VHVtv is now Veterans Helping Veterans TV Podcasts. Our YouTube handle is @VhvtvOrg
VHVtv and the Veterans Resource Center at UC Riverside
In the last few years, I have been collaborating with Tami Thacker, the Director at the Veterans Resource Center
at UC Riverside, CA as we film Student Veteran Stories at the VRC.
VHVtv is community educational access television. Current videos are now on PADNET tv in Long Beach, CA
All videos will be done on the campus at the University of California Riverside at the Veterans Resource Center.
UC Riverside and VHVtv Talent Release Form.
Talent Release
These are the videos we have created in the last few months.
We have filmed at Vet Expo Events in Moreno Valley, Menifee and Winchester so far this year.
Tami Thacker, Sheryl Shaffer and VHVtv Intern Amaris Orozco.
We have plans for more Veteran Stories to tell this year!
Thank You Co-Producer Armaris Orozco.
Here is our first Veteran Story in 2026.
Rod “Doc” Fink, U.S. Navy Corpsman tells his incredible story of surviving and helping the wounded
when he was attached to the 1st Battalion 9th Marines,
known as The Walking Dead during the Vietnam War.
This interview was filmed at the Winchester Vet Expo in Feb. 2026.
Another interview with U.S. Marine Corps(R) Sergeant Major Gerald Saunders.
This interview is with U.S. Marine Corps (R) SgtMajor Gerald Saunders.
This VHVtv interview is with Tami Thacker and Kevin Brooks and was filmed at the VRC.
Tami and Kevin are all about creating successful employment and business opportunities for Veterans.
Photo taken at the VetExpo in Murrieta, CA.
While at the Vet Expo in Murrieta, we filmed this interview with
Larock Benford, U.S. Marine Corps Sergeant Major(R).
He presents the Southwest Riverside County Marine Corps League Detachment 1057.
Here is a recent video we made at the Vet Expo in Moreno Valley on Oct. 2, 2025
It is about US Marine Corps Veteran Karen Hooper.
This interview is with the
VA Women Veteran’s Program Manager,
Rocio Porras, FMC-BC at the VA Loma Linda, CA.
This VHVtv segment is about Lisa Roybal, a U.S. Navy Nurse Corps(R) Veteran and
actively involved in the AMVETS One Tour and participates in the AMVETS Post 77, Loma Linda, Ca.
She lives a life of serve for the Veteran Community.
The second interview is with Ralph Watkins of U.S. VETS in the Inland Empire.
This interview is with Phyllis Thomas Miller, a U.S. Navy Veteran and her beautiful art.
The next video interview is with U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Julie Franco and Founder of Gunny Gear.
Ralph Figueroa, Tami Thacker and Sheryl Shaffer, VHVtv Producer.
Ralph Figueroa is interviewed by Tami Thacker at the UC Riverside Veterans Resource Center.
Ralph was the National Student Veteran of the Year 2024 and
advises other student veterans to get involved in the SVA.
Tami Thacker is interviewed by VRC UCR and VHVtv Intern, Jaspreet Kaur
Tami tells us about the updating and Grand Reopening of the Veterans Resource Center.
Filmed by the side of the USS Midway in San Diego on December 5, 2021.
