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The Military Transition Assistance Program (TAP)?
Are you aware that the Current Transition Assistance Program Can not work?
resume writing - The Transition Assistance Program (TAP), which was initiated in Congress back in the early 1990's, isn't working. Proof that it is no longer working are visible in unemployment rates among veterans for one thing, there is however something of greater importance. The transition assistance program doesn't continue what our all volunteer service promised; a life of continued self-improvement.
Did you know that chronic unemployment persists among former service members and also at greater rates than equivalent demographic groups? Unemployment figures for returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans was at 21.6 % in '09 and then climb.
Did you know that unemployment can trigger a worsening and progressively downward spiral that leads to major depression and homelessness? Some estimates say veterans account for 25 to Forty percent with the homeless population.
resume writing - Were you aware that the thought of the transition assistance program, at its inception, was lacking a “single” agency designated because of its ownership? No-one wanted it. Three separate agencies were assigned responsibility for military transition: DOD, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Labor. Functional responsibility is shared with 50 states. Funds are moved to each state to use veterans' employment assistance centers at state employment agencies. The legislation diffuses program responsibility!
Finally, are you aware that on an annual basis, more than 200,000 military personnel re-enter civilian life from a lot more than 300 bases?
It's clear that does not only will we are having issues; a program that does not work. We now have hundreds of thousands of an individual, who have served their country in addition to their families that have supported them, left hung out to dry! There's been a failure and there is a better method to assist our patriots.
The military or former military would be the only ones able to solving this challenge. The military attracts a man or woman using the promise that service will lead to self-improvement. Going once we used to “pick-up” a brand new “mob” of recruits. To affirm our oath of commitment we would recite the Drill Instructor's Pledge. For the best of my memory it is going, “These recruits are entrusted to my care. I will train them to good my ability. I'll develop them into smartly disciplined, physically top fit, basically trained Marines thoroughly indoctrinated for each other of Corps and country. I am going to demand of them and demonstrate by my own example the greatest standards of non-public conduct, morality and professional skill.” The military fulfills its promise, and the service member is on an upward spiral of self-improvement - until a determination is manufactured never to re-enlist.
interview coaching - When one decides to finish their active service, everything changes. The service member gets to be a short-timer. Will no longer part of they, he/she is processed out and placed into a systems and a world to “transition”. He/she goes home, alone and with no with the close cohesion, loyalty, camaraderie and self-knowledge he/she had as a member of one of the most effective teams on the planet. That self-improvement process that began at the time of recruitment and extended throughout active duty STOPS!
Like a former active duty service member I offer a solution. Let's create an environment, composed of former service members, that first and foremost provides awareness, encouragement and love to our fellow patriots as well as their families. Let's provide resources and systems that empower these phones take inventory of who they may be and just what they need.
If anything was learned while serving on active duty it was this, “We can confidently face and overcome adversity.” Let's remind our siblings that everything they must be successful not in the military, they already possess inside.
