Estimated reading time: 6 minutes I never learned to code. I am not a tech guy. While on active duty, if my team saw me on the computer doing anything besides writing a report or working on a slideshow, they would tell me to quickly stop what I was doing because most likely I was […]
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Trigger warning: prepare to have your ego bruised and a hard slap of reality beat you across the face in this post. This is some hard-hitting real advice for veterans. If you think you are going to walk off base on your last day in the military with a DD-214 in […]
I was on the phone recently with a friend who left the army within the last year. We were just casually catching up. I was informing him about a new business idea I had and he was sharing his experiences of clerking for a federal judge. Our conversation led to my transition. At this point, […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute This has been a long time in the works, and the moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. If you like good memes and you are associated with the military, you’ve likely run across Sitreps2Steercos. Well know the curtain is being peeled back and we get to meet the […]
Raleigh left the Marines and didn’t know anything about about corporate America. But after using some tenacity and problem-solving built from the military, he found his way into a sales role and found that not only was he good at it, but he liked it. Seeing that veterans have lots of attributes that can make […]
Estimated reading time: 19 minutes This post was written by Yinon Weiss and originally published on MilitaryToBusiness and shared with consent and approval. Yinon is a former Army Special Forces Officer and graduate of Harvard Business School. He is also the founder of RallyPoint and Car Dash, and is the current Founder and CEO of Stress-Free […]
Sean Ambriz never felt like he was anything special.. He still doesn’t. But enough people told him that he had a unique story and it deserved to be shared. So he sat down and wrote his book,Ghosts of the Valley. He had no intention of it becoming anything big. He just wanted to put the […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute Adam Evans is an Air Force spouse who had to give up his career when his family moved to a new duty station. Sounds like a familiar story, right? A business professor by profession, Adam decided to put his expertise to work in working on a business. After seeing a […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute Mike Donnelly left the SEAL teams and didn’t know exactly what he wanted to do. Most of his friends were going into federal agencies and into contract work, but he knew that he wanted to pursue an entrepreneurial path. He’s started a number of companies, but his most recent is […]
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Adam is a veteran who reached out to the site and wanted to share his experiences with accessing VA benefits with other veterans. As a note, Adam references VSOs as a terrific source of assistance to veterans navigating VA benefits. For a full list of VSOs, see HERE. What were […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes This was a JAM-PACKED episode with a ton you are going to love. Jon is a former infantryman who left the Army and went to go get his MBA at the Yale School of Management. But sometime while he was there, he realized that he didn’t think going down the […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes The article was originally published by Allen Sara on his site, Dental Veterans. Allen is a former army infantryman who is now studying dentistry at the University of Michigan. Dentistry and other health care professions (medical school, nursing, physician assistants and nurse practitioners) are typically not at the top of […]
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes This post was originally published by J.P. Snyder. I was 9 years old when I realized I wanted to be a Marine. I was attending a flag retirement ceremony in my hometown in Florida when it happened. My parents took my sister and me to the event, and I remember […]
Before you get out of the military, you first have to BE in the military. Why does someone raise their right hand and join the armed forces? Why does someone knowingly subject themselves to hardship, danger, and uncertainty like that? It’s easy to be cynical and point out the obvious benefits like the GI Bill […]