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News: May 2016

Month: May 2016

My Huts for Vets Experience

Life After Huts for Vets By Erik Villaseñor Spending three days in the wilderness surrounded by vast mountain ranges, lush forests, and running streams can do amazing things to your mind, body and soul. Mix in the camaraderie of a small group of veterans led

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Women in the Military

Women in the Military A Perspective from Vietnam By Lt. Col. Janis Nark, Huts For Vets The first military women to arrive in Vietnam were nurses. It was 1956. As the American presence in Southeast Asia grew, so too did the number of young women

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Destructive love

Destructive love By: Jose Oscar Roman – HFV Alumn I am in a relationship of destruction and I am at peace with it. I am not looking to escape this torture because this has become my norm. I am in a continued nightmare from which

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Silver Bird of Metal

Silver Bird of Metal By: Jose Oscar Roman – HFV Alumn (I wrote this while awaiting my flight to return back home from Huts for Vets.) Here I am being kidnapped back in to the wilderness. I await here in my ocean blue seat facing

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Wilderness Therapy on the 10th Mountain Trails

“A wilderness area may well have more psychological importance than hundreds of beds in a mental hospital.” – Rod Nash Wilderness therapy programs are springing up around the US as alternatives to institutional treatment settings. Researchers have discovered that therapeutic relationships are often forged more

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