Air Force

The aim of this study was to describe deployed National Guard members' and their families' perceptions of their experience with family reintegration, and the causes and conditions of challenges reintegration presents after deployment.

Few studies examine family reintegration among National Guard families. Interview data were used to examine National Guard members' and families' experiences of family reintegration following deployment.

Twenty-one female veterans volunteered to talk about 29 events of military sexual assault (MSA) via semi-structured interviews covering pre-military abuse, during and immediately after the assault and reactions post-assault.

Background: Adolescent children of U.S. military veterans may be at increased risk for engaging in substance use; however, this has yet to be examined using nationally representative data.

National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUHs) data were used to examine the association between Veteran father and non-Veteran father's parental involvement, parent-child communication, and parental beliefs about child substance use on adolescent substance use.

Military youth have unique challenges, particularly when a parent is deployed. Camp participation has been linked to multiple positive outcomes, thus camps have become popular as a setting for addressing these youth’s unique needs.

Adolescent dependents of Service members experience unique challenges related to military life; deployment support camps may help them cope with some of these challenges.