Service Members

Female service members’ family structures differ from the traditional male service member_female spouse composition of military families.

A secondary analyses of the 2010 wave of the Military Family Life Project regarding structural differences in male and female Service members' families and the experiences of their military spouses was investigated.

The United States Air Force Deployment Transition Center (DTC) operates a 2-day third-location decompression program that commenced operations during the summer of 2010 in Ramstein, Germany, with the aim to assist Air Force service members (AFSMs) who are returning from deployment as they prepare

An evaluation comparing the mental health and well-being of a sample of United States Air Force participants who were required to attend the deployment transition center (DTC) program to a weighted control group who did not attend the DTC program was conducted.

Objective: To determine if deployment to recent military operations or other health, demographic, or military-related characteristics were associated with employment after military service.

The study examined whether deployment experiences, health, demographic, and militaryrelated characteristics were associated with civilian employment after military service. Of the 9,099 former U.S. Active Duty Service members in the study, 17% were unemployed after military service.

Issues surrounding mental health are common for women veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The goal of this phenomenological study was to document themes in the stories gathered from eight women veterans who had come back from war.

Female Veterans who were deployed often face unique challenges compared to their male counterparts. Eight female Veterans were interviewed in the study, and they told stories about their experiences coming back from war.

Using a cross-sectional design, this study surveyed 144 students on campus who are service members and veterans to determine whether posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms are significantly correlated with demographic factors (e.g., age, race and marital status), risk factors (e.g., military branch

A survey of 900 university student Service members and Veterans was administered to determine whether posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms are significantly correlated with demographic factors (e.g., age, race, marital status), risk factors (e.g., military branch, combat exposure), and resources (