Science Daily | October 2016 There are nearly 20 million veterans living in the United States today with 14% from the post-911 era (9/2011 or later), 18% from the Gulf War (1990 – 2001), 36% from the Vietnam era, and 17% from earlier conflicts (United States Census Bureau, 2015). In 2009, Secretary Eric Shinseki of the Department of Veterans Affairs …
USF nurses get Army grant to help vets
Inside USF Blog, Tampa Bay Online | Lindsay Peterson The U.S. Army has given USF’s nursing college $2.1 million to start a new therapy center for Iraq and Afghanistan war vets. To put the grant into perspective, it’s the equivalent of about $50 for each of the roughly 40,000 Florida vets now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in …