By Samuel Greengard, Workforce Management
For
veterans returning from the devastation they had witnessed during World War II
to the jubilance and normalcy that awaited them at home, the world must have
felt like their oyster. Soldiers came back to heroes' welcomes and ticker-tape
parades. Just like they had conquered the world.
What
might not have been top-of-mind for those veterans was the job market that
awaited them. Much like today's military personnel who leave behind the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan, World War II vets returned home to financial uncertainty.
That economic anxiety was the result of not-so-distant memories of the Great
Depression while today's economy is shadowed by the ghost of the Great
Recession. In both the '40s and today, the issue of military personnel
returning from service has created challenges for employers, policymakers and
the soldiers themselves.
"It
is an adjustment. The military and the workplace are very different," says
Jordan Moore, a member of the Oklahoma Air National Guard. After graduating
from high school in 2008 and attending a year of college, she enlisted and
spent two months in Iraq in late 2011. Read more here...
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