post-traumatic stress disorder

Help lags for homeless female veterans

About 8,000 women lack permanent shelter. Need is likely to rise as more women return from war.

By Bina Venkataraman
The Christian Science Monitor
July 18, 2007

'On the verge of homelessness': Rachel Caesar, who spent 14 years in the military.
Rachel Caesar, the first American-born in her family of immigrants from Trinidad, served in the National Guard and Army Reserve for 14 years. Today, three years after returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, she's out of an apartment, out of work, and, on some days, ready to "run away and hide."

Troubled Soldier Gets Demoted, Not Treated

By Aaron Glantz
IPS

SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 6 (IPS) - Cody Miranda joined the U.S. Marine Corps when he was 17 years old. He loved the military and hoped to spend his entire career in the service.

Miranda has served more than 16 years in the Marine Corps. Over the years, he's been deployed to the Middle East six times, including stints in the 1991 Persian Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

But when he returned from a tour in Iraq in 2003, his stepmother Jodie Stewart says, he was a changed man.