How does someone qualify as a veteran? What jobs await these veterans when they return home injured and disabled for life? What benefits does a veteran qualify for? What is Veteran job training and can it help a veteran? These questions may have bothered you while watching that news about soldiers, medics, engineers, and other military personnel going to war and then getting disabled for life. For more information please visit: http://www.GreenCollarVets.org

2. How does someone qualify as a veteran?
What jobs await these veterans when they
return home injured and disabled for life?
What benefits does a veteran qualify for?
What is Veteran job training and can it help a
veteran?
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3. These questions may have bothered you while
watching that news about soldiers, medics,
engineers, and other military personnel going to
war and then getting disabled for life.
You might have pitied their situation and wished
there was something you could do for them. The
fact is, it is not unusual that a veteran who
returned from the war would have post-war
trauma. In some cases, because of the trauma
that the war causes, the veteran becomes
homeless and sometimes completely disabled
physically and mentally.
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4. The Veteran
Any military service member who served the
army for 180 days during both peace and war-
time is entitled to have the veteran status as long
he or she was given an honorable or general
discharge.
Upon receiving the veteran status, this person
can avail of the different benefits that the
government offers for this war heroes and
heroines.
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5. The Benefits
Veteran benefits vary greatly from one
veteran to another depending on the degree
of disability, time served, number of
dependents and other factors.
Here is a list of different benefits that a
veteran will receive once he or she returns
home:
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6. • Disability Benefits.
A veteran who was injured during active duty
is entitled to receive disability benefits.
The amount is tax-free and is dependent on
the degree of disability received by the
veteran.
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7. • Health Care.
The Department of Veteran Affairs will provide
veterans low-cost health care packages
once they enroll themselves in the VA Health
Care System.
The benefit includes free dental treatment,
counseling sessions, for post war trauma and
other neurological disorder because of the
war, and more.
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8. • Pension.
This is usually for veterans who are over 65
years old or those who were totally disabled
because of active duty.
The amount may vary on the number of the
veteran's dependents.
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9. Jobs for Veterans
Sometimes instead of providing pensions and
monthly stipends, the VA resort to providing
Veteran job training.
The Veteran job training program is also a
way to encourage those veterans who were
partly disabled by the war to return to society.
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10. The Veteran job training program was
created to encourage veterans to try to live
their lives normally despite of the injury,
trauma or disability they have received.
The VA focuses on skills that neglect the use of
the veteran's disabled part.
Here is a short list of different programs that
the VA Veteran job training program offers:
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11.  Basic Computer Literacy
 Computer related courses such computer
repair, application, network and computer
systems, support, office and administration
support and database administrators
 Culinary Arts Training Program
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12.  Healthcare training programs such EMT
basic training, medical support specialists
and medical assistant.
 Specialist for Inventory Control Training
Program
 Basic Website Designs Training Program
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13. After the veteran successfully finished one or
a few of these training programs; they will not
be left alone.
The VA also promises to help the veterans
search for jobs and job placement.
The VA also ensures that veterans who
choose to reintegrate themselves to the
society are constantly followed up for the next
nine months.
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14. Want to support our hero's?
Then hire veterans today and support them
and their families!
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