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Military Transition For Dummies

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By Angie Papple Johnston — 2025

This isn’t your average military transition book. It goes far beyond how to write a resume and find a job by providing you with all the guidance you need to successfully reenter the civilian world. Whether you’ve served three years or thirty, this is the book for you. See more...

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It is Critical to Find Your Purpose First

The process to uncover your purpose after a career in military service takes great introspection.

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Veterans Struggle with Issues that Are Often Invisible to Others

Thousands of veterans who served in the wars that began after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks struggle with issues that are often invisible to those around them. Some are suffering from health problems and trauma, and others from feelings of displacement and alienation.

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Fighting with Another Purpose

Soldiers are always supposed to be thinking. That’s what West Point teaches its cadets, who are officers in training. You’re supposed to question the orders you’re given, to see whether they conform to the Geneva Conventions and the laws of war.

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Second Act of Service: Veterans Find Work and Purpose in the National Park Service | NBC News

Veterans make up 5.9% of the American working age population. But in the National Park Service, veterans make up 26% of the workforce.

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Sometimes the Best Medicine for a Veteran Is the Company of Another Veteran

Veterans are molded by military culture—a unique set of values, traditions, language and humor, with unique subcultures. It has enough consistency across different branches, ranks and time periods to make most veterans feel a kinship.

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Veterans Need Help Becoming Civilians Again

Our treatment of troops returning from combat has led to a culture of permanent disability. They deserve better.

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We Are All in This Together

Jack was wounded in Vietnam after landing in a hot LZ. He lost some of his Marines that day and after returning home, grieved their loss by turning to drugs and alcohol.

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A Veteran Shares Her Tips for Transitioning from Military to Civilian Life | Money | TIME

Leaving the security net of the military can prove difficult for many, follow these steps to ease the stress.

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15 Things Veterans Want You to Know

This is the cornerstone course for PsychArmor and was created to educate anyone who works with, lives with, or cares for our military Veterans. PsychArmor asked hundreds of Veterans what they wanted civilians, employers, educators, health care providers, and therapists to know about them.

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How to Create Community After Your Military Service Is Over

No matter where you move after the military, even if you’re returning to where you grew up, it takes time and effort to find your sense of belonging. Your civilian job likely won’t provide that as easily as the military did—or at all.

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Military to Civilian Re-entry