Appeals\, appointed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs with presidential approval. He signed more than 3\,000 decisions. He worked in the Board's Office of Quality Review. He clerked at the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. He spent years being the person who decides whether your claim lives or dies\, and then he switched sides to represent veterans at the BVA\, the Veterans Court\, and the Federal Circuit. \n\n  He came to Atlanta to sit in a room and answer questions for two hours. No pitch deck. No fee. Just a former judge telling veterans how the people deciding their appeals actually read them. \n\n  Twenty people showed up.\n\n  What I hear every week\n\n  "The VA denied me." "Nobody will help me with my claim." "I've been fighting this for three years." "I don't know who to trust." "The system is broken." \n\n  I hear it at every event\, in every DM\, in every parking lot after every meeting. The complaint is loud\, constant\, and mostly legitimate. The VA disability process is slow\, confusing\, and designed by people who were not thinking about you when they built it. Nobody at ATLVets is going to argue that point. \n\n  So where was everybody? \n\n  \n    \n    Plenty of open chairs. Every one of them was a veteran who told me the system is broken.\n  \n\n  The empty seats\n\n  Twenty. In a metro area where I cannot walk through a VFW\, a networking happy hour\, or my own inbox without hearing a VA horror story. Look at the second photo. Count the chairs. \n\n  Yes\, the venue moved the day before. Our usual room got bought out and we adapted\, the way we always have. I'll give a few people that excuse. Not most of them. \n\n  I'm not going to pretend the empty seats didn't bother me. They did. Not because I need a full room for my ego. Because every one of those seats was a veteran who has told me the system doesn't work\, and then passed on a direct line to one of the few people in America who has sat on both sides of it. \n\n  Think about what was on the table. A former Veterans Law Judge\, in person\, in Atlanta\, taking questions about the exact process you've been losing to. That is not a resource that comes around every month. Most veterans will go their entire lives without ever being in a room with someone who has signed a Board decision. \n\n  The people who were there got it. They asked their questions. They got real answers. They know things today that they didn't know yesterday\, and a few of them left with a path forward on a claim they'd given up on. \n\n  The people who stayed home are still waiting on a system they've already told me doesn't work. \n\n  A hand up\, not a handout\n\n  Here's what ATLVets is and isn't. We are a hand up\, not a handout. That is not a slogan on a banner. It is the deal. \n\n  Our side of the deal: we build the ladder. We find the experts\, book the room\, pour the drinks\, hold the door\, and put it on the calendar weeks in advance. We make it free. We make it in your city. We do the part you cannot do alone. \n\n  Your side of the deal: you have to reach for it. You have to leave the house on a Tuesday night. You have to walk into a room where you don't know everyone and ask a question out loud. You have to be willing to pull yourself up\, because a hand up only works if there's a hand reaching back. \n\n  Nobody is coming to your house to fix your claim. Nobody is going to read the regulations for you while you're on the couch. The veterans who win their benefits are the ones who learn the system\, get accredited help\, and keep showing up when it's inconvenient. That's not a hot take. That's the entire history of the appeals process. \n\n  You cannot complain about a door you refused to walk through.\n\n  What you missed\n\n  Brad spent years as the person deciding these appeals. Asked what he saw most from the judge's chair\, his answer was one word: gaps. Gaps in the evidence\, gaps in the story\, inconsistencies between what a veteran says now and what the record said then. His rule for anyone building a claim: make it easy for the adjudicator to say yes. Clean package\, consistent narrative\, short explanation of why this is connected to service and how it affects you today. \n\n  Every claim comes down to three things. Service connection\, which itself needs three elements: something happened or you were exposed in service\, you have a current disability\, and there is a link between the two. Then your rating\, which is how severe the symptoms are right now. Then your effective date\, which is when the benefits should have started. Most veterans lose on the link and the date\, not the diagnosis. \n\n  Do not assume the VA knows anything about you. Brad was blunt: the VA's systems are not neat and tidy\, and even compared to other federal agencies\, Social Security does a better job. If you have records\, send them in yourself. Lay out your story as if explaining it to a five-year-old\, be repetitive\, and stay concise. \n\n  If you get denied\, you have three lanes. A supplemental claim with new and relevant evidence\, which is the right move if the problem was missing records or a bad exam. A higher-level review\, same record\, more senior reviewer\, which is the move when they just got it wrong. Or the Board of Veterans' Appeals\, which is the move for complicated cases\, and if you are 75 or older you get advanced on the docket. The one rule that overrides all of it: act within one year of any decision. That keeps the claim alive and protects your back pay. \n\n  There is no such thing as finality in the VA system. Denied 25 years ago? The law has changed\, presumptions have been liberalized\, records have been found. File again. \n\n  VA math is real. Ninety plus ten does not equal one hundred. Getting from 90 to 100 usually takes another 40 to 50 percent of new disability\, or a secondary claim: knees that were service connected wrecking your back\, service-connected sleep apnea driving weight gain\, hearing loss aggravating something else. Secondary connection is one of the most under-filed paths in the system. \n\n  Before you hire anyone\, ask four questions. Are you VA-accredited\, which you can verify on the VA Office of General Counsel website. What is your fee\, because charging for an initial claim is illegal under federal law\, and legitimate representation on appeals runs 20 to 33 percent of back pay\, contingency only. How long have you done this and what have you handled. And can you take me all the way to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the Federal Circuit\, because switching representation at that stage can be disastrous. \n\n  On AI: use it to learn the basics\, do not use it to manufacture evidence. Brad's firm uses AI. The VA uses AI\, and it is issuing improper denials when nobody checks the output. If you paste your file into a public model and have it write a nexus letter your doctor signs without applying their own judgment\, you are the one who signed the form\, and when the VA calls it fraudulent\, the AI company will not be standing next to you. \n\n  And the one thing to do tomorrow: file an Intent to File. It takes five minutes and it locks your effective date\, which is what determines your back pay. Then educate yourself on the basics and figure out who in this space is reputable\, because there are plenty of quick-buck artists working the other side. \n\n  That was two hours. It was free. There is a lot more in the full conversation than fits here\, and the people in the room got all of it. \n\n  \n    If you're actually ready to get help\n    \n      Free case evaluation. CCK Law reviews VA disability appeals at no cost. cck-law.com or 800-544-9144.\n      Learn the system yourself. CCK has published more than 3\,000 free articles and videos on VA claims and appeals\, plus a VA disability calculator and a back pay calculator. Start with their blog and YouTube channel.\n      Do not pay anyone to file your initial claim. Companies charging veterans to file initial VA claims are operating illegally. Representatives must be VA-accredited. Ask before you sign anything.\n      Another chance to show up. Brad Hennings and the CCK team will be at the We CARE Vet Fair\, Cobb Civic Center\, October 22\, 2026. Go.\n    \n    Free Case Evaluation\n    Tactical Range Weekend\n  \n\n  Next up is the ATLVets Tactical Range Weekend\, Saturday and Sunday\, October 24 and 25. Train Saturday\, compete Sunday. Two days on a private range about an hour south of Atlanta with former Green Berets and Navy SEALs: pistol\, CQB\, long range\, and clays. Everything is provided; you bring nothing but yourself. It is also a fundraiser\, so if your company wants a team event with a purpose\, this is it. If a free evening with a former judge couldn't get you off the couch\, maybe a rifle will. Register at atlvets.org/tactical-range-weekend-2026. \n\n  Before that\, the Leadership Institute kickoff is Friday\, October 23\, 8 to 9 AM at Brash Coffee Roasters: the men's program and Beyond the Uniform for women veterans and family members\, both free\, both 12-week cohorts. And the ATLVets Soirée is Saturday\, November 21 at Hotel 12 Midtown. Free\, spouses welcome\, sold out at 400 last year. Register early. \n\n  Advancing The Line\, Atlanta meets the second Tuesday of every month. Seats are limited\, and so is patience for the same complaint from the same people who never show. \n\n  Advance the line. It doesn't move on its own.
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SUMMARY:2026 Soiree
DESCRIPTION:Everybody Hates the VA. Almost Nobody Showed Up to Fix It.\n  Advancing The Line\, Atlanta · Tuesday\, October 13\, 2026 · Zack A. Knight\n\n  \n    \n    Brad Hennings\, Partner at CCK Law and former Veterans Law Judge\, in conversation at Advancing The Line\, Atlanta.\n  \n\n  On Tuesday\, October 13\, ATLVets hosted Brad Hennings\, Partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick (CCK Law)\, the largest veterans disability law firm in the country. Before CCK\, Brad was a Veterans Law Judge at the Board of Veterans' Appeals\, appointed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs with presidential approval. He signed more than 3\,000 decisions. He worked in the Board's Office of Quality Review. He clerked at the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. He spent years being the person who decides whether your claim lives or dies\, and then he switched sides to represent veterans at the BVA\, the Veterans Court\, and the Federal Circuit. \n\n  He came to Atlanta to sit in a room and answer questions for two hours. No pitch deck. No fee. Just a former judge telling veterans how the people deciding their appeals actually read them. \n\n  Twenty people showed up.\n\n  What I hear every week\n\n  "The VA denied me." "Nobody will help me with my claim." "I've been fighting this for three years." "I don't know who to trust." "The system is broken." \n\n  I hear it at every event\, in every DM\, in every parking lot after every meeting. The complaint is loud\, constant\, and mostly legitimate. The VA disability process is slow\, confusing\, and designed by people who were not thinking about you when they built it. Nobody at ATLVets is going to argue that point. \n\n  So where was everybody? \n\n  \n    \n    Plenty of open chairs. Every one of them was a veteran who told me the system is broken.\n  \n\n  The empty seats\n\n  Twenty. In a metro area where I cannot walk through a VFW\, a networking happy hour\, or my own inbox without hearing a VA horror story. Look at the second photo. Count the chairs. \n\n  Yes\, the venue moved the day before. Our usual room got bought out and we adapted\, the way we always have. I'll give a few people that excuse. Not most of them. \n\n  I'm not going to pretend the empty seats didn't bother me. They did. Not because I need a full room for my ego. Because every one of those seats was a veteran who has told me the system doesn't work\, and then passed on a direct line to one of the few people in America who has sat on both sides of it. \n\n  Think about what was on the table. A former Veterans Law Judge\, in person\, in Atlanta\, taking questions about the exact process you've been losing to. That is not a resource that comes around every month. Most veterans will go their entire lives without ever being in a room with someone who has signed a Board decision. \n\n  The people who were there got it. They asked their questions. They got real answers. They know things today that they didn't know yesterday\, and a few of them left with a path forward on a claim they'd given up on. \n\n  The people who stayed home are still waiting on a system they've already told me doesn't work. \n\n  A hand up\, not a handout\n\n  Here's what ATLVets is and isn't. We are a hand up\, not a handout. That is not a slogan on a banner. It is the deal. \n\n  Our side of the deal: we build the ladder. We find the experts\, book the room\, pour the drinks\, hold the door\, and put it on the calendar weeks in advance. We make it free. We make it in your city. We do the part you cannot do alone. \n\n  Your side of the deal: you have to reach for it. You have to leave the house on a Tuesday night. You have to walk into a room where you don't know everyone and ask a question out loud. You have to be willing to pull yourself up\, because a hand up only works if there's a hand reaching back. \n\n  Nobody is coming to your house to fix your claim. Nobody is going to read the regulations for you while you're on the couch. The veterans who win their benefits are the ones who learn the system\, get accredited help\, and keep showing up when it's inconvenient. That's not a hot take. That's the entire history of the appeals process. \n\n  You cannot complain about a door you refused to walk through.\n\n  What you missed\n\n  Brad spent years as the person deciding these appeals. Asked what he saw most from the judge's chair\, his answer was one word: gaps. Gaps in the evidence\, gaps in the story\, inconsistencies between what a veteran says now and what the record said then. His rule for anyone building a claim: make it easy for the adjudicator to say yes. Clean package\, consistent narrative\, short explanation of why this is connected to service and how it affects you today. \n\n  Every claim comes down to three things. Service connection\, which itself needs three elements: something happened or you were exposed in service\, you have a current disability\, and there is a link between the two. Then your rating\, which is how severe the symptoms are right now. Then your effective date\, which is when the benefits should have started. Most veterans lose on the link and the date\, not the diagnosis. \n\n  Do not assume the VA knows anything about you. Brad was blunt: the VA's systems are not neat and tidy\, and even compared to other federal agencies\, Social Security does a better job. If you have records\, send them in yourself. Lay out your story as if explaining it to a five-year-old\, be repetitive\, and stay concise. \n\n  If you get denied\, you have three lanes. A supplemental claim with new and relevant evidence\, which is the right move if the problem was missing records or a bad exam. A higher-level review\, same record\, more senior reviewer\, which is the move when they just got it wrong. Or the Board of Veterans' Appeals\, which is the move for complicated cases\, and if you are 75 or older you get advanced on the docket. The one rule that overrides all of it: act within one year of any decision. That keeps the claim alive and protects your back pay. \n\n  There is no such thing as finality in the VA system. Denied 25 years ago? The law has changed\, presumptions have been liberalized\, records have been found. File again. \n\n  VA math is real. Ninety plus ten does not equal one hundred. Getting from 90 to 100 usually takes another 40 to 50 percent of new disability\, or a secondary claim: knees that were service connected wrecking your back\, service-connected sleep apnea driving weight gain\, hearing loss aggravating something else. Secondary connection is one of the most under-filed paths in the system. \n\n  Before you hire anyone\, ask four questions. Are you VA-accredited\, which you can verify on the VA Office of General Counsel website. What is your fee\, because charging for an initial claim is illegal under federal law\, and legitimate representation on appeals runs 20 to 33 percent of back pay\, contingency only. How long have you done this and what have you handled. And can you take me all the way to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the Federal Circuit\, because switching representation at that stage can be disastrous. \n\n  On AI: use it to learn the basics\, do not use it to manufacture evidence. Brad's firm uses AI. The VA uses AI\, and it is issuing improper denials when nobody checks the output. If you paste your file into a public model and have it write a nexus letter your doctor signs without applying their own judgment\, you are the one who signed the form\, and when the VA calls it fraudulent\, the AI company will not be standing next to you. \n\n  And the one thing to do tomorrow: file an Intent to File. It takes five minutes and it locks your effective date\, which is what determines your back pay. Then educate yourself on the basics and figure out who in this space is reputable\, because there are plenty of quick-buck artists working the other side. \n\n  That was two hours. It was free. There is a lot more in the full conversation than fits here\, and the people in the room got all of it. \n\n  \n    If you're actually ready to get help\n    \n      Free case evaluation. CCK Law reviews VA disability appeals at no cost. cck-law.com or 800-544-9144.\n      Learn the system yourself. CCK has published more than 3\,000 free articles and videos on VA claims and appeals\, plus a VA disability calculator and a back pay calculator. Start with their blog and YouTube channel.\n      Do not pay anyone to file your initial claim. Companies charging veterans to file initial VA claims are operating illegally. Representatives must be VA-accredited. Ask before you sign anything.\n      Another chance to show up. Brad Hennings and the CCK team will be at the We CARE Vet Fair\, Cobb Civic Center\, October 22\, 2026. Go.\n    \n    Free Case Evaluation\n    Tactical Range Weekend\n  \n\n  Next up is the ATLVets Tactical Range Weekend\, Saturday and Sunday\, October 24 and 25. Train Saturday\, compete Sunday. Two days on a private range about an hour south of Atlanta with former Green Berets and Navy SEALs: pistol\, CQB\, long range\, and clays. Everything is provided; you bring nothing but yourself. It is also a fundraiser\, so if your company wants a team event with a purpose\, this is it. If a free evening with a former judge couldn't get you off the couch\, maybe a rifle will. Register at atlvets.org/tactical-range-weekend-2026. \n\n  Before that\, the Leadership Institute kickoff is Friday\, October 23\, 8 to 9 AM at Brash Coffee Roasters: the men's program and Beyond the Uniform for women veterans and family members\, both free\, both 12-week cohorts. And the ATLVets Soirée is Saturday\, November 21 at Hotel 12 Midtown. Free\, spouses welcome\, sold out at 400 last year. Register early. \n\n  Advancing The Line\, Atlanta meets the second Tuesday of every month. Seats are limited\, and so is patience for the same complaint from the same people who never show. \n\n  Advance the line. It doesn't move on its own.
URL:https://atlvets.org/events/2026-soiree/
LOCATION:Twelve Midtown\, Autograph Collection\, 361 17th St NW\, Atlanta\, Georgia\, 30363\, United States
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SUMMARY:VETLANTA Q4 Summit at Dobbins AFB
DESCRIPTION:Everybody Hates the VA. Almost Nobody Showed Up to Fix It.\n  Advancing The Line\, Atlanta · Tuesday\, October 13\, 2026 · Zack A. Knight\n\n  \n    \n    Brad Hennings\, Partner at CCK Law and former Veterans Law Judge\, in conversation at Advancing The Line\, Atlanta.\n  \n\n  On Tuesday\, October 13\, ATLVets hosted Brad Hennings\, Partner at Chisholm Chisholm & Kilpatrick (CCK Law)\, the largest veterans disability law firm in the country. Before CCK\, Brad was a Veterans Law Judge at the Board of Veterans' Appeals\, appointed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs with presidential approval. He signed more than 3\,000 decisions. He worked in the Board's Office of Quality Review. He clerked at the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. He spent years being the person who decides whether your claim lives or dies\, and then he switched sides to represent veterans at the BVA\, the Veterans Court\, and the Federal Circuit. \n\n  He came to Atlanta to sit in a room and answer questions for two hours. No pitch deck. No fee. Just a former judge telling veterans how the people deciding their appeals actually read them. \n\n  Twenty people showed up.\n\n  What I hear every week\n\n  "The VA denied me." "Nobody will help me with my claim." "I've been fighting this for three years." "I don't know who to trust." "The system is broken." \n\n  I hear it at every event\, in every DM\, in every parking lot after every meeting. The complaint is loud\, constant\, and mostly legitimate. The VA disability process is slow\, confusing\, and designed by people who were not thinking about you when they built it. Nobody at ATLVets is going to argue that point. \n\n  So where was everybody? \n\n  \n    \n    Plenty of open chairs. Every one of them was a veteran who told me the system is broken.\n  \n\n  The empty seats\n\n  Twenty. In a metro area where I cannot walk through a VFW\, a networking happy hour\, or my own inbox without hearing a VA horror story. Look at the second photo. Count the chairs. \n\n  Yes\, the venue moved the day before. Our usual room got bought out and we adapted\, the way we always have. I'll give a few people that excuse. Not most of them. \n\n  I'm not going to pretend the empty seats didn't bother me. They did. Not because I need a full room for my ego. Because every one of those seats was a veteran who has told me the system doesn't work\, and then passed on a direct line to one of the few people in America who has sat on both sides of it. \n\n  Think about what was on the table. A former Veterans Law Judge\, in person\, in Atlanta\, taking questions about the exact process you've been losing to. That is not a resource that comes around every month. Most veterans will go their entire lives without ever being in a room with someone who has signed a Board decision. \n\n  The people who were there got it. They asked their questions. They got real answers. They know things today that they didn't know yesterday\, and a few of them left with a path forward on a claim they'd given up on. \n\n  The people who stayed home are still waiting on a system they've already told me doesn't work. \n\n  A hand up\, not a handout\n\n  Here's what ATLVets is and isn't. We are a hand up\, not a handout. That is not a slogan on a banner. It is the deal. \n\n  Our side of the deal: we build the ladder. We find the experts\, book the room\, pour the drinks\, hold the door\, and put it on the calendar weeks in advance. We make it free. We make it in your city. We do the part you cannot do alone. \n\n  Your side of the deal: you have to reach for it. You have to leave the house on a Tuesday night. You have to walk into a room where you don't know everyone and ask a question out loud. You have to be willing to pull yourself up\, because a hand up only works if there's a hand reaching back. \n\n  Nobody is coming to your house to fix your claim. Nobody is going to read the regulations for you while you're on the couch. The veterans who win their benefits are the ones who learn the system\, get accredited help\, and keep showing up when it's inconvenient. That's not a hot take. That's the entire history of the appeals process. \n\n  You cannot complain about a door you refused to walk through.\n\n  What you missed\n\n  Brad spent years as the person deciding these appeals. Asked what he saw most from the judge's chair\, his answer was one word: gaps. Gaps in the evidence\, gaps in the story\, inconsistencies between what a veteran says now and what the record said then. His rule for anyone building a claim: make it easy for the adjudicator to say yes. Clean package\, consistent narrative\, short explanation of why this is connected to service and how it affects you today. \n\n  Every claim comes down to three things. Service connection\, which itself needs three elements: something happened or you were exposed in service\, you have a current disability\, and there is a link between the two. Then your rating\, which is how severe the symptoms are right now. Then your effective date\, which is when the benefits should have started. Most veterans lose on the link and the date\, not the diagnosis. \n\n  Do not assume the VA knows anything about you. Brad was blunt: the VA's systems are not neat and tidy\, and even compared to other federal agencies\, Social Security does a better job. If you have records\, send them in yourself. Lay out your story as if explaining it to a five-year-old\, be repetitive\, and stay concise. \n\n  If you get denied\, you have three lanes. A supplemental claim with new and relevant evidence\, which is the right move if the problem was missing records or a bad exam. A higher-level review\, same record\, more senior reviewer\, which is the move when they just got it wrong. Or the Board of Veterans' Appeals\, which is the move for complicated cases\, and if you are 75 or older you get advanced on the docket. The one rule that overrides all of it: act within one year of any decision. That keeps the claim alive and protects your back pay. \n\n  There is no such thing as finality in the VA system. Denied 25 years ago? The law has changed\, presumptions have been liberalized\, records have been found. File again. \n\n  VA math is real. Ninety plus ten does not equal one hundred. Getting from 90 to 100 usually takes another 40 to 50 percent of new disability\, or a secondary claim: knees that were service connected wrecking your back\, service-connected sleep apnea driving weight gain\, hearing loss aggravating something else. Secondary connection is one of the most under-filed paths in the system. \n\n  Before you hire anyone\, ask four questions. Are you VA-accredited\, which you can verify on the VA Office of General Counsel website. What is your fee\, because charging for an initial claim is illegal under federal law\, and legitimate representation on appeals runs 20 to 33 percent of back pay\, contingency only. How long have you done this and what have you handled. And can you take me all the way to the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims and the Federal Circuit\, because switching representation at that stage can be disastrous. \n\n  On AI: use it to learn the basics\, do not use it to manufacture evidence. Brad's firm uses AI. The VA uses AI\, and it is issuing improper denials when nobody checks the output. If you paste your file into a public model and have it write a nexus letter your doctor signs without applying their own judgment\, you are the one who signed the form\, and when the VA calls it fraudulent\, the AI company will not be standing next to you. \n\n  And the one thing to do tomorrow: file an Intent to File. It takes five minutes and it locks your effective date\, which is what determines your back pay. Then educate yourself on the basics and figure out who in this space is reputable\, because there are plenty of quick-buck artists working the other side. \n\n  That was two hours. It was free. There is a lot more in the full conversation than fits here\, and the people in the room got all of it. \n\n  \n    If you're actually ready to get help\n    \n      Free case evaluation. CCK Law reviews VA disability appeals at no cost. cck-law.com or 800-544-9144.\n      Learn the system yourself. CCK has published more than 3\,000 free articles and videos on VA claims and appeals\, plus a VA disability calculator and a back pay calculator. Start with their blog and YouTube channel.\n      Do not pay anyone to file your initial claim. Companies charging veterans to file initial VA claims are operating illegally. Representatives must be VA-accredited. Ask before you sign anything.\n      Another chance to show up. Brad Hennings and the CCK team will be at the We CARE Vet Fair\, Cobb Civic Center\, October 22\, 2026. Go.\n    \n    Free Case Evaluation\n    Tactical Range Weekend\n  \n\n  Next up is the ATLVets Tactical Range Weekend\, Saturday and Sunday\, October 24 and 25. Train Saturday\, compete Sunday. Two days on a private range about an hour south of Atlanta with former Green Berets and Navy SEALs: pistol\, CQB\, long range\, and clays. Everything is provided; you bring nothing but yourself. It is also a fundraiser\, so if your company wants a team event with a purpose\, this is it. If a free evening with a former judge couldn't get you off the couch\, maybe a rifle will. Register at atlvets.org/tactical-range-weekend-2026. \n\n  Before that\, the Leadership Institute kickoff is Friday\, October 23\, 8 to 9 AM at Brash Coffee Roasters: the men's program and Beyond the Uniform for women veterans and family members\, both free\, both 12-week cohorts. And the ATLVets Soirée is Saturday\, November 21 at Hotel 12 Midtown. Free\, spouses welcome\, sold out at 400 last year. Register early. \n\n  Advancing The Line\, Atlanta meets the second Tuesday of every month. Seats are limited\, and so is patience for the same complaint from the same people who never show. \n\n  Advance the line. It doesn't move on its own.
URL:https://atlvets.org/events/vetlanta-q4-summit-at-dobbins-afb/
LOCATION:College Football Hall of Fame\, 250 Marietta St NW\, Atlanta\, Georgia\, 30313\, United States
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