You're absolutely right. It's not something new that we're learning.
I remember that my wife and I watched a movie a few months back called The Best Years of Our Lives. It was produced before the end of World War II. It understood that you needed to combine all the factors of government, community, and family and bring them together to help these veterans transition out of the mentality that they had to be trained in order to carry out the job.
If one is willing to give up one's life, unquestionably one must put immense faith in those social structures around them in the military. Those social structures don't exist outside the military, so we must find a way. I believe we need to have some sort of formal transition course—perhaps a little less intense for those who are not as seriously injured, because they may not have as many adaptation issues, and more intense for those who are more seriously injured and more long-term.
In some cases, we need long-term coaching for these people to help deal with everything from what happens when the light bulb goes out and the person is overwhelmed by the issues of dealing with everyday life in the household after leaving the military to how to deal with a job interview. How do you train the employers to adapt to this person who needs time, some caring, and understanding to integrate back into society?
I really think those can all be arranged.