Veterans Day: These East Texas organizations offer vets a helping hand

Throughout East Texas, numerous organizations and agencies serve veterans by providing mental health services, employment assistance, education and job training, transportation, peer support groups and more. Here’s a list of some organizations that serve veterans, information about each organization and how veterans can contact them. Veterans service officers Texas counties have veterans service officers who help vets enroll in benefits, file disability claims, obtain information about education and loans, file appeals with the Department of Veterans Affairs and more. In Smith County, Veterans Service Officer Michael Roark offices at CampV, 3212 W. Front St. His office is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and is closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch. His phone number is (903) 590-2950. In Gregg County, veterans service officer Kevin Marshall offices at 100 E. Methvin St., Suite 157, in the Gregg County Parking Facility in downtown Longview.

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