Veterans Coffee
1st Wednesday of each Month 0900
Upcoming Speakers
02 Oct 2024
Michael Badger
The Buffalo Soldier:
Myth and Fact
Michael Badger is a Greenville native and current Trotwood resident who will provide details of the U.S. Army Buffalo Soldiers which was activated in 1866 and continues on through the Korean War.
Expanded Breakfast will be served courtesy of the Daughters of the American Revolution
06 Nov 2024
Major General Deborah Ashenhurst
37 Years of Service in the US Army and National Guard and Still Serving
Maj. Gen. Deborah Ashenhurst (U.S. Army, retired) was appointed by Governor Mike DeWine as the Director of the Ohio Department of Veterans Services on Jan. 14, 2019.
Ashenhurst retired from the U.S. Army and the National Guard in October 2015 after more than 37 years of service. In that time, she served at all levels of command.
In 2011, she was appointed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to the cabinet-level position of Adjutant General of the State of Ohio, commanding the 17,000 service members of the Ohio National Guard, the Ohio Naval Militia and the Ohio Military Reserve. She served as Adjutant General until January of 2015. Her career culminated by serving as a Special Assistant to the Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau in Washington, D.C.