#Military Benefits

[wounderwarriorproject]

Empower Women Vets | Warrior Tonya Oxendine | Wounded Warrior Project

According to the 2021 #AnnualWarriorSurvey, nearly 67% of women warriors WWP serves reported experiencing military sexual trauma (MST). #Veteran Tonya Oxendine shares how MST impacted her life and how she found new strength through our programs which empower female veterans.

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The 2021 survey asked WWP warriors about military sexual trauma (MST) in two separate contexts. First, MST was included in a list of possible injuries incurred during service. In this context, 10% of warriors selected MST as an injury they had experienced during service. Later in the survey, warriors were asked again about MST but in more detail surrounding specific experiences. In this context, more warriors reported experiencing MST; 16.3% indicated they had experienced sexual assault or sexual harassment involving military personnel (active duty or Reserve), DoD civilian employees, and/or contractors (of either gender) while in the military.

The VA defines military sexual trauma (MST) as sexual assault or harassment experienced during military service. Sexual harassment is the request for or pressure to engage in sexual favors (i.e., threats of negative treatment, refusal to cooperate, or WWP Talk promises of better treatment in exchange for sex), unsolicited sexual advances, or verbal comments that are sexual in nature. Sexual assault is unwanted sexual contact or activities without your consent, including when you are asleep or intoxicated and being overpowered or physically forced to have sex.28 MST, like any trauma, is associated with a higher likelihood of PTSD, depression, and substance use disorder (SUD).

After 30 years in the Army, Tonya Oxendine retired with the highest enlisted rank as command sergeant major. It was only after she retired that her life started to unravel. She faced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety, even after securing a promising new career on the civilian side.

“I was struggling with my mental health and had suicidal thoughts regularly,” Tonya said.

She eventually found female veteran resources in  WWP Talk, a free mental health phone support line provided by Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP). The program provides wounded veterans with free emotional support and tools to help them set and achieve goals.

Tonya started talking with a teammate from WWP Talk and participated in other WWP mental, physical, and financial health programs.

Through WWP Talk especially, Tonya realized how important it is to take care of herself for her own sake. “The truth was, at the time, I didn’t think that I mattered.”

WWP Talk offers individualized emotional support over the phone. Each participant is paired with a WWP Talk partner who will call them at the same day and time each week. They will typically talk for 20 minutes and work through setting goals and finding solutions that fit.

WWP Talk helps veterans like Tonya with PTSD, anxiety, and depression. It lets them know they are not alone.

“When I started talking with my WWP Talk partner, I felt alone and isolated,” Tonya recalled. “But soon I came to look forward to talking with him and took notes on what to share with him in between appointments. I knew he would want to know how I was doing.”

Tonya recalled how her WWP Talk partner changed her outlook with skills she could use “to cope with day-to-day anxiety.” “My WWP Talk partner wasn’t pushy, he just listened,” Tonya said. “Sometimes I would just be crying and even his silent listening was comforting.”

“Thanks to WWP Talk, my counselors, and my mental health providers, I am now able to express myself in ways that can help others, which in turn helps me,” Tonya said.

“WWP Talk is about resilience,” Tonya added. “It helps build resilience and find ways to be happy, better, and healthy. In helping my mental health, I’m going to be able to help other people find happiness.”

#Military Benefits #Wounded Warriors #Wounded Warrior Projects #Veterans Benefits

[palipunk]

I want to know what universe some of you are living in

#this is the same ‘nobody hates the us military more than veterans’ shit with a different font #like I guarantee you Palestinians hate the Israeli gov more than the people who have benefited off our oppression #just saying #palestine

[reportwire]

ETS-SP and CollegeRecon Partnership Helps Transitioning Service Members, Veterans Navigate Civilian Life, Higher Education

Organizations Bridge Military-to-Civilian Gap, Empower Active Duty, Veterans & Their Families Through Education & Tuition Assistance Information Press Release – Feb 21, 2023 10:00 EST ARLINGTON, Va., February 21, 2023 (Newswire.com) – The Expiration Term of Service Sponsorship Program (ETS-SP), a national non-profit organization bridging the gap between military and civilian life, is…

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#education assistance #GI Bill #Military benefits #military service #transitioning service members #tuition assistance #veteran support networks #Veterans #Veterans Administration

[haute-lifestyle-com]

Breaking is an indictment against an in-triplicate system that is built to reduce vets to begging for respect, and benefits rightly earned and owed to them.  #janetwalker #hautelifestylecom #theentertainmentzonecom #breaking #respect #veterans #ptsd

#janet walker #haute-lifestyle.com #the-entertainment-zone.com #breaking #veteran #ptsd #military #military benefits

[essektheylyss]

It is actually buckwild to learn that the Prime Consector is straight up one of three heads of government, and the Trust has been effectively using the role as an easy scapegoat. They've been playing games with Company Valor earnings, and they're publicizing every moment of their time on the job and then some. This is the Trust's most effective tool for putting action behind the ideals they want to push, and they're shooting themselves in the foot.

On one hand, a cult of this kind will of course be more effective if its leadership has drank its own Kool-aid, but on the other hand, the quantified tangibility of their ideals and the way the Upper Trust fabricates public opinion and manipulates those in debt means that it's hard to believe they aren't at least somewhat aware of this. So it's astounding to me how much trust they have in the general populace's belief in the Valor system.

The Company is probably the most visible group of individuals outside of literal media personalities. If the Upper Trust committed to making it just a little easier for Company members to break even than for the general public, they would have no issue with control. The Company, after all, are taking on personal risk to themselves in their line of work, and in theory what they're doing is all for the good of the Trust. This is a job that could easily be accounted as worthy of higher rates of Valor, allowing Company members to accrue and break even more quickly, and showcase the societal commitment to upward mobility.

Of course, as in real life, high-control cults do fall victim to their own messaging, and have blind spots which often lead to their demise. This is not to say that it's unbelievable that the Trust has hampered their efforts in this way.

But it is fascinating to consider that, as they're pinning the blame for the devaluation of Valor on their Prime Consector, the routine procedure of this blame game is in fact a cornerstone of the erosion of the Valor system's credibility and by extension effectiveness, and it's been a very long time coming.

#midst podcast #midst spoilers #midst meta #like look the US military is WAY more effective when they're actually helping vets get the benefits they're promised #the propaganda doesn't work as well when you don't follow through!

[hauntedmoors]

love how dune was like paul is following in his mother’s footsteps (achieving revenge by exploiting an entire people and subjecting the rest of the universe to unimaginable violence from grief) and chani is following in her mother’s footsteps (fighting for her people and the ecological health of her planet) and you know they’re so fucking doomed from the very beginning.

#some of the accessory details are so incredibly important to the story. the atreides have fanatical support from their military which is #later transposed onto the fremen. the atreides don’t come to arrakis with the intention to transform its ecology for the benefit of #its native people. they come to continue the cycle of resource exploitation and economic benefit albeit. they tolerate fremen because they #offer a strategic benefit. #text #dune #btw never assume any post about paul is also not about alia ^^

[feluka]

i could straight up doxx myself by linking to a trackable google maps location of myself complete with a live video feed of me 24/7 and you people in the tags of my notes would still talk to me like i'm from the US

#unrelated incident from a while back: one time i was arguing about the US online (as i'm wont to be) #and the person was like 'oh i don't see you complaining when you benefit from the safety that the us military provides' #and 'you would be in danger if the system wasn't like that' and such nonsense #anyway i was like. babey i am NOT from the US #and they immediately responded 'oh you think europe isn't also guilty of the things you're talking about either????' #at that point i just logged off lmao #ah yes. the two continents in the world. north america and europe.

[sesshomarou]

i have a sickening feeling that once israel ceases to be politically beneficial to western countries the governments will try to use it as a way to once again scapegoat Jewish people

#free palestine #gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #israel #palestine #genocide #like the ridiculous anti-semistism law is actually a don’t criticize israel law #as if the us government would ever actually protect jewish people #and the fact that jewish people denounce zionism and attend protests is proof of how its colonizer mentality #like their are jewish people in israel right now protesting and being silenced by their government where is their protection? #where was the protection for the orthodox jewish men who were brutally beaten in the streets by military officers? #where is the protection for palestinian jews? #fuck zionism all my homies hate zionism #it’s so horrifying that the tyrannical politicians who benefit from genocide will never see true justice #but the ordinary people who try to stop it take the damage #and of course the absolute horror palestinians are facing is unspeakable #i hope all those poor souls are resting in paradise and their persecution is ended soon

[the-satellite]

Look if you take "Deacon hates Danse even post Blind Betrayal when he's trying to make a turn around" you also gotta take "Deacon's a big fucking hypocrite". It's the same thing same object you can't get one or the other. It's both.

#nova transmits #fallout 4 #fo4 danse #fo4 deacon #like mr unorganized lynch mob that doesnt even give you military benefits to entice you had any fucking room to talk about being a fuck up #deacon needs more of his severe emotional problems to blow up directly in his face and make him deal with himself #hits him with a fucking newspaper. you cant! project your issues! with who you were! onto danse! stop it! #for the audience. i love deacon hes literally the Official Companion for my sosu. my favorite #i especially love him when hes fucked up and complicated

[unopenablebox]

apparently yelling at your parents for posting a bunch of reactionary shit on facebook about how the student protestors are all pathetic snowflakes because they eat gluten-free food and have blue hair and pronouns actually works sometimes? which is good. but oh my god

#unfortunately my mom has adopted a reflexively defensive position about the state of israel due to the fact that she is uh. #surrounded by incredibly virulent unchecked antisemites in her professional context #despite the fact that she is in fact deeply condemnatory of all actual actions the israeli military has actually taken in the last year #and when confronted will in fact redevelop her actual positions once she remembers that i am not antisemitic and will not #argue that all ashkenazi israelis should be expelled back into poland because they deserve it for killing jesus. #like there are positions i'm not going to talk them around on and don't really think it's worth trying to #but i can at least remind them that they are in fact not benefiting anyone by repeating talking points from a fucking bari weiss publicatn #about the intrinsic spoiled stupidity of student protestors and how it is exemplified by their frivolous homosexuality which #by its nature trivializes the struggles of the hostages. #they don't even believe that! they even listened to my arguments for why i don't think the student protests are #astroturfed or unsalvageably entangled with antisemitism and responded in a normal thoughtful way taking my points into account #but how come i have to monitor their facebook usage in order to remind them of their actual opinions every two months #you can't keep it together long enough to remember that you hate bari weiss?? fucksake #box opener

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

Military Ball Benefit, Ninth Company Virginia Coast Artillery (Blues Armory), January 19th, 1918, 8:30 to 12:00 O'clock PM., Admission 50 Cents.

#Va #Virginia #1918 #military #dance #benefit #ephemera

[scimmiabird]

I love my ASL class so much, it's such a beautiful language and community, and omg I am literally so lucky to get to learn this kinda stuff. I wish more of you guys could because it's honestly so amazing, and useful!!

I've literally only been learning for like 4 months but it's great. Me and my sister practice together all the time. If I had more resources honestly I'd do it even more.

I love learning about the history of the Deaf community and I only know the surface level, but I really wish more people knew. Seriously!! It's exciting and like, connecting. It's a shame it's so glossed over.

More people should learn ASL.

#honestly ASL should be taught in schools from the start IMO. #Like #why not?? america seriously #it would even benefit the military if you think about it #like a combat zone that you don't have to speak so it's less likely you'll be intercepted #and of course that's not why i think it should be taught #im not fond of the millitary #but it goes to show that america not teaching ASL standardized is a dumb idea to begin with #if any of you have recorces that could help me learn I would Loooove fr pleaseeee #deaf #im not deaf but im tagging it there so maybe people see it?? sorry if its a community tag

[state-of-franklin]

All the people that think Oppenheimer is a propaganda movie actually make me laugh, because it is propaganda! Just not the nationalistic/patriotism kind.

It’s literally about a guy that lives to regret his most renowned invention, who wished more than anything it wouldn’t become a weapon, and when faced with his own guilt is told to suck it up and fake a smile.

This movie is trying to get the audience to understand the plight of the scientist that feels like he invented death. He was manipulated time after time by the US military and government, and truly was used for his genius more than he “used” anyone.

It is a 3 hour movie of pain, regret, and opposition between scientific progress and moral implications of doing so.

Don’t shit on a fucking movie because you read a tumblr post about it. Do your own fucking research and maybe go see the movie before you lay such harsh judgement on it.

#oppenheimer #oppenheimer movie #cillian murphy #propaganda #nationalism #fascism #movie review #it’s actually a truly thought provoking and interesting movie #it is one of the only movies that brings to light the idea that the US government is using scientists #and by doing so teaches the wide majority of us citizens that they cannot just blindly trust the military and their government #it teaches a new narrative that the old folks of this country haven’t considered because they’re so knee deep in nationalism #really this movie has so many benefits #but first and foremost it is a biography #(or narrated autobiography?) #but like it’s also not #ALSKDKKDKFKFKF kd #please just go see the movie before you make huge jusegenent passes on it

[simplyghosting]

Looking into the history of the 3-1-1 TSA rule (because I'm annoyed) and while the event that started it (2006 UK) could have been bad, it gets summed up with just...pay attention. That's it.

Like if the security/TSA guys just look there's no reason you shouldn't be able to carry larger liquids. There are x-ray machines now. You can't hide batteries in a soda bottle. Gosh just sniff the container. "But what if the liquid actually is dangerous. That's not safe." Security is not meant to be a safe job and should not be so tyrannical it punishes innocents. "It will make the lines longer." Hire more people and open more lanes then. "That requires more funding." Take it out of the NSA spending.

My feelings on when they tell me I can't bring a tub peanut butter on a plane because it's a "liquid."

#ghost posts #not happy things #i'm so annoyed #maybe i'm just being insensitive but i already hear enough garbage about the security people in the schools around here #like beating up kids trying to get AWAY from a fight #or being so lazy they don't go to help #i hear people that they sign up for the military to get benefits and then get mad when they're sent out #like idk man i feel like everyone is acting nuts #had a friend that worked in tsa that said he saw them steal stuff from passengers by saying they couldn't take it on the flight i'm so tire #i don't think every security person is corrupt but there are systems in place that are easy to abuse on various levels #be it petty or political

[deathbypufferfish]

I feel fucking feral when I see another girl from my grade getting engaged to some military dude I literally want to jump through the screen and scream in her face to run

#puffer talks #sorry if you are in love but men marry in the military a lot of the time for the benefits ☺️ #PLEASE GIRL WE ARE 20 PLEAASEEEEE #literally every girl from my grade or one above who has gotten married or engaged it has been to a military guy #screaming into the abyss

[menderash]

david animorphs is the way that he is, an entitled, privileged child who was raised to inherently believe some people are worth less than others, bc he was raised by a cop. ms applegate does not miss.

#jake was raised in a religious jewish household #rachel was raised by a lawyer but shes fucked up for different reasons i think #marco was raised as the brown child of a white single father in poverty #cassie is gestures at her whole domestic life. dope. #and ax IS a military brat and nepotism baby who benefits from his culture's fascism #BUT hes autistic and a freak so it kinda evens out. #i was gonna say HIS MOM IS A POET AND HIS DAD IS AN ANDALITE MINORITY but then i remembered thats cav's fanfiction and not canon