VFA Resources

VFA Source Reports

• Combat Studies Institute, Contemporary Operations Study Team:
  • On Point II: Transition to the New Campaign: The United States Army in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, May 2004—January 2005 (June 2008)
• Commission on the National Guard and Reserves:
  • Final Report to Congress and the Secretary of Defense (January 2008)
• Community Counseling of Maine, Inc.:
  • Self-reported Mental Health Status and Needs of Iraq War Veterans in the Maine National Guard (March 2007)

• Congressional Budget Office:
  • The All-Volunteer Military: Issues and Performance (July 2007)
• Defense Science Board Task Force:
  • Deployment of Members of the National Guard and Reserve in the Global War on Terrorism (September 2007)
• Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health:
  • An Achievable Vision: Report of the Department of Defense Task Force on Mental Health (June 2007)
  • The Department of Defense Plan to Achieve the Vision of the DOD Task Force on Mental Health (September 2007)
• Department of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness:
  • Report to Congress on Administrative Separations Based on Personality Disorder: Fiscal Years 2002 thru 2007 (June 2008)
• Government Accountability Office:
  • Defense Health Care: Additional Efforts Needed to Ensure Compliance with Personality Disorder Separation Requirements (October 31, 2008)
  • Defense Health Care: Oversight of Military Services’ Post-Deployment Health Reassessment Completion Rates Is Limited (September 4, 2008)
  • DOD and VA: Preliminary Observations on Efforts to Improve Care Management and Disability Evaluations for Servicemembers (February 27, 2008)
  • DOD Health Care: Mental Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Screening Efforts Implemented, but Consistent Pre-Deployment Medical Record Review Policies Needed (May 2008)
  • Homeland Defense: Steps Have Been Taken to Improve U.S. Northern Command’s Coordination with States and the National Guard Bureau, but Gaps Remain (April 2008)
  • Homeland Defense: U.S. Northern Command Has Made Progress but Needs to Address Force Allocation, Readiness Tracking Gaps, and Other Issues (April 2008)
  • Military Personnel: A Strategic Approach Is Needed to Address Long-term Guard and Reserve Force Availability (February 2, 2005):
  • Military Personnel: Army Needs to Better Enforce Requirements and Improve Record Keeping for Soldiers Whose Medical Conditions May Call for Significant Duty Limitations (June 10, 2008)
  • Military Personnel: DOD’s and the Coast Guard’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Programs Face Implementation and Oversight Challenges (August 2008)
  • Military Personnel: Improvements Needed to Increase Effectiveness of DOD’s Programs to Promote Positive Working Relationships between Reservists and Their Employers (August 15, 2008)
  • Military Readiness: Impact of Current Operations and Actions Needed to Rebuild Readiness of U.S. Ground Forces (February 14, 2008)
  • VA and DOD Health Care: Administration of DOD’s Post-Deployment Health Reassessment to National Guard and Reserve Servicemembers and VA’s Interactions with DOD (January 25, 2008)
  • VA Health Care: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Screening and Evaluation Implemented for OEF/OIF Veterans, but Challenges Remain (February 8, 2008)

• Interim Report to Congress
  • Special Working Group on Transition to Civilian Employment of National Guard and Reserve Members Returning from Deployment in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (November 2007)
• Institute of Medicine, Committee on Gulf War and Health
  

• Volume 7: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury (December 2008)
  

• Journal of the American Medical Association:
  • Child Maltreatment in Enlisted Soldiers’ Families During Combat-Related Deployments (August 1, 2007)
  • Longitudinal Assessment of Mental Health Problems Among Active and Reserve Component Soldiers Returning From the Iraq War (November 14, 2007)
  • Mental Health Problems, Use of Mental Health Services, and Attrition From Military Service After Returning From Deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan (March 1, 2006):
• Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen
  • Chairman’s Guidance for 2008-2009 (November 2008)
    
• Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
  • The Impact of Deployment Length and Experience on the Well-Being of Male and Female Soldiers (April 2005)
• National Governors Association:
  • State Territorial Support for National Guard and Regular Military Members and Their Families (July 30, 2008)
• New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs:
  • Mental and Physical Health Status of New Jersey National Guard Troops Prior to Deployment to Iraq (undated)
• New England Journal of Medicine:
  • Acknowledging the Psychiatric Cost of War (July 1, 2004)
  • Combat Duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, Mental Health Problems, and Barriers to Care (July 1, 2004)
  • Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone (May 19, 2005)
  • Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in U.S. Soldiers Returning from Iraq (January 31, 2008)

• New York State Health Foundation:
  • Initiative for Returning Veterans and Their Families (March 2008)
• President’s Commission on Care for America’s Returning Wounded Warriors
  • Serve, Support, Simplify (July 2007)
• RAND:
  • Analyzing—and Influencing—How the Department of Veterans Affairs Allocates its Health Care Dollars (2005)
  • Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008)
• Research Advisory Council on Gulf War Veterans’ Illness
  • Gulf War Illness and the Health of Gulf War Veterans: Scientific Findings and Recommendations (November 17, 2008)
• Senator Barack Obama:
  • Congressional Record Statement in Support of Comprehensive, National Adjustment Study (March 27, 2007)
• U.S. Army:
  • Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT)-I (March 25, 2004)
  • MHAT-II (January 30, 2005)
  • MHAT-III (May 29, 2006)
  • MHAT-IV (November 17, 2006)
  • MHAT-V (February 14, 2008)
  • The Traumatic Brain Injury Task Force (January 17, 2008)
• U.S. Department of Labor:
  • Employment Situation of Veterans (April 2008)
• Veterans Affairs, Office of Inspector General:
  • Follow-Up Healthcare Inspection: VA’s Role in Ensuring Services for Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom Veterans after Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation (May 1, 2008)