Officials from Yale-New Haven Hospital and the U.S. Army jointly announced Tuesday an effort to reincorporate ex-soldiers more successfully into society. Under the agreement, the hospital will become one in a growing list of official partners of the Army’s Partnership for Youth Success, or PaYS, whereby a soldier’s occupational abilities in the military are matched with potential job opportunities in the private sector. When a soldier leaves the military with an honorary discharge, he picks a company and a position, and the company promises to interview him for the job.

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