Sound like pork barrel to me. They used to say “for the children”. Now it is “for the veteran”.
Many years in loss prevention and P&C insurance tell me that there are 2 relevant factors in car crashes with vets.
- Alcohol. As with everyone, alcohol is a killer.
- Attitude. Some vets have a chip on their shoulder. They don’t feel appreciated or recognized. While they were serving, others advanced their careers. Now the vets have to re-establish their careers from square one. And their spouse/fiance wasn’t appreciated for being connected to a vet. Some of them buckled under the pressure.
Should we have affirmative action for vets to get them back into the workforce ahead of those who didn’t serve?
Affirmative action for them was big after WWII and Korea. But from personal experience, the opposite occurred with Vietnam vets. Human Resource departments consciously discriminated against us Vietnam vets, fearing we were all psychos as pictured by Hollyweird.
“Should we have affirmative action for vets to get them back into the workforce ahead of those who didn’t serve?
Affirmative action for them was big after WWII and Korea. But from personal experience, the opposite occurred with Vietnam vets. Human Resource departments consciously discriminated against us Vietnam vets, fearing we were all psychos as pictured by Hollyweird.”
I was given my job back in 1970, when I finished my two year conscription duty.
It was exactly according to the law at that time. (They liked my work before I was drafted, so I didn’t need “affirmative action”)
I DO favor veterans preferences in hiring, which we have for government jobs. Hopefully private employers will want to help a vet with a job, too. I would if I was hiring.