Case Study: Wounded Warrior Project

Our Warriors Today there is an outrage in our Veteran community of how terrible the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and their lack of caring and funding for our heroes. In this paper I will give facts on how terrible this problem really is, whether it is our homeless Veterans, Veterans who die waiting for help from the VA because they cannot afford other healthcare, or the horrid waiting times in order to get any help.

That’s why it makes perfect sense to expand and reconstruct the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to undertake such a massive service. Veterans don’t deserve to be treated like this, the forgotten hero’s, now the homeless, and the starving.

The military’s deceptive authority on the treatment of wounded veterans carries little evidential weight. Therefore, the logo of the Wounded Warrior Project carries less credibility than originally presumed, and the effect of the image becomes less effective on each advertisement by the

Veterans are some of the bravest men and women that you will ever know. They fought for our country in our most desperate hours and risked their lives so we could have the chance to live ours. It is such a shame that they are ignored and even homeless in today 's society. I had wondered how we could get veterans of the street and back into the job world. After research I found that there are programs and methods put in place specifically to help these struggling veterans.

Veteran Benefits The issue of veteran benefits in the United States is not taken as seriously as it should be in our country, even though it is a growing problem that needs to be addressed. The lack of available funding for veterans is especially obvious when compared to that available for lower income citizens, or even illegal immigrants. Also, what does exist appears to fall short in taking care of veteran’s needs. Considering that these veterans are people who have risked their lives fighting for this country, the fact that they are not receiving immediate benefits or even what they have earned is unfair.

A survey showed that less than half of the soldiers with PTSD sought after help mostly out of fear of being stigmatized or hurting their careers.1 in 8 veterans returned home from Iraq/Iran with PTSD, many of those struggled to transition back into civilian life and that made it hard for them to get out there and try to get a job (1 in 8 returning soldiers suffers from PTSD But less than half with problems seek help, report finds, nbcnews). One business owner said “I’ve heard about some veterans coming back and going on rampages” in response to being asked what his concerns were about hiring veterans (Drummond, Veterans Make Valuable Employees). Although this is a valid point more business owners need to think of the positives the veteran can

The government has provided support for veterans, but it does not reach out to all veterans. Not all veterans come home homeless.

During the time between 2000 and 2011 almost a million veterans were diagnosed with a minimum of one psychosocial disorder nearly half as many had multiple cases. The U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs has annually spent millions of dollars on researching cures for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) without finding any new way for treatment to commence. The current method for treating this disorder is merely getting them to interact with other people; loved ones, or fellow soldiers are the most common. Many veterans are coming away from war with mental scars that require just as much attention as any physical wound and the United States needs to help stem the tide of this growing

I chose this topic because everywhere I go, I see veterans, homeless and disabled, standing or slumped in a position of despair and hopelessness. These veterans are the results of fighting for our country and safety and now left in a positions of needing someone to fight for them. That should be the "TOP" priority of our Veteran Affairs Administration and reflected in their webpage. We now have so many veterans from so many different facets of life and ethnic backgrounds that the majority of them absolutely no support or hope. What in being done to encourage, support and direct our non famous and not rich veterans who find themselves in a "you 're served us well

For those Wounded Warriors who can no longer take care of themself there are caregiver seminars that provide a support system and an open forum to talk about the challenges they

Other organizations such as Real Warriors offer advice to seek out medical help through speaking with a VA approved medical doctor to confirm PTSD and then become eligible for

The Warriors Ethos is a book written by Steven Pressfield, which was published in 2011. The book highlights a very rich history of warriors and their supporters alike. My goal with this paper is to draw some parallels between the examples in the book and what I took away as applicable to our lives as infantrymen In the United States Marine Corps. Chapter one is named “ Tough Mothers “. The chapter that stuck out to me most for giving perspective that I lacked prior to reading this book.

Many soldiers have “recovered from their traumatic experience with the right care” and can

If wounded, and they can 't be restored, how should they be compensated? If military service fails to provide veterans with the skills necessary to find work in the civilian sector, should the government take action? Reasonable people can disagree, and within that disagreement politics of the time rules. It is an extremely harsh irony to veterans waiting for service-connected disability compensation claims, treatment in understaffed VA facilities or struggling to find work, but this imperfect form of governance which is “our democracy”…..is precisely what they fought and risked their lives to

I. Problem Statement & Research Questions Reintegration of Veterans into civilian employment is a problem that has been well documented in the literature review. Accordingly to Faurer, Rogers-Brodersen, & Bailie, (2014) Veterans have fared poorly in the labor market and consequently there are almost one million unemployed Veterans flooding the job market, competing with millions of civilians who are struggling to find employment themselves. Humensky, Stroupe and Hynes (2013) commented that Veterans are returning home in large numbers and their non-transferable skills as scouts, gunners, and general infantry, have little comparison in the civilian world. He states that Veterans need more jobs training and schooling prior to entering the civilian