Military Total Institution
The projected outcomes for students enrolled in this course include:
1. Develop a comprehensive understanding of the Military Total Institution.
2. Understand the linkage between the Military Total Institution and veteran
re-‐acculturation problems.
3. Recognizing that many veterans return to the civilian society with the
baggage they acquired from the Military Total Institution
4. Understanding the significance/importance of the need for veterans to be re-
acculturated back into the civilian culture.
5. Be able to identify and understand the problems germane to veterans as they
attempt to re-‐acculturate back into the civilian culture. The veteran who has
left the military is not the same person who initially entered the military.
6. Recognize and address external and internal veteran biases.
7. Learning to look forward, while recognizing the importance of referencing
the past.
8. Resource availability and development.
9. Helping yourself by helping other veterans and their families/significant
others.
10.Re-‐acculturation plan development
That what we assigned to work on and each one of the group should do his own paper and the following ideas should also supported by some sources that I will provide you
o Pizza place/boarding house the name of place that will give the vets opportunity to work.
“We came up with this idea to address the following issues/needs…”
o Less than honorable discharge
o Addiction issues
o Housing needs
o PTSD/TBI/Moral injury (define each)
o Trust issues with civilians
· Issues with family life
Closer look at our proposal
o Name
o Location (Salem—find rental space)
o 501c(3) process
Including board members
o Start-up costs—how will we get this money?
o Cost for rent/down payment… consider a deposit if renting
o Specialty costs
Pizza oven
POS system
Safe
Walk-in or large freezer/cooler
Advertising budget
Printing
Furniture
Tables/chairs for restaurant AND housing
Beds
Shelving/storage
Couch
TV
Misc.
License/food handlers cards
Sponsorship funding for vets who want to transition from pizza and boarding house to their own housing
Electricity
Compensation for vets (create savings account for them?)
Arrange for psychologist—George Fox?
Insurance
o Other things to consider:
Application process for less than honorable discharge applicants
Requirements once hired
Need for accessible (or live-in) psychologist
Teaching responsibility and soft skills
Number of vets in prison
Annual goal
How does this plan address the needs we talked about in the introduction
o Re-introducing to non-military life
o Addressing moral injury/TBI/PTSD with help of psychologist
Discuss the shortfalls of our plan
o We’re limited in who/how many people we can help
· o Risk factors involved in opening a restaurant
These are the sources and you can provide any information you think it will help
Once a Warrior Always a Warrior, Charles W. Hoge, Globe Pequot Press
Adaptive Disclosure, Brit T. Litz, Leslie Lebowitz, Matt J. Gray, and William P. Nash, The Guilford Press.
Shade it Black: Death and After in Iraq, Jess Goodell with John Hearn, Casemate
The professor asked us to come up with ideas or program that might help the veterans when they come back from the war to avoid life’s difficulties and that what we did.
