Ten Frequently Asked Questions About Veterans' Transitions: Results of a Decade of RAND Work on Veteran Life

Abstract

The transition from military service to the civilian world can be very challenging, particularly for young veterans with no prior civilian work experience and those with injuries or disabilities. As part of their duty to care for the men and women who have served the country in uniform-as well as to promote strong member recruitment in the futurethe U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs seek to monitor and improve the education and employment opportunities and the health and well-being of military veterans and reservists. Over the past decade, RAND has proactively pursued a program of research addressing veterans' transitions to the civilian labor market. This document compiles RAND's body of work on this topic and highlights the breadth of topics RAND has studied. It distills more than a decade's worth of research on many facets of veteran life into a set of ten questions and answers gleaned from this work.

The Veterans Metrics Initiative study of US veterans’ experiences during their transition from military service

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