Helping vets adjust

On any given day, it could be a sound, a smell, a face-to-face confrontation. Any of those triggers can bring back the same fears and rush of adrenaline experienced on the front lines of Iraq or Afghanistan. Daily Breeze.

"You get used to all the noise in Iraq, but when I came back here, it was hard for me," said Los Angeles Sheriff's Sgt. Trendel Coley, who was called up for a second deployment, lasting 15 months, with the Army in 2007. "I would hear a horn and ... I had to remind myself I was home and not in the war zone."

Coley is among many local police officers and deputies who have had to cope with readjusting to civilian life after long, and sometimes multiple, deployments.