that they see what they did in the service is transferable to a civilian job, help them with any training or certification or whatever they need to do that so they don t come home and start literally over with no job. why is it i don t totally understand that. i did read in some of the research that, for instance, meadic can t come home and get a job as a paramedic. it s crazy. we have men and women who serve on the ground in afghanistan 24/7 in the most severe medical conditions serving as medics, come home and they can t even drive an ambulance or service an emt. they have to start all over at the very beginning. they get no course credit, no experience credit. no credit. so in order to get credentials to do that p. that s right. certification or licenses. i ve introduced legislation to begin that process, to get the
go on the ground in iraq or afghanistan, work as a medic, fix electronic equipment, drive a truck, do incredible logistics work, and then think that has nothing do with the rest of my life. we have to work to make sure that they see what they did in the service is transferable to a civilian job, help them with any training or certification or whatever they need to do that so they don t come home and start literally over with no job. why is it i don t totally understand that. i did read in some of the research that, for instance, a medic can t come home and get a job as a paramedic. why not? it s crazy. we have men and women who serve on the ground in iraq and afghanistan 24/7 in the most severe medical conditions serving as medics, come home, and they can t even drive an ambulance or service an emt. they have to start all over at the very beginning. they get no course credit, no experience credit.
today, serving those who serve with the vice chief of staff of the army peter kror relly. veterans advocates with tim tats and paul rykofp. chairman of the senate veterans commit patty murray. paying for veterans is a cost of war. and an iraq veteran i ve been told welcome home dozens of times. i met a vietnam vet who had never been told that once. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. this afternoon president obama visits joplin, missouri, the town devastated by tornadoes. joining us this morning from joplin, governor jay mixon. give us an update, the number of confirmed dead, what s the situation with the morgue and how many do you still have missing? we ve got that unaccounted for number overnight down to 44 now. and throughout the night once again troopers were making that most difficult visit to families in this region notifying them of a loss of their family members. we a we ve still got a significant level of work to do to make sure because