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Adaptability & reentry

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Veterans Coming Home—Dwayne Parker: Learning to Adapt WHRO

While serving his country in Saudi Arabia, Airman Dwayne Parker lost vision in his right eye. Like thousands of our servicemen and women wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan, Dwayne returned home to a life filled with challenges. For Dwayne, frustration and depression soon followed.

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Tough as They Come

Thousands have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Five have survived quadruple amputee injuries. This is one soldier’s story. Thousands of soldiers die every year to defend their country.

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Woman Veteran Helps Others to Adapt

Ukraine has got around 16 thousand women veterans since 2014. Yulia Kirillova is one of them.

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Sebastian Junger: Why Soldiers Returning From War Have Trouble Adapting

Author of War Sebastian Junger has devoted a sizable chunk of his life and career to studying and writing about why veterans have trouble adapting when they return from war. Hear his findings, and unlock a set of issues that goes beyond our veterans and looks into our society as a whole.

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Once a Warrior: How One Veteran Found a New Mission Closer to Home

From Marine sniper Jake Wood, a riveting memoir of leading over 100,000 veterans to a life of renewed service, volunteering to battle, hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, pandemics, and civil wars, and inspiring onlookers as their unique military training saved lives and rebuilt our country.

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Veterans Are Working, but Not in Jobs That Match Their Advanced Training

Like most Americans, veterans have benefited from a robust labor market. But skills learned in combat do not always translate to private-sector jobs.

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Battlefield to the Boardroom: Adaptability

Veterans bring adaptability to the work force when they get out but only if they remember the lessons they learned when they served. Join SgtMaj (ret) Charlie Wells and Col Garth Massey on Battlefield to the board room talking about what it takes to succeed anywhere.

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Sing Not War: The Lives of Union and Confederate Veterans in Gilded Age America

After the Civil War, white Confederate and Union army veterans reentered--or struggled to reenter--the lives and communities they had left behind.

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“Which One Is the Real Me?”—A Veteran’s Transition and Identity Crisis

Like most veterans, I found the transition from military to civilian life a struggle—a tougher struggle than I had anticipated. For me, I found that one of my trickier struggles was with my identity.

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The Transition You Never Asked For: Finding Meaning after Losing Your Military Career to Disability

You can build back your life

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