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The present study used the methods of narrative personality psychology to investigate the associations between veterans\u2019 narrative processing of highly stressful and significant events from their military service and postdischarge functioning, including posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). United States military veterans (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\u00a0=\u00a0154; <jats:italic>M<\/jats:italic> age\u00a0=\u00a064.28 years, 86.4% men, 57.8% deployed) completed an online survey in which they wrote narratives about one \u201chighly stressful\u201d and one \u201ckey scene\u201d military service memory and completed questionnaires to assess PTSS, symptoms of depression and anxiety, functional impairment, and well\u2010being. Narratives were coded for personal growth from the experience, themes of agency and interpersonal communion, affective tone, and coherence. In the highly stressful narratives, small\u2010to\u2010moderate negative associations emerged between both growth and agency and PTSS, depression and anxiety, and functional impairment; growth was also modestly positively associated with well\u2010being. In contrast, affective tone and communion were each only associated modestly with one outcome, and coherence with none, and narrative processing of the key scene narrative was not linked with any mental health outcomes. 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