Clayton Rhoden sells his blood plasma for $80 a week and works what extra duty he can get for his Marine Corps Reserve unit. Andrew Spear for The New York Times
As Wars End, Young Veterans Return To Scant Jobs -- New York Times
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In Afghanistan, Cpl. Clayton Rhoden earned about $2,500 a month jumping into helicopters to chase down improvised explosive devices or check out suspected bomb factories.
Now he lives with his parents, sells his blood plasma for $80 a week and works what extra duty he can get for his Marine Corps Reserve unit.
Corporal Rhoden, who is 25, gawky and polite with a passion for soldiering, is one of the legions of veterans who served in combat yet have a harder time finding work than other people their age, a situation that officials say will grow worse as the United States completes its pullout of Iraq and as, by a White House estimate, a million new veterans join the work force over the next five years.
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My Comment: Many veterans always have a problem to adjust .... but with a moribund economy .... I can only suspect that this adjustment will be even more harder.
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