James Griffith U.S. Army National Guard, USA (ret.)

James Griffith served 35 years in the active component and reserve component of the Army and, most recently, as an Army research psychologist assigned to the National Guard Bureau to study factors placing soldiers at risk for suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence, and so on. His 50þ peer-reviewed publications have examined recruitment, retention, and readiness of reserve soldiers, and now, their adaptation
to war and reintegration. Colonel Griffith received his PhD in applied social psychology from The Claremont Colleges and is a graduate of the US Army War College. He now serves as a research fellow at the National Center for Veterans Studies at the University of Utah.