Concerned Veterans for America Foundation focuses on educating veterans on resources for PTSD and the hope for healing and thriving after service. We sat down with Miguel Ocegueda, an Army veteran and combat medic, to talk about his own experiences with combat, the...
Post-traumatic stress disorder is nothing new. PTSD has been a defining injury of war since ancient times, manifesting in different ways and earning itself different names along the way. In just the relatively brief history of the United States, what is now known as...
Thomas Buffington is a disabled U.S. Air Force veteran who served his country honorably for over nine years. Mr. Buffington suffers from service-related tinnitus and was awarded disability compensation after being honorably discharged. He was recalled to active duty...
Concerned Veterans for America Foundation has been utilizing our Believe in Veterans philosophy to help mobilize veterans and their communities to welcome and support arriving Afghans who were key US partners in our efforts there for the last two decades. As the US...
By John Byrnes, education director and Afghanistan War veteran Like many veterans of Afghanistan, I am struggling with my emotions as I watch what has unfolded in recent days. In 2009, I lost the young Afghan National Police supply sergeant I was mentoring. I had...
