The Longitudinal Impact of Moral Injury on Combat Soldiers: A Narrative Inquiry Study
[Thesis]
Gosling, David Richard
McAdams, Charles, III
The College of William and Mary
2020
214 p.
Ph.D.
The College of William and Mary
2020
This study explores the confluence of Narrative Inquiry's three commonplaces of temporality, sociality, and place on the experiences of five combat veterans with combat-designated Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) across the lifespan. In particular, the study examines the longitudinal components of Moral Injury (MI) before, during, and after combat operations. Chapter 4 explores the individual narratives of the participants, Chapter 5 examines common narrative threads between participants, and Chapter 6 is the author's subsequent extrapolations on the subject matter given his own experiences as a combat veteran of the Iraq War.