Julie Cohen

Nov 10, 2024 | belmontvoice.org | Julie Cohen

The world marked many pivotal milestones in 1924, including the inaugural Winter Olympics and the first successful around-the-world flight. Closer to home, a small group of Belmont veterans created an institution that is also marking its centennial: the Waverley VFW Post 1272. “One hundred years is a big milestone,” said Viktoria Haase, president of the Belmont Historical Society, in a May 2024 video presentation about the post’s anniversary.

Sep 3, 2024 | belmontvoice.org | Julie Cohen

Saying “Thank you,” may be a perfunctory, reflexive act in our everyday lives, but at the recent Belmont Purple Heart ceremony, those two words were spoken with deep and heartfelt meaning for the sacrifices made by town veterans. About 50 or so people gathered last week at the Belmont Veterans Memorial to pay tribute to service members from Belmont who received the honor as well as to the Gold Star Families left behind.

May 1, 2023 | insights.sei.cmu.edu | Bill Nichols |Julie Cohen |Vanessa Jackson |Matthew Heckathorn

As the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) commander, you are told that intelligence has discovered that an adversary has unexpected capabilities. Therefore, you need to reprioritize capabilities. You inform the program manager (PM) for your advanced aircraft platform that the lower priority capability for the whiz-bang software for sensor fusion that was on the roadmap 18 months from now will need to become the top priority and be delivered in the next six months.