For some veterans, the civilian job market is unwelcoming: “Just having my military experience was not enough”
Phillip Slaughter left the army after 18 years and found a job similar to the one he had in uniform: behind the wheel of a truck. Instead of towing food and bullets through war zones, he hauled packages for FedEx. It wasn’t what he wanted to do. The work made his post-traumatic stress disorder worse. …