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4 Things Companies Don't Understand About Vets Transitioning From the Military to the Corporate World

4 Things Companies Don't Understand About Vets Transitioning From the Military to the Corporate World
The military is actually a far more complex organization than whatever company a veteran takes a job with.













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CTO at Mark43. Former Air Force and transplant New Yorker.
November 11, 2018 5 min read
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In spite of the reverence that U.S. military veterans inspire in popular culture, we're still a pretty misunderstood bunch. Most civilians assume that we spend our days doing pushups and jumping over walls when we're not in combat, when the reality is that the military is a massive, sophisticated organization, filled with people performing incredibly specialized, and often highly-technical, roles. My time in the Air Force rarely brought me anywhere near a cockpit for instance, but I did spend a lot of my days squinting at computer code.

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