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

By Jennifer Steinhauer — 2020

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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Veterans Come Home To Civilian Life

We spoke with veterans about the difficulty of leaving their military “families” and returning to civilian life.

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2016
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Veterans Talk About the Military-Civilian Divide

As part of our #RethinkVets media campaign, local veterans talk about the challenges they faced re-entering civilian life.

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2017
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Sebastian Junger: Why Veterans Miss War

Civilians don't miss war. But soldiers often do. Journalist Sebastian Junger shares his experience embedded with American soldiers at Restrepo, an outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley that saw heavy combat.

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2014
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Finding Meaning After the Military

You either get it or you don’t. Empowerment Strategist, Byron Rodgers has cut straight to the heart of surviving the depths and peaks of life. A former marine, this extraordinary life coach has written a book that will fill the well and quench the thirst of every man seeking fulfillment in life.

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Byron Rodgers
2025
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How to Successfully Transition from Military to Civilian Life | Brian O’Connor | TEDxOakland

Through his talk, Brian candidly shares tips and tricks on how to successfully transition from military to civilian life. Mr.

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2019
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Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul: Stories to Stir the Pride and Honor the Courage of Our Veterans

Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul will inspire and touch any veterans and their families, and allow others to appreciate the freedom for which they fought.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Sidney R. Slagter
2025
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Our Lonely Society Makes It Hard to Come Home from War | Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger has seen war up close, and he knows the impact that battlefield trauma has on soldiers.

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2016
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VCP Tiny Home Tour

Tour a tiny house in VCP Village—Kansas City and experience "housing with dignity."

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2020
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Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal―Recovering from PTSD and Moral Injury through Meditation

Winner of a 2019 Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year Award After serving in a scout-sniper platoon in Mosul, Tom Voss came home carrying invisible wounds of war—the memory of doing or witnessing things that went against his fundamental beliefs.

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Tom Voss, Rebecca Anne Nguyen
2025
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Thank You for Your Service

No journalist has reckoned with the psychology of war as intimately as David Finkel. In The Good Soldiers, his bestselling account from the front lines of Baghdad, Finkel embedded with the men of the 2-16 Infantry Battalion as they carried out the infamous “surge”.

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David Finkel
2014
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Military to Civilian Re-entry