Afghanistan veterans
War on Terror survivors
Afghanistan veterans are military personnel who served in Afghanistan, typically during the U.S.-led war from 2001 to 2021.
The term encompasses those who deployed to the country as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and subsequent missions: Afghanistan veterans face unique challenges reintegrating into civilian life.
Like Vietnam veterans before them, they represent a generation shaped by a controversial, prolonged conflict.
- combatArmed hostile engagement
- combat zoneActive military conflict area
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
- PTSDChronic reaction to horrific events
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
service · military · homecoming · welcome home · trauma · moral injury · sacrifice · heroes · wounded · Purple Heart · medals · brotherhood · Army · Kabul · Kandahar · IED · patrol · desert
- veterans groupsAmerican Legion, VFW, post, adjutant, membership drive
- war memoirswar memoirs, wartime memoirs, war stories, war diaries, wartime letters
Afghanistan veteranscivilians
Non-military population
draft dodgers · conscientious objectors · pacifists · military families