Veterans and Farmers Can Make an Ideal Team

Jul 9, 2019 | HudsonValley360
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Imagine you’re an Army veteran returning from tours of duty in Afghanistan relatively unscathed physically but burdened by post-traumatic stress disorder, and you have an excellent performance record, but you are limited to combat-related skills that aren’t relevant on the outside. As a civilian, you’ll probably have to take any job available. That’s the situation many veterans face when they return home and find no jobs that suit their specialized skills as they make the transition from military to civilian life. A program to retrain veterans for civilian jobs is on the horizon, but this one has a difference: It’s designed to train veterans in the skills they need to transition to jobs in agriculture.