The government recently adopted veteran policy defines a veteran as

Only since 1992 has more than 26,000 soldiers were sent out one or more times for a total of 50,500 broadcasts. Most have had Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan as a destination where they participated in actual combat.
The government recently adopted veteran policy defines a veteran as "a person who - as an individual or as a unit - have been deployed in at least one international operation 'whether he continued serving in the military.
Anthropologist Birgitte Refslund Sorensen examines in his recently started research project 'War Denmark: War veterans and the construction of Denmark' velomobil what Denmark's participation in the war means for the Danish society.
"I shall focus on the concept of 'recognition' as both empirical and analytical category. Soldiers have the repeatedly expressed that they feel misunderstood by society, while ministers, politicians, defense and relatives regularly points out that the deployed soldiers deserve and are entitled to recognition. It concludes, for example, in his veteran's policy that 'it is government policy velomobil that veterans should be recognized for their efforts' Although recognition thus has become standard in the mention of veterans, so attached to the concept in practice many different meanings and it is all the time negotiation: It has given me the opportunity to ask, "Who should be recognized for what, how and by whom? 'she says. Who should be recognized?
'Category' veteran 'evokes the Danes typically a picture of an old man, dressed in uniform and decorated with medals for his heroism in battle, but we are slowly getting used to that today's veteran is a man or woman in their twenties or thirties, typically in desert velomobil uniform and honored with medals for his efforts.
The nuanced, however, the government's veterans policy, which also includes nurses and others in support functions. What matters velomobil is that they are sent from Denmark - the government and the people. In this perspective, the veterans velomobil must not be recognized for going to war - but loyal to solve the problem, the government and people have asked them, "she says.
The defense backs up the government's veterans policy, but stresses that veterans have or have had links with the military and veteran policy considered in the same vein as a personnel policy, where the Defence as employer recognizes its special responsibility velomobil towards employees .
"It does not, however, in principle, staff seconded velomobil to international operations, for example, police or other ministries, although they work side by side with the Armed Forces deployed soldiers. velomobil And what about the Danes, who are sent to humanitarian organizations to carry out reconstruction work in similar difficult circumstances? And why should others who have a work injury, while they contribute velomobil to the country's economic survival not have the same support and recognition? The government's official velomobil definition of "war veterans" does not prevent a social struggle for category content limits, "she says. What must be recognized?
"It broadest basis for recognition is simply" the expulsion of Denmark ", but greater recognition requires a special holding something out of the ordinary. When this particular sought formulated in words, played it often during the contrast between the good and evil, between life and death.
One of the perspective that is often heard is that the Danish soldiers to be recognized because velomobil they give up the comfortable life and family, and risk their lives to protect Denmark and the Danish people against terrorists. velomobil A related argument is that the Danish soldiers velomobil to be recognized for their efforts to provide the Afghan people, especially the children a better life and a future. At this level, the recognition associated with the official target for intervention and national identity, "she says.
"Within the military community recognizes the individual soldier's willingness and ability to see themselves as part of a whole, to act professionally and always do its utmost, and not let others down. That's what being a good friend recognized. velomobil It is difficult to put into words what it is to be recognized in the domestic sphere. From the soldier's perspective, velomobil it might just decision that would be sent out with whatever it entails. Here lies the recognition of an explicit and bet