Helping Soldiers Leverage Army Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities in Civilian Jobs

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Comparing the Army's Suicide Rate to the General U.S. Population: Identifying Suitable Characteristics, Data Sources, and Analytic Approaches

“…Additionally, extensive work would be needed to decide how to determine which general population occupations best align with military occupations. Preliminary work in this area has been done by Wenger et al (2017) and could be used as a basis for this work. Soldiers may differ from their general population counterparts regarding ownership of or access to personally owned firearms, the suicide method used in the majority of Army suicides.…”

“…There is an additional challenge: even if better general population data existed, it would be difficult to compare military occupation codes with general population occupation codes. The jobs are very different, though there are some crosswalks between the two (Wenger et al, 2017). If better general population data on occupations and suicide were available, it might be possible to match on broad occupational classes, though the comparability of, for instance, "law enforcement" or "health care services" in the general population and Army settings is probably not great.…”

Post-9/11 Veterans’ Soft Skill Adaptability: Conversations in Veterans Studies: A Cross-Sectional Study of Self-Directed Motivation to Acquire Critical Skills in Deployed Settings

“…This emphasis on soft skill development prompts a more progressive and holistic, skills-based approach to identify varying perspectives of veterans to confidently adapt the critical thinking, problemsolving, and decision-making skills they possess across a broad range of workforce sectors in the US. This notion of adaptability advances a cross-sectional analysis that informs the suitability of these most prominent critical skills where self-efficacy of knowledge, skills, and abilities (or KSAs; Kirchner & Akdere, 2019;Wenger et al, 2017) among post-9/11 veterans are leveraged, more clearly identifying specific prerequisites required in the performance between military and civilian occupations, and demonstratable through qualifying experience, education, or training.…”

Validating military culture: The factor analysis of a military-related adaptation of acculturation in veterans.

“…Research connecting military culture and civilian-related outcomes is limited and needed, as are civilian provider and population efforts to enhance military cultural competence (Parrott et al, 2020). It is imperative that providers are aware that the degree to which veterans identify with military culture impacts aspects of everyday life following separation from military service, such as employment satisfaction (Koenig et al, 2014; Wenger et al, 2017).…”