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Originally posted by Munchkin03
Today's veterans are not coming out as prepared for the real world as WWII and Vietnam era veterans were.
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I'm not so sure about that -- at least in terms of the Vietnam veterans. The all volunteer "professional" Army is supposed to have smarter soldiers than our armed forces of the past.
The "average" grunt in Vietnam was 19 years old, likely to have a high school education or less, a minority and probably drafted soon after high school. That doesn't give you a whole lot of preparation for life. As the article says, the vast majority of homeless who are former soldiers are from the Vietnam era.
Finally, the troops returning from Vietnam were hardly greeted as heros as our troops today are.
That men and women who served in our Armed Forces end up homeless is terrible -- but it is hardly a new thing.