The below citations are for various scholarly articles considering different aspects of life for those who have served in both the armed services and as a firefighter. Most of these articles will be available to University of Illinois staff, students, and faculty. If you are affiliated with IFSI, the IFSI library may be able to send you one or more of these articles upon request. Otherwise, contact your local library to see if they have access to one or more databases containing these articles, or a subscription to the applicable journal.

Bartlett, B. A., Gallagher, M. W., Vujanovic, A. A., & Tran, J. K. (2019). Military veteran status and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology among urban firefighters: The moderating role of emotion regulation difficulties. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 207(4), 224–231. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000958 

Koeppel, M. D. H., Haddock, C. K., Kaipust, C. M., Jitnarin, N., Day, R. S., Carlos Poston, W. S., & Jahnke, S. A. (2023). Double the Service, Double the Risk? Exploring Military Service as a Risk Factor for Health Outcomes in Firefighters. International Fire Service Journal of Leadership & Management, 17, 7–18.

Mitchell, B. J., Balikos, Y., Seah, T. H. S., Delahanty, D. L., & Coifman, K. G. (2023). Does past military experience impact fear reactivity in active-duty firefighters? Well, it is complicated. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(Suppl 2), S335–S345. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001242

Moore, Brian A., et al. "Behavioral and occupational health in military firefighters: an understudied population." Behavior modification 46.3 (2022): 453-478.