Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers Announces Graduating Class of Disabled Veteran Trainees

FORT MYERS, Fla. - Feb. 17, 2016 - PRLog -- Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers (http://www.dvic.us/) (DVIC), the non-profit organization that helps train, educate and create meaningful employment opportunities within the insurance industry for disabled veterans, celebrated the graduation of its most recent class on Feb. 4. The three graduating disabled veterans, Nelson Acevedo-Diaz, Jordan Hess and Paul Dunaway, were each awarded their Certified Insurance Service Representative (CISR) designations. The CISR program, developed by The National Alliance for Insurance Education, is a CE credit-approved, nationally recognized designation that included five courses of study.

“I am so proud of our three recent graduates,” stated Gary Bryant, president and CEO of DVIC. “They have each spent the last six months training and working toward the goal of achieving their CISR designation, and they each accomplished that. With their military training and insurance training combined, the have very successful careers ahead of them.”

DVIC relies on corporate donations, personal donations and support from the Florida Department of Veterans Affairs to continue to sponsor disabled veterans who go through the CISR training program. If you would like to sponsor a veteran or make a donation to DVIC, please visit DVIC.us or call 239.433.8523.

ABOUT DISABLED VETERANS INSURANCE CAREERS

Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers is a not for profit 501(C) 3 organization, established in 2011 with the mission to educate, train and create meaningful employment opportunities within the insurance industry for disabled veterans. The organization’s operating board consists of: retired U.S. Army Major General, James L. Dozier; Roger C. Mercado Jr. of Community Cooperative Inc.; Gary V. Trippe CIC, co-founder and chairman of Oswald Trippe and Co.; retired insurance agency executive Gay Trippe; John Pollock CIC, regional insurance president, Florida, Pennsylvania, Tennessee of BB&T Insurance Services, Inc.; retired U.S. Army Colonel Thomas A. Dials, chairman emeritus of the Armed Forces Insurance Corporation; Dr. J.R. Harding of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; former U.S. Air Force Captain and professional speaker, Wayne Smith; Todd E. Gates, chairman of Gates Construction; and retired U.S. Army Captain Jae Barclay of CRC Insurance Services . Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Gary L. Bryant is the president and CEO of DVIC. For additional information, call 239-433-8523 or visit www.DVIC.us. (http://www.dvic.us/)