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5 Skills You Didn’t Realize the Military Gave You
So you’re out of the military. Now what? You logically know that you aren’t the first to embark on this great military-to-civilian transition, as thousands of U.S. Veterans separate from the service each year. And you’ve been told countless times by staffers at VA and...
Focusing on What Matters to Transitioning Veterans
Veterans today often need far more support in returning to civilian life than official sources offer. Thousands of active military personnel transition out of service each month — translating to roughly 550 transitions per day. Many of these former service-members...
5 Empowering Tips to Help You Be a More Efficient VA Representative
Choosing to leave behind any type of career comes with a lot of uncertainty. But for Veterans first learning to navigate an unknown civilian world, the many hoops they’re asked to jump through to from the very start can be overwhelming. That’s why the first stop in...
Serving Those Who Served: Strategies for HR and Business Leaders to Better Understand Veterans
America’s 20.6 million Veterans are full of untapped potential that can help nearly any civilian organization thrive. These former service-members bring unique and valuable skill sets from their time in the military to the business and nonprofit worlds, including...
One Marine’s Story of Challenging the Statistics on Veterans
I spent my early 20s in the U.S. Marine Corps as enlisted aircrew aboard UH-1Y helicopters. The military was never meant to be a lifelong career for me. But it was a calling and experience that I knew I needed to fulfill in life after growing up in the shadow of 9/11....