David “Goat” Endersby missed the camaraderie of the Marine Corps when he retired, and to fill the void, he joined the Warrior Brotherhood Motorcycle Club, with the motto “Vets helping vets.”

At the height of Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the U.S. Army needed more people, and called on other branches to fill in using the Individual Augmentee program, in which individuals are pulled from commands in the U.S. and deploy on their own to augment units overseas.

An Iraq War veteran and double leg amputee, former Army Sgt. Ryan Major, has found physical and emotional healing by kayaking with a non-profit organization called Team River Runner.

A Washington native, Adrea Benedetti never would have gone to college if it weren’t for the GI Bill. He dropped out of high school at 16 and three years later was recruited to join the Army. Now, he is completing his bachelor’s at the University of Maryland University College.