The Importance Of Military Life

After returning from deployment overseas, veterans trying to return to civilian life are faced with numerous challenges, such as reconnecting with family and friends, dealing with any mental or physical injuries, and figuring out how to move forward with their lives. In regards to figuring out how to move forward with life, attaining a job might seem like an easy goal, given that soldiers are trained to do a wide variety of things from maintaining composure under pressure, to performing emergency medical procedures. Upon attempting to rejoin the work force veterans often discover that the availability of jobs is dictated by the caliber of paperwork they possess, and the size of their professional network, and these new veterans would come to

In addition, to the difficulties of translating military experience, veterans also need to deal with the heightened level of job requirements that are present in the job market. The educational requirements for getting a job, or even having any upward movement within a company, have increased and in response there are more people with degrees in the pool of applicants, this is occurring because the economy is shifting away from blue collar jobs and more towards white collar jobs(Carnevale). This increase in job requirements is often not met by younger veterans simply because they do not have the paper degree to back their abilities, but the GI Bill does try to address this by putting veterans through college. Unfortunately putting a veteran through college is not the same as putting them into a job, and even then school costs more than just tuition, it also has added costs in the form of a roof over the students head, food to keep living, transportation costs, and paying any other bills, such as phone and

The connection between post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD) and being in the military is something that veterans have to deal with, an example of this is Sgt. Kobby Nyen who tells The New York Times, “[employers] have this misconception that we 're all struggling from PTSD in its most severe form”(Dewan). Because veterans are associated with PTSD employers are wary of hiring veterans even though most would claim to be an equal opportunity. In a journal article about the impact of unemployment on mental health it is stated in the results that, “unemployment is indeed an important stressor resulting in depressive symptoms”(Pelzer). Becoming depressed from unemployment and potentially suffering from PTSD creates a viscous cycle that can have a horrible effect on the well being of the a veteran suffering from both. In Victor Montgomery 's book, Healing suicidal veterans, under a list of signs and red flags he lists PTSD and depression as conditions to watch out for, he also notes that , “manic-depressive veterans in the depressphase categorized as bipolar are a population highly vulnerable to