Many veterans have strong leadership and managerial skills and were given more fiscal and people management responsibility at younger
ages than civilian workers.
Not exact matches
After all, he understands better
than anyone how important resources are to veterans transitioning to
civilian life: Parsons enlisted in the Marines at
age 17, heading to Vietnam straight out of high school.
The latest figures from the UN show that three - quarters of the population are forced to survive in absolute poverty on less
than one dollar a day; over 30 % of all children die before reaching the
age of five and one child now dies of preventable diseases and malnutrition every three minutes (480 every day); overall life expectancy is a mere 45 years and almost a third of the country's population has been displaced by the conflict (some four million
civilians).