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“SEALs, Rangers, SF, West Point, Admirals, CEOs.
Google, Amazon, US Congress and Fulbright Scholars, NFL, Olympics, Mercedes Benz.
Is this what’s beyond the uniform? Maybe for 10%.
What about the nameless cooks, mechanics, fuelers, and plumbers who were told to stand guard and wait, either for a VBIED or for nothing. Or the ones who never even deployed and now account for ~45% of the suicide epidemic in our broader DoD/VA community? These people who ask for help and are ready to train and learn and apply themselves in meaningful work back here at home? And yet many of them continue to be overlooked in hiring decisions because they don’t know anyone in the company and their military history is either irrelevant or, worse, could grind against the organization’s non-inclusive, pre-established culture.
What actually happens beyond the uniform? This podcast illustrates a gleaming fantasy reserved for those who had prospects to begin with. West Point grad who was approached by Google? You don’t say.
This isn’t meant to take away the achievements of those who earned them. But there is something deceiving about what’s Beyond The Uniform when so many veterans can’t relate. The experience of what’s beyond the uniform is starkly different than what’s portrayed here for so many others.
This is for those who served our nation in the highest - and most highlighted - capacities. We are proud of and grateful to all of them. But as they are the elite, so are they the fewest.
Is this supposed to be about what happens beyond the uniform? Or is this about what could happen if you had the right MOS, the right degrees of education or degrees of influence and network? Is this an attempt to broadcast a familiar veteran message that we all struggle together and can still have meaningful professions after we leave our boots behind? Or is this the same shining tinsel that, like the VA and many nationwide veteran programs, either overlooks or simply cannot manage the volume of people who - and variety of challenges which - actually need support?
Are we just trying to celebrate the small and much fewer wins here? If that’s the case, the title needs changing. Because what happens beyond the uniform for a silent majority is more struggle than triumph.
I know veterans with MBAs, professional certifications of all kinds, and years of leadership experience and team development. And they still have a hard time getting jobs after service. So what about all of our soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors without even these credentials and especially without the branded Green Beret or Trident or Stars or rank in the Long Grey Line?
You want to accurately represent the what, the how, and the who beyond the uniform? Check your range card and shift fire. Our friend, the average GI Joe, needs a louder voice.
- 22 a day. Former EOD.”
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03/09/20
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