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Bridgewater Veteran McCormick Sees Vet Problems Un-addressed and Repeating

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Mark Melin
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David McCormick, a Gulf War combat veteran and president of Bridgewater Associates, was reading a newspaper article about the troubles veterans face coming back into the work force when he made a realization. From this he draws the conclusion to help vets re-enter civilized society it will take a village to make a difference.

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Veteran problems from long ago don’t sound any different than today

“On their return home after their long absence from society, and from industry, many of these brave men . . . find it difficult to get the opportunity at once to return to their old avocations,” the newspaper article read. “Their places in the workshops or elsewhere are filled...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.