Veterans Interest Newsletter Issue 52

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Joel Kupersmith, M.D.

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Topics include a follow up on the workshop "Supporting Veterans After 50 Years of the All-Volunteer Force and 20 Years of War: Ideas Moving Forward" led by Joel Kupersmith, M.D. and General George W. Casey, Jr. (Ret.), statistics on the educational attainment of All-Volunteer Force (AVF) veterans, an update on the COVID-19 care numbers from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) including vaccination statistics, information on the Million Veteran Program, new statistics on suicide among active duty military and veterans from Brown University's Costs of War Project, and scams that target veteran populations. Also includes statistics from the Pew Research Center showing that military personnel from the All-Volunteer Force (AVF) are older and serve longer than those in the constripted force.