Returning Home from Iraq and Afghanistan Assessment of Readjustment Needs of Veterans, Service Members, and Their Families (2013) / Chapter Skim
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Chapters 4–9 provide research recommendations, under the heading of Future Research Directions, based on the lack of literature or gaps in funded research, which federal agencies should consider as a way of improving knowledge about readjustment problems. Third, in an effort to understand the characteristics of the all-volunteer military force deployed in support of OEF and OIF, the committee requested data from the Department of Defense (DOD)
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with MEDLINE and PsycINFO. It also searched the National Technical Information Service database for various government reports, such as those of the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Office of Management and Budget; for congressional testimony; and for annual reports to Congress from DOD and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
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The committee members carefully examined the table and in concert with its literature review conducted a gap analysis so that subjects on which research was lacking would be highlighted and future research recommended. The committee highlights future directions and makes specific research recommendations on the basis of its assessment of the literature and its review of the table of funded research (see "Future Directions" in Chapters 4-9)
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22 RETURNING HOME FROM IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN TABLE 2.1 DMDC Variables Deployed Active-Duty Variables Service Primary service occupation Component Armed Forces Qualification Test percentile Social Security number Duty-service occupation Last name Duty-unit location, state First name Duty-unit location, country Middle name Duty-unit location, ZIP Cadency Transaction effective date Date of birth Place of birth, state Sex Place of birth, country Marital status Home of record, state Race Service deployment Ethnicity Component deployment Education level Deployment start date Residence ZIP Deployment end date Spouse Social Security number Location begin date Dependents quantity Location end date Prior Social Security number Location, country Active federal military service base calendar date Active-duty involuntary retention reason code Military Accession Program source code Pay grade Enlisted career status code Military career category code (for Army only) Reserve Active-Duty Variables Service Date of initial entry into reserve forces Component Active-duty start date Reserve category code Active-duty end date Reserve subcategory Pay grade Social Security number Active federal military service months quantity Social Security number verification Service occupation Last name Armed Forces Qualification Test percentile First name Duty-service occupation Middle name Separation incentive benefits and/or pay indicator Cadency Assigned unit, state Date of birth Assigned unit, country Sex Assigned unit, ZIP Marital status Reserve service bonus incentive type code Race Reserve service education incentive type code Ethnicity Service deployment Education level Component deployment Home mailing state Deployment start date Home mailing ZIP Deployment end date
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Asian/Pacific Islander was coded for those who identified themselves as Asian, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander only or as primarily Asian, Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islander but with additional race groups. American Indian/Alaskan Native was coded for those who identified themselves as American Indian or Alaskan Native only or as primarily American Indian or Alaskan Native but with
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as of the end date of the file. Those with missing or unknown marital status codes were categorized as of unknown marital status.
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The presence of a large Army or Marine Corps base where service members have been deployed multiple times was the primary criterion for site selection. Mindful of the potential importance of geographic diversity, the project team and IOM agreed on Jacksonville, North Carolina Watertown, New York El Paso, Texas Olympia-Tacoma, Washington IOM requested two additional sites that had National Guard units and suggested that the project team look for communities in states that had a history of a strong National Guard -- such as Florida, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania -- and from which the local Guard unit had deployed more than once.
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Feature articles and letters to the editor, for example, offered important insights into a Guard unit's local "presence." Using those search techniques, the project team identified two National Guard locations that seemed appropriate for the IOM study's objectives: Georgetown, South Carolina, whose armory serves as the headquarters for the 1/178th Field Artillery Battalion; and the town of Little Falls, Minnesota, which hosts Camp Ripley, the training facility for the Minnesota National Guard, and has a long history of its residents' joining the National Guard. Those communities and the rationale for their selection were presented to and approved by IOM for study inclusion.
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That is one way in which social-service organizations may conduct outreach to the community, and observing which organizations were present -- or absent -- was telling during team members' attendance at the fairs. Question Matrix Review The Westat study team created a "working" data matrix (see Table 2.2)
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Each evening, to enhance data security, site-visit staff uploaded audio recordings to a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP) site and informed an assigned staff member on Westat's Rockville, Maryland, campus of the number of files to expect.
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When possible, analysts relied on other data gathered during the site visit and social theory to try to explain why differences might exist. Case-Study Reports Each site-visit team conducted its own data analysis and submitted a 12- to 15-page report shortly after each visit.
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