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Suicide risk rises with quick repeat deployments, study shows
Type of content: News
Soldiers are more at risk of suicide when they’re repeatedly deployed with six months or less between rotations, and when they’re sent to war too soon after they join the service, new research shows.
Such quick turnarounds have become common as the U.S. sends combat troops to Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Of the 1.3 million or so active duty military personnel, about 160,000 are permanently stationed overseas, according to the federal government’s Defense Manpower Data Center.
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- Mental Health
- Suicide
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How Veterans Are Doing in the Workforce
Type of content: News
The U.S. economy has improved significantly over the past several years, and veterans now find themselves in a much better place than the years immediately following the recession.
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- Employment
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How Military Veterans Can Turn Their Skills into a Corporate Career
Type of content: News
When Toby Johnson was 24 years old, the Army pilot was in charge of eight $30 million Apache helicopters, plus the 30 people who managed them — more responsibility than any of her friends in the private sector. But when she decided to leave the Army and get a civilian job, she realized she had a challenge: most hiring managers weren’t veterans, and they struggled to understand how her military experience might translate to the corporate realm.
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- Employment
- Entrepreneurship
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Veterans: A Good Bet to Fill the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Type of content: News
There’s a talent shortage for trained cybersecurity pros, but fertile hunting grounds can be found among veterans preparing to leave military service.
Organizations as diverse as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies promote hiring veterans for jobs in the private sector.
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- Education
- Employment
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Veteran Business Loans: A Definitive Guide
Type of content: News
What is a VA business loan?
A veteran business loan is available through multiple sources and can be any type of financing that veteran entrepreneurs receive, which are usually accompanied by business development tools. This debt financing can be used to gear veteran entrepreneurs in helping them grow their businesses.
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Life After the Uniform
Type of content: News
In a 2015 letter that has come to be known as “The Call to Continued Service,” the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff urged servicemembers transitioning to civilian life to continue their service to the country as “business leaders, volunteers, and public servants” in their communities after hanging up the uniform. Many veterans are heeding this call by seeking employment in the federal government.
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- Employment
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2017 Was Tough For Veterans Nonprofits. Here’s How To Weather 2018
Type of content: News
According to Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, demand for services by veterans peaks about four decades after a conflict ends. The year 1978 was relatively quiet for active American military personnel, besides a brief Air Force involvement in South Zaire. Yet today, in 2018, the demand for veteran services is as high as many observers can remember it ever being.
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Studies show shortfalls in veterans' mental health care needs
Type of content: News
WASHINGTON — New research on veterans health out this week suggests that many recently separated servicemembers aren’t getting the mental health care they need.
The findings from a pair of separate studies amplify concerns from advocates that available resources from the Department of Veterans Affairs aren’t sufficient to help veterans overcome lingering problems from their time in the military and move ahead to successful civilian lives.
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- Benefits
- Mental Health
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- VA
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Leaving The Military Wasn’t My Idea: How Separation Status May Affect Homelessness in Women Veterans
Type of content: News
Ask enough women veterans about their own experience with homelessness and you hear a consistent refrain, that they were “unprepared” for life after the military, that homelessness “surprised” them, and they were therefore unable to plan for it. In an effort to better understand the topic overall, we surveyed almost 3,000 women veterans — from every service era from World War II to the present — about housing issues and homelessness after military service.
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- Homelessness
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- Women Veterans
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Congressman submits bill to repatriate deported veterans
Type of content: News
CORPUS CHRISTI (KIII NEWS) - As of January this year there were more than 10,000 non-citizens serving in the U.S. military, and more than 11,000 in the reserves. What you may not be aware of is that some of those vets have actually been deported.
However, one South Texas congressman is trying to change that by submitting legislation that he says has bipartisan support.
Rio Grande Valley Congressman Vicente Gonzalez, who represents parts of the Coastal Bend, has introduced a bill called "Repatriate Our Patriots."
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- Legislation
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