Thoughts and notes on making the transition from military life to civilian work Don't underestimate the power of military experience for executive roles.
Not exact matches
Fear and intimidation doesn't
work in a
civilian organization.»
Then we have eugenics programs, testing of chemicals and radiation on unsuspecting
civilians, slavery, women having no right other than to shut up and stay in the kitchen, children
working in factories... I'm not seeing where we were
doing all that well when we were supposedly so Godly.
Work with allies and supporters throughout the world, find the perpetrators, root out their networks and bring them to justice, but
do not punish innocent
civilians for the actions of others.
Even if you despair of international politics,
do not despair of agencies like the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Caritas, Oxfam and Islamic Relief who
work every day to protect
civilians in their homes or wherever they have fled.
My tweet of Friday April 20, 2018 was typical of the reaction, «Actually Buhari was describing himself - he didn't get a good education and has no certificate; he's lived on the Nigerian state all his life; he doesn't like
work; and he's fixated on Nigeria's oil...» In truth, Buhari has not presented evidence of completing secondary school - in all the elections he contested, including in 2015 he tendered affidavits to INEC and has declined to perform the simple task of providing his school certificate; since he joined the army in 1961, he has been a «ward» of the Nigerian state and served in multiple states as military governor, as Minister of Petroleum and Chairman of NNPC board under illegal military regimes; he was himself an unconstitutional military head of state; he was Chairman of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) under the despotic and thieving dictator, Abacha; and is now back as
civilian president.
«We are
working closely with international partners to ensure that we are
doing all we can to stop the Syrian regime's ability to slaughter
civilians being reinforced through assistance from other countries.»
That should be the
work of the FEDs not the soldiers who put their lives to protect this nation... WTF is wrong with our nation???? Police's not supposed to be Armed force, yet they gave them baracks, Soldiers are not supposed to be around
civilians yet there are baracks around
civilians, Soldiers are not ment to pay POWER bills, Utilities of a whole, show me one country that
does ask their soldiers to pay for power????
«There's always
work to be
done, but a lot of the approach to be taken now is
working with the resources we have,» Mr. de Blasio said, again harkening back to last year's budget, which included increased overtime and moved some tasks to
civilians to free up cops for walking the beat.
Since the 1940s, when the U.S. government began to invest seriously in
civilian research, the
work has been
done largely at the nation's universities and paid for through competitive, temporary grants awarded to individual professors by federal funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
One current challenge his team is
working on is, «How
do you take a lot of reporting on
civilian casualties in a certain area and then make it into a map - based Web site that both provides a lot of information and is actually a research tool — but doesn't
do it in such a way that you basically scare people away from the issue» because it's too complicated or horrific, Bromley says.
And then we have our Stacks Program which are groups of veterans and
civilians that come together within their communities to either
do team building events where they just might go out and get some pizza and hang out or they will go volunteer with another veteran's organization and
do some good
work for veterans within their community.
Women that
did not take arms toiled in industry, transport, agriculture and performed their other
civilian roles,
working double shifts to free up enlisted men to fight and increase military production.
M.I.C. Joseph Zimmer (Jake Abel), who also
works on the team, argues with her worldview — noting that terrorists don't think about
civilian deaths when they are targeting our citizens.
You're starting to show just how little you grasp the ideologies or the situation out there (where my sister is voluntarily
working in a
civilian field hospital so enough of your BS about what the «noble» Taliban
do and don't use - trust me my sis
worked for four years in Gaza and is no mate of the US but even she's disgusted by what the Taliban are prepared to
do.
As both an investigative journalist and a fine - arts photographer, Paglen has been tracking clandestine military operations, such as ostensibly
civilian airplanes that are in fact
doing undercover
work.
And while
civilian light water reactors
do not require that kind of enrichment, new nuclear plants still start out with a huge carbon and energy debt to
work off, which means it is years before they produce more energy than they consumed along the way (I have heard estimates exceeding 15 years when all the construction and fuel cycle energy use is accounted for).
Swann, a
civilian Department of Defense lawyer and former Army judge advocate colonel,
worked on the 9/11 case during the Bush years, as
did Ryan.
Several months ago I was approached by two guys who wanted me to partner with them and process all of the business from their Afghanistan website for
civilian contractors
doing work there.
It's challenging to compare the
work a service member
did while in Afghanistan to a
civilian position here.
Step 1: Examine How Military Experience Can Translate to a
Civilian Career «Student veterans who have done a certain job in the military need to analyze how it can translate to the world of civilian work,» says T
Civilian Career «Student veterans who have
done a certain job in the military need to analyze how it can translate to the world of
civilian work,» says T
civilian work,» says Troutman.
There is more
work to be
done to ensure Veterans are supported as they transition from military to the
civilian careers.
they ask the most inane questions that you normally expect at an interview like «what was your favorite class in college, what was your least» «Have you ever
worked for the government if so what branch and what was your highest rank» — ummm not everything has a branch and
civilians don't have ranks.
For example, an IT network administrator
does almost the same
work in the military as they would in the
civilian workforce, but use almost completely different terminology.
These
civilian jobs come under the Federal Civil Service and employees
do many of the same kinds of
work and receive the same wages and benefits as their counterparts in the FAA or other federal government departments and agencies.
While it may seem as though military experience and
civilian work experience don't correlate, in reality, many of the skills a person obtains in the armed forces are highly transferrable to other
work situations.
For example, you may have
worked as a Platoon Commander but this position doesn't reflect the current
civilian job you are seeking.
They might think that they don't have anything transferable, because the
working and living in the military is completely different from
working and living in the
civilian world.
Freedom to manage the facilities and have total authority over the
work done, by using the practices and principals of my 27 + years experience learned both during my twenty year career in the Navy and in the
civilian workforce.