Minot Vets for Vets

12/23/2025

-Yoda

12/23/2025

Just a friendly message to help you relax...

Follow these steps...

-Unclench your jaw

-Drop your tongue from the roof of your mouth

-Close your eyes and inhale for 5 seconds slowly

-Hold it for 5 seconds

-Exhale for 5 seconds

Relax. Be present. You're safe. You're loved. You mean something, and your story isn't over.

Much Love, Minot

-Roddy

12/22/2025

🎉HOLIDAY HOURS UPDATE🎉

Minot Vets for Vets will be closed the 24th-26th to celebrate the holidays

This Christmas season, we pause to give thanks for the men and women who have worn the uniform, and those who still do. Your service, sacrifice, and quiet strength are not forgotten.

We also want to hold space for those who are deployed right now, spending this season far from home, family, and familiar comforts. That kind of distance hurts. I’ve been there. Please know that you are seen, you are appreciated, and you are not alone.

To our veterans who may be carrying heavy memories, missing brothers and sisters, or struggling through this time of year, your story still matters. Your mission isn’t over yet. There is still purpose ahead, and there are people walking this road with you.

From all of us at Minot Vets for Vets, we wish you peace, warmth, and moments of connection this holiday season. If today is joyful, we celebrate with you. If today is hard, we stand with you.

You matter...
No one fights alone...

-Roddy

12/22/2025

12/22/2025

This Christmas season, we pause to give thanks for our veterans and our active-duty service members, those who have worn the uniform, and those who still do.

We want to give special recognition to those who are currently deployed, far from home, far from their families, their traditions, and the simple comforts that make this season feel whole. Being away during the holidays is more than just missing a meal or a tree, it’s missing moments that can never be replaced. It’s hard. It’s lonely. And it’s something many will never truly understand unless they’ve lived it.

I’ve been there. I know what it feels like to celebrate Christmas in a place that doesn’t feel like home, carrying the weight of duty while your heart is somewhere else. To those serving right now: you are not forgotten. You are thought of. You matter more than words can express.

To the families waiting back home, your strength, patience, and sacrifice do not go unseen. You serve too.

This season, may we slow down, hold our loved ones a little tighter, and remember those who can’t be with theirs right now. From all of us, thank you for your service, your sacrifice, and your courage.

You are never alone. We stand with you, today and always.

No One Fights Alone...

-Roddy

12/19/2025

💥💥Cards for Courage is now a year-round initiative by Minot Vets for Vets built on a simple truth: no one in uniform, no veteran, and no military family should ever feel unseen or forgotten 💥💥

Every day, our deployed service members carry the weight of distance, danger, and responsibility. Their families carry the quiet strain at home. Our veterans carry experiences that don’t end when the uniform comes off. Much of that burden is invisible, and too often, it is carried alone.

Cards for Courage creates a bridge between our community and those who serve it. Through handwritten messages of encouragement, gratitude, and solidarity, everyday people are given the chance to pause, reflect, and acknowledge the realities of military life. These cards are not about grand gestures. They are about human connection. One person taking time to say, you matter.

This initiative is also about awareness. Awareness that service does not stop at deployment timelines. Awareness that resilience is often built quietly. Awareness that support does not always need to be complicated to be meaningful.

A single card cannot remove hardship, but it can interrupt isolation. It can remind someone on the other side of the world, or across town, that their service is recognized and their sacrifices are honored. Over time, thousands of small moments of connection create something powerful: a culture that refuses to look away.

Cards for Courage runs all year because service, sacrifice, and the need for connection do not operate on a schedule.

This is how a community stands watch together.

Much Love, Minot

-Roddy

12/17/2025

LADIES!!

Come on down to Minot Vets for Vets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 1730hrs for our Women's Meeting!

Meet likeminded ladies who have served or are still serving!

You're not alone. . . I promise

Not therapy... Not a kumbaya circle... Just real women, real topics, & real relationships

We look forward to seeing you there!

12/15/2025

Coming SOON!!!!

Join Minot Vets for Vets new automotive workshop, The Motor Pool!!

From basic oil changes to rebuilding motors!

For veterans, active duty, and their families

Dates TBD . . . Soon

Call or DM with any questions

Much Love, Minot

12/13/2025

ATTN WARFIGHTERS:

Weekend Safety Brief

You’ve already survived deployments, TDYs, bad chow, worse leadership, and that one buddy who never secured the vehicle. This weekend doesn’t need to be the thing that takes you out.

Hydrate like it’s a mission. Sleep like you earned it. If alcohol is involved, remember: pace yourself, have a plan, and don’t try to reenact your 20-year-old self. That guy had knees, optimism, and fewer responsibilities.

Check your six. That includes your friends, your family, and your own headspace. If things get heavy, don’t ruck it alone. Reach out. Text someone. Call someone. Sit with someone. Even warriors need resupply points.

Most important part of the brief: Stay in the fight.
Not the loud, dramatic kind. The quiet one. The daily one. The “I showed up even when it was hard” kind.

You matter. Full stop.
Your story matters. It’s not finished, and it damn sure isn’t meant to stay locked in your rucksack forever. Someone out there needs to hear it, even if you don’t know who yet.

So this weekend:

Be smart

Be safe

Be kind to yourself

And don’t do anything that’ll make Monday’s after-action report awkward

We need you here. We’re better with you in the formation.

As you were

Much Love,
-Roddy

12/10/2025

Cards for Courage is still going on!!

Swing by the office and grab your Christmas Card today while supplies last!!

I'll have the coffee going for you...

Much Love, Minot
-Roddy

12/10/2025

PERFECT STOCKING STUFFER!!

Do you have a coffee drinker in your family?

Stop by Minot Vets for Vets and grab yourself a mug and bag of Dakota Roasters medium roast coffee for only $25!!

All proceeds go to Minot Vets for Vets

Come and get yours while supplies last!

Much Love, Minot