Tag Archives: Returning Veterans
← Older postsBack from Afghanistan, 25 Utah soldiers see their babies for the first time
April 26, 2013When 25 Utah National Guard soldiers returned home from a deployment to Afghanistan this week, 27 babies — 23 new sons and daughters and two sets of twins —were waiting to meet them for the first time. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Afghanistan, Military families, Returning Veterans | Leave a commentOn 10th anniversary of invasion of Iraq, Fox company’s ‘Saints and Sinners’ count the cost
March 18, 2013It took years, anger severe enough to doom his marriage, and a recurring nightmare for Nick Lopez to acknowledge what the ground invasion of Iraq, which began on March 19, 2003, had cost him. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Iraq, Iraq veterans, Mental health, Military families, Returning Veterans | Leave a commentUtah aims to better serve its veterans
February 15, 2013Veterans ignorant of — or bewildered by — an array of services offered by state agencies in Utah will have an easier go of it under proposed legislation. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Civilian Life, Returning Veterans, Utah, Veterans Affairs | Leave a comment‘Changing the culture’ helps Fort Bliss lower suicide rate
February 5, 2013Soldier suicides at Fort Bliss in New Mexico are on the decline, bucking an Army-wide trend. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Army suicide, Fort Bliss, Returning Veterans, Suicide, Suicide Rate, Veteran Health | Leave a commentSailing ‘cathartic and uniquely tranquil’ for wounded veterans
February 4, 2013Sail away and leave the land behind, even for a short time, and it will change you. Schooner Eros captains Grace and Bill Bodle are extending that healing experience to severely injured military veterans. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Returning Veterans, Sailing, Wounded veterans | Leave a commentColorado veteran: Yoga for Vets can ‘help find a sense of calm’
January 31, 2013Clay, a University of Colorado senior and Army veteran, joined a Yoga for Vets class to help him cope with stress. “The most enlightening thing I’ve discovered,” he said, “is that the only thing we can control in our lives is our breath.” Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Mental health, PTSD, Returning Veterans, Veteran Health | 1 CommentMeet America’s five quadruple amputees injured in Iraq, Afghanistan
January 29, 2013Five remarkable young men are learning to thrive as quadruple amputees after surviving severe injuries while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Meet Brendan Marrocco, Todd Nicely, John Peck, Travis Mills and Taylor Morris. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Disabled Veterans, Iraq veteran, Prosthetics, Returning Veterans | Leave a commentIraq veteran who lost all 4 limbs receives double-arm transplant
January 28, 2013Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in the Iraq War, and doctors revealed Monday that he’s received a double-arm transplant.
Those new arms “already move a little,” he tweeted a month after the operation. Continue reading
PTSD, burn pits, unemployment, suicide risk: Veterans battling myriad challenges
January 27, 2013When Anthony Vidales walked out of a lie detector test as part of his application process at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, he wanted to cry. He failed, he said, due to his irregular breathing from burn pit exposure in Iraq. As he battles unemployment and negative stereotypes about veterans, he’s also challenged by PTSD. Continue reading
Posted in News | Tagged Employment, Iraq veteran, Jobs, Mental health, PTSD, Returning Veterans | Leave a commentExperiencing assault a possible risk factor for military suicide
January 24, 2013Military members who are raped or assaulted are much more likely to think about or attempt suicide, according to new research by the National Center for Veterans Studies. Continue reading
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