<p> The United States (US) military conducts frequent Humanitarian Assistance missions. In terms of numbers of operations, the US military has conducted more of these missions since the end of the Cold War than it has traditional war-fighting missions. Despite the frequency of these operations, the performance of the military is often criticized for not understanding the humanitarian operating environment or failing to make the best use of available assets and resources. </p><p> This research develops models of the information requirements, internal organization and processes that military staffs use when conducting a war-fighting operation and then when conducting a Humanitarian Assistance Operation. The models are then analyzed to determine how the staffs develop Situation Awareness in each case. Specifically, for each case it is determined how the staff perceives, or gathers, information required for performance of the mission; how well the staff comprehends or understands this information; and then how the staff uses the information to predict or project the impact of military actions on the future state of the environment. </p><p> Based on the results of the analysis, proposed changes to the current Humanitarian Assistance model are developed to enable the staff to achieve the same level of Situation Awareness as the staff conducting a war-fighting mission. Additionally, proposals are made for how a staff conducting a war-fighting operation with humanitarian aspects, such as a counter-insurgency operation, can leverage aspects of Situation Awareness development from the Humanitarian Assistance Model.</p>

<p> The purpose of this project was to write a grant to fund a program that utilizes technology to enhance evidence-based treatment for Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) combat veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI). Technology in this case includes the portable technology of laptop computers, tablet computers, MP3 players, and/or smartphones. The target population in the project was the veterans of The Pathway Home, a residential treatment program for OIF/OEF veterans with PTSD. The Pathway Home serves a racially, educationally, and socioeconomically diverse population of male combat veterans of these recent conflicts. A search for funders included consultation with experts as well as Internet database searches. Ultimately, funding was pursued through an unsolicited invitation to a grant application from the Newman's Own Foundation. It was not required to submit this grant application, or secure funding, for successful completion of this project.</p>

<p> This thesis is an exploratory study of the information seeking behavior of junior enlisted United States Army veterans of Operation Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. During this study, twenty-five qualitative interviews were conducted with veterans residing in the vicinity of Fayetteville, North Carolina. Veterans in this study discussed their experiences with the Army Career and Alumni Program (ACAP), the Veterans Affairs Office, non-profit agencies, and extended families as primary sources of information during and after transition using their reported "out date" as a frame of reference. The types of information that the veterans sought prior to transition and currently seek were discussed and compared to analyze their information seeking behavior and how it changes as veterans seek to contextualize and make sense of their place in the civilian world.</p>

<p> The emergence of modern warfare has contributed to greater numbers of service members being exposed to morally ambiguous decisions and actions (e.g., harming civilians and non-combatants). The moral and spiritual implications of serving in combat have gained increasing attention since the new wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (Litz et al., 2009). In particular, the injury to a veteran&rsquo;s beliefs and moral expectations may also affect his or her ability to make meaning from the combat-related stressors and upon previously held religious and spiritual beliefs. In addition, spirituality/religiousness and ability to forgive may predict levels of meaning made in the face of morally injurious experiences. Using the newly developed Moral Injury Questionnaire &ndash; Military Version (MIQ-M; Currier, Holland, Drescher, &amp; Foy, in press), this study examined the relations between morally injurious experiences (MIE), several spiritual/religious factors (daily spiritual experiences, religious coping, and forgiveness), and meaning made in a diverse sample of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who had enrolled in a community college since returning from their war-one deployments. In addition to the MIQ, participants completed the Integration of Stressful Life Events Scale (ISLES; Holland, Currier, Coleman, &amp; Neimeyer, 2010), the Brief Religious Coping Inventory (Brief RCOPE; Pargament, Smith, Koenig, &amp; Perez, 1998), the Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale (Underwood &amp; Theresi, 2002), and forgiveness questions from the Brief Multidimensional Measure of Religiousness/Spirituality [BMMRS; Fetzer Institute/National Institute on Aging (NIA), 1999]. When controlling for demographics, military service factors, and general combat exposure (as assessed by Combat Experiences Scale, CES, Keane et al., 1989), exposure to morally injurious events (higher MIQ scores) uniquely predicted the meaning made of trauma &beta; = -.43. In addition daily spiritual experiences and forgiveness were positively linked with meaning made, &beta; = .35 and .22, respectively, while positive religious coping had an inverse relationship with meaning made, &beta; = -.33. This study provides further support for the critical relationship between morally injurious experiences and meaning made, while also suggesting the need for more research on the importance of spiritual/religious beliefs in the process of meaning-making after combat deployment.</p>

<p> The purpose of this thesis and the overall goal of this grant is to offer support to a community-based hospice agency by creating a position for a veterans' health consultant. The consultant will train staff to the unique care needs of veterans at the end of life by using the National Hospice-Veteran Partnership model from wehonorveterans.org. Upon the completion of an extensive literature review, this writer wrote a grant proposal for Wisteria Hospice, a local community-based hospice agency located in the City of Long Beach. After conducting a thorough funding search, the Archstone Foundation was chosen as the most compatible funding source. This funding source was selected as this foundation provides funds for professional education and training, focusing on end of life care. The actual submission of this grant for funding was not required for successful completion of this project.</p>

<p> The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore the factors that predict active duty student persistence to graduating within four years. Data were taken from a secondary data source from a fall 2009 entering cohort from a university referenced here as Ridgeside University (RU). A binary logistic regression was employed in the analysis of the data. Results of the regression indicated that race, sex, military branch, program major, and primary funding type were significant in some extent in predicting active duty student four year completion. Implications of the results and recommendations for future studies conclude this research.</p>

<p> The purpose of this project was to write a grant to create a workshop for service providers who work with veterans who suffer from complex trauma post-traumatic stress disorder (CT-PTSD) and locate a funding source. Since 2001, there has been an expansion as veterans have left the military. An issue facing veterans is how complex trauma interacts with PTSD. The agency chosen for the workshop is Veterans First in Santa Ana. The funding source is the Wounded Warrior Project. The project was designed to measure the skills and knowledge of service providers working with CT-PTSD. The workshop utilized pre and post surveys to monitor workshop effectiveness, provider understanding, and knowledge implementation. Currently, CT-PTSD is an under developed diagnosis that it is not recognized in the latest version of the DSM-5. With the help of workshops such as this, it is hoped that this will become a recognized veteran issue. Keywords: Veteran, Complex, PTSD, Grant Actual submission of and/or funding of the grant proposal was not required for successful completion of this project.</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Counseling and Educational Psychology, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-10, Section: B, page: 6950. Adviser: Chalmer Thompson. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 21, 2008).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Kelley School of Business, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 19, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: B, page: 7834. Adviser: S. Christian Albright.

<p> The purpose of this study is to analyze existing United States Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) cyber capabilities, identify gaps, and explore the possible need for US Army special operations warfighters to build a robust cyber skill set. This research reviews the current status of cyber-capacity and capability for ARSOF to conduct cyberspace operations, the vulnerabilities that inhibit Army Special Operations Forces from conducting Cyberspace Operations at the Tactical Level, and provides recommendations as to what steps to take to improve the warfighting posture of ARSOF in the cyber domain. </p><p> This research found that it is critical to train and equip Army Special Operators in cyberspace operations at the tactical echelon, in order to compete with adversaries with sophisticated cyber capabilities in combat operations within multi-domain operations. The Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership Education, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy (DOTMLPF-P) analysis is used to study problems to help solve the warfighters cyber capability gaps. In addition, this research reviewed historical cyber attacks to ascertain if the success cyberspace operations proved efficacious when integrated during conflicts. </p><p> This research provided recommendations to support ARSOF in the ways-ahead to contest in today's digital warfare. The Army Special Operations should be able to employ organic cyber capabilities at the tactical echelon with dedicated personnel to compete in modern-day warfare. ARSOF leaders must be prepared to operate with proper authorities and permissions it might gain in the future to employ robust cyberspace operations capabilities. </p><p>