This issue of an annual journal contains 20 papers reflecting on the efforts of U.S. employment security and training programs to meet the needs of veterans. Part I, "National Perspective," contains five essays: "Policy Issues for Veteran Job Training Programs" (Martin F. Smith); "Cognizant Ramblings: Superfluous Lags the Veteran on the Stage (Vanity of Human Wishes)" (Larry W. Rivers); "Women Veterans...Toward the Year 2000 and Beyond" (Diana D. Danis); "Civilian Occupational Labor Market Information System: A Project to Help Veterans" (Gary Crossley); and "NVTI--Three Years from Ground Zero" (Priscilla Donovan). Papers in part II, "Local Perspective," are the following: "The Employment Characteristics of the Disabled Vietnam-era Veterans in Idaho" (Robert Michael Wilson);"Views from a Local Office" (Gerald L. Kessel); "A Survey of Veteran Staff Members' Perceptions of Veterans Service Needs" (Ken West); "Making Title 38 Work from the Bottom Up" (Charles M. Kerns); and "Veterans Workforce 2000 Issues: The Tank Driver's Dilemma" (John Stine). Ten essays make up Part III, on "Local Office Programs"; they are: "Employment Security/Armed Forces Network" (James F. Wallace); "The Veterans Representative and the Armed Forces Recruiter--An Employment Counseling Approach" (Jorge B. Gonzales); "JTPA IV-C for Veterans in Florida" (Dee Campbell); "Reintegrating the Homeless Veteran through Employment" (Joy Jenko); "San Antonio Homeless Veteran Placement Project" (Arthur R. Underwood, Jr.); "Compensated Work Therapy" (Peggy Black, David Knapp); "The Texas Job-Search Seminar Counseling Connection" (Don Watson); "Vocational Information Profile: Innovations in Employment Counseling" (Kenneth D. Freeman); "Veterans in the Work Force in the Year 2000" (Alonzo Philmore); and "CARS and CAP: Employment Programs for Veterans that Produce Results" (Jim Grass). (KC)