Veterans get pushed aside: lack of assistance leads to financial bind

Leslie is from the new breed of Marines. Different from my day, she is cute as a button and tough as steel. I am proud to know her. As the only female in her reserve company of 300 combat engineers, she was in the original invasion of Iraq and one of the few women Marines to be awarded the Combat Action Ribbon.

Several of her close friends in the company were killed in action during her combat tour. Leslie got a civil service job with the state where she met and married her husband, Troy, also a former Marine, with deployments to Kuwait and Somalia on his record. After leaving the Marines, Troy continued his service by joining the Pennsylvania National Guard.

 

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