Trent Affair

America's veterans have laid their life on the line in ways only they will ever know. They have survived living nightmares and are left with permanent scars. Some of these scars are easy to see, others are too deep, all are painful. They have come home to emptiness and desolation. Many come home to no home at all. They are left living on the streets and struggling to find work, or simply deal with life after war. American veterans deserve better than this. America's veterans deserve better care…

still continuous analyses and assessments identify many factors that affect smooth transition to the labor market to become “career ready. Despite the veteran transition programs being employed by government agencies, the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, and Labor, the problem with veterans’ unemployment, homelessness and transition issues still persists. The issues and challenges influencing the successful transition of soldiers may include (a) time-consuming delivery of necessary…

A lot of people have PTSD. It is more common anxiety than most. You could attempt to help your granddaddy with his anxiety by using classical condition therapies. First to help your granddaddy I would use the systematic desensitization. Systematic desensitization simply means to gradually expose. If he was deployed to Vietnam he is most likely very familiar with the term “Charlie”. Charlie is the term US troops called the Vietnamese bad guys in Nam. You could start by showing a piece of paper…

As of today, 31.3 million people are struggling with a disorder called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Rosenthal). People today hear a great deal about it in the news with war veterans, although, this disorder does not affect war veterans alone. For instance, if one has been exposed to any kind of tragic event, he/she is at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, unfortunately, is the inevitable result from experiencing traumas ranging from war violence to…

In 2010, then Secretary of Veterans Affairs (SECVA) Eric Shinseki recognized the need to transform the department and set out to modernize and improve Veteran Services by focusing on the in the areas of people, processes and technology. The department established as one of its priority goals to “Improve Veteran access to VA benefits and services.” In response to this goal, the department began a major transformation initiative. As part of this initiative, the Veterans Benefits Administration…

1. Back From War, but Not Really Home by Caroline Alexander from the New York Times shows the mindset of Veterans and how they have a feeling of dislocation when returning home. The veterans that made it home alive feel as though they should’ve fought with everything they had until they were no longer standing because people tend to find it easier to honor the dead veterans. The veteran’s that return from war are usually scarred and coming home can’t remove that scar. 2. Alexander connects the…

After reading materials and videos related to TBI and PTSD, I got a lot of information. I knew already about PTSD but I didn’t know well about TBI which is impacts on Veterans and service member. According to Psychiatric Services “Traumatic brain injury (TBI), affecting an estimated 22% of service members wounded in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, is often complicated by comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and other mental health problems having a dramatic…

Throughout each and every one of our lives, traumatic experiences may happen causing trauma to occur in our life for a short period of time. However, in some cases people experience chronic trauma that continues or repeats for months or even years at a time. Since C-PTSD or Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is not an official diagnosis, rather an additional sub-diagnosis for PTSD: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. C-PTSD has damaging effects on several individuals which is growing each and…

Veterans are not always given the respect they deserve for what they have to endure both during and after battle. They are troubled with both physical and emotional struggles, and are at risk of post war problems as well. However, there can also be a some positives to being a soldier in battle. In the novel Tribe, Junger explains the ups and downs that soldiers experience. By using outside sources, it can be proven that Junger is a reliable source regarding unemployed veterans, war-related…

The reason thousands of veterans get PTSD every year is caused by inflammation, or atleast that is the cause according to the article “Before the Trauma”, by Moises Velasquez- Manoff -0otr. The article claims that “scientists had also noted odd signs of inflammation in the blood serum of PTSD” (Velasquez 59). They claim that biology alone will give insight to the core of the problem and that solving inflammation is the key to curing PTSD. They then don’t use humans to unveil how the brain and…