The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. They consist of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and the Coast Guard. Although the United States Army and Marine Corps are both primarily ground- based forces and offer many similar career fields, the two branches are different in some very crucial areas. To accurately compare and contrast the services, it is important to look at their overall missions and career fields.
Homelessness in veterans has become a major problem in Alabama due to a lack of affordable housing and little help treating PTSD, so in order to help decrease the levels veteran homelessness, I plan making twenty donation bags with my youth group every year; moreover, these bags will contain basic necessity items, with the advantage of no longer spending money on these items, homeless veterans will be able to spend money on more important things like finding work. The part of my solution of donation to a local non-profit started from the idea of “[focusing] your efforts on supporting the homeless veteran service providers in your community, or [becoming] an active advocate to ensure that veterans receive an appropriate share of the resources
Mission: Develop a Non –Profit, third party program and find source funding to help female veterans (active & non active duty) one on one with counseling, career advancement, and listen to their every need without judgment and comparison to male veterans.
The Vietnam Veterans of America is a charity in Georgia that serves all veterans and we will ask them to donate used clothes, shoes, appliances and other household items to soldiers and service men and women. We will appeal to the Coastal Habitat for Humanity to donate time and equipment to build houses for low-income residents. United Way will collaborate with CAT to give free bus passes to those struggling financially, but are trying to get to work and achieve economic independence. We will appeal to Toys R Us to donate educational games and toys to the several YMCAs we support as well as the Greenbriar Children’s Center, Hodge Memorial Day care center as well as dozens of the other school readiness and youth academic programs that United Way supports.
U.S veterans former, and current have fought or are fighting and have died in battle serving this wonderful country. More former veterans than ever are coming back disabled either mentally or physically. There are hundreds of disabled veteran foundations in the United States today, but a lot are a fraud. Everybody who has not served should donate a good amount of money of these foundations and not be worried about the foundations keeping it or giving it to someone else who shouldn’t receive it. We owe our lives to these men and women. Like Elmer Davis once said, ¨Our nation is the land of the brave because it is the home of the brave¨ (Elmer.). More Veterans are coming back disabled than ever before. To see the disgusted and sad faces on these families of these heroes who can’t live the way they used to is extremely depressing, You should
As the war is coming to an end, we find more and more veterans coming home from a violent and brutal war. The services military personnel are given after being discharge is not enough to help convert them back into civilian life. I can speak from personal experience as my husband had many difficulties adjusting back to normal life. He exhibits symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as he was always hyperventilating and had nightmares when he slept. Many veterans are not given services directly until they actually request help. Getting assistance has become extremely difficult for veterans as the Veteran Affairs makes service members prove that their injuries occurred in the line of duty. This documentation is hard to provide because many service member are taught to not show weakness. This discourages them to go to “sick call” or see a medic while serving. Every time I pass by downtown Los Angeles I see a larger population of homeless people in the area. Homelessness among veteran is a problem that will continue to grow if we do not help these men and women that protected our country. Many of services members choose to self medicate because the system in place makes it so difficult for them to get help. We need to change the system and help these warriors get therapy to talk about the trauma they have witness and get them the medical help they
Every winter, I have fond memories of sitting around the Christmas tree, eagerly opening presents with my family, and walking downtown with my friends, with the brilliant lights in the trees and our footprints quickly being covered up again by the snow. Family and friends are the most precious things, especially around the holidays. But each year, I know, in the back of my mind, that there are countless families out there that are missing someone, a loved one, and a veteran. Maybe to suicide, to injury, or to one of the multitude of other health issues, both mental and physical, that many veterans carry with them wherever they go. I have always believed that supporting our veterans is a crucial part of our culture in the United States, and
FACTS: VA estimates that 107,000 veterans are homeless on any given night, and over the course of a year, approximately twice that many experience homelessness. Only eight percent of the general population can claim veteran status, but nearly one-fifth of the homeless population are veterans.
Our country’s veterans have suffered entirely too much, and we as a country have not done enough to repay them because of this I encourage you to vote for “Wounded Warrior Assistance Act of 2015 HR3374”. This act will allow single-parent veterans, who are participating in a rehabilitation program, the opportunity to receive a reimbursement of up to $1,000 for each month the veteran is enrolled in the program. The only stipulations to this act are if the veteran is the only caretaker and would be unable to accommodate child care without the additional funds. According to the Wounded Warrior website, 75,287 veterans have been assisted by the Wounded Warrior Project, and there are 12,557 family members associated. Veterans are a group of people that have been alienated from our society since the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, everyone was concerned with peace; likewise, the military today
The population in the United States is just over 324 million people. According to the most recent statistics from the U.S. Census, 18.8 million of these people are veterans. That’s almost double the amount of people that currently reside in the state of Michigan. And after sacrificing their lives to serve America, veterans
A large number of veterans with service related injuries live in rural areas due to the fact that residents in rural
A large number of veterans with service related injuries live in rural areas due to the fact that residents in rural communities are more likely to join military service then individuals from urban areas. 44% of recruits are from rural areas compared to 14% from urban (Gale). Due to the higher rate of rural individuals joining the military, there is a higher rate of rural veterans needing medical care after leaving the military. According to the VHA-ORH of the 22 million vets in the U.S, 5.3 million or 24% live in rural areas. 3.2 million of these rural vets are registered with the Veterans Affairs health care system, this accounts for 35% of total enrollees.
You know the commercial with Trace Adkins in it? Yea, that is the Wounded Warrior Project. In this paper you will find many facts about the organizations and things that say good and bad things about it. This organization is one of the few that I would consider donating to. The Wounded Warrior Project has several critics but they continue to keep their reputation high by providing help to thousands of military veterans in many different ways.
My research is unique because, I would like to secure grant monies not only for research purposes, but to implement changes in my small town and well as in other states across the U.S. by, helping veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as those newly enlisted soldiers, as a way of early prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Requiring the government to put into place programs that will administer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Prolonged Exposure Therapy to recruits before, during and after deployment.
As a part of receiving a scholarship to attend Arkansas Tech University, I am require to volunteer 20 hours per semester. A few weeks back I volunteered at a new type of organization to help veterans suffering with PTSD. The organization is called Solder On Service Dogs (SOSD) located in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The organization is relative new and was founded by Angie Pratt in September 2014. The Solder on Service Dogs website states that Pratt started the organization after a close relative, a Marine bomb technician, was injured in Afghanistan and began experiencing the effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Pratt began searching for PTSD treatments and started to consider a service dog to help her relative. Pratt was not able to find any organizations that provided service dogs to help victims of PTSD. Solder On Service Dogs is the only organization of its kind in the state of Arkansas. The service dogs grow through a structured training program to respond to PTSD symptoms. The training programs as described on the Solder on Service Dogs website is designed to “detect seizures, disrupt nightmares, call 911, reduce need for medication, mitigate anxiety, reduce stress and change the quality of live for theses veterans and families.” I had the opportunity during my volunteer time to meet veterans with PTSD and observe