Not only are we veterans unstable basketcases ready to murder people at any moment but we are also homeless according to the media:

Peter Mohan traces the path from the Iraqi battlefield to this lifeless conference room, where he sits in a kilt and a Camp Kill Yourself T-shirt and calmly describes how he became a sad cliche: a homeless veteran.

There was a happy homecoming, but then an accident — car crash, broken collarbone. And then a move east, close to his wife’s new job but away from his best friends.

And then self-destruction: He would gun his motorcycle to 100 mph and try to stand on the seat. He would wait for his wife to leave in the morning, draw the blinds and open up whatever bottle of booze was closest.

He would pull out his gun, a .45-caliber, semiautomatic pistol. He would lovingly clean it, or just look at it and put it away. Sometimes place it in his mouth.

"I don’t know what to do anymore," his wife, Anna, told him one day. "You can’t be here anymore."

Peter Mohan never did find a steady job after he left Iraq. He lost his wife — a judge granted their divorce this fall — and he lost his friends and he lost his home, and now he is here, in a shelter.

He is 28 years old. "People come back from war different," he offers by way of a summary. [Associated Press]

The rest of the article goes on to trumpet the Vietnam stereotype about homeless vets that I once believed and the AP obviously still does.  I quit believing everything I ever learned about the Vietnam War after reading B.G. Burkett’s book Stolen Valor which explains how so many of these so called homeless Vietnam vets are actually frauds and that Vietnam veterans on average actually went on to live more successful lives than those who did not go to Vietnam. 

So obviously I am quite skeptical of this latest claim of a "new generation of homeless vets".  So the first thing I began to wonder is what is the rate of homeless Iraq/Afghanistan vets per capita when compared to the general population?  That just seems like an important piece of information to include in the article I you are claiming this is such a crisis.  Their is roughly 3,500,000 homeless people in the US which has a population of 303,000,000 people.  That comes out to a per capita rate of one homeless person for every 86  people. In the article the VA claims to house 400 veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.  I would assume that the VA has properly checked these guys to make sure they are vets so I think 400 is a safe number to go with.  With a very, very conservative number of 350,000 military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, that comes out to per capita rate of one homeless veteran for every 125 people which is lower than the national average. 

Just seems like pertinent information that should have been included in the article that was conveniently left out.  Is anyone surprised?