Post 9 11 Veterans More Likely To Have Experienced Emotional Trauma Than Other Generations
A new Pew Survey took a look at the new crop of veterans who deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq following 9/11 in order to assess how their needs and feelings about their time in combat varied from those who served before the attacks. They found that around 20 percent of the 20 million military veterans alive today have served on active duty following September 11, 2001. These soldiers are more likely to have been deployed than their predecessors, about 77 percent of post-September 11 soldiers were deployed at least once, compared with 58 percent of those who served before them....