29 Hard Truths About Getting Your First Civilian Job Hard truth is better than kind fiction when it comes to veteran jobs and spouse employment. Defense industry veterans and...
Veteran Employment: 5-Step Guide for Gaining a Security Clearance What's the process of getting a security clearance? We guide you through it step by step.
How to Be Impartial in Performing Official Duties Executive branch employees must consider their impartiality when specific parties may affect personal and business...
What to Know About Inactive/Lapsed Security Clearance A security clearance becomes inactive once your service ends.
Air Force Cuts Back on Credentialing Opportunities The recent success of many credentialing programs has depleted funding for the AF COOL program.
From Camo to the Conference Room: Navigating Civilian Executive Communication Whether you served four or 40 years, you learned to speak in a style and narrative that serves the purpose of military duty...
Security Clearance: Defense Industrial Personnel Follow this five-step process to get clearance from the Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO).
Examples of Security Clearance Decisions Knowing why people in different or special circumstances were approved or denied security clearance will help your own...
What You Should Know About Interim Security Clearances An interim security clearance is based on the completion of minimum investigative requirements and granted on a temporary...
Federal Resume Lab: Free Coaching Session for Veterans and Spouses Writing a Federal Resume Military folks ought to be issued lollipops, gumdrops and cherry pie for every minute we stick with the federal resume...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...