A 2020 Department of Veterans Affairs study on the Department of Defense’s Transition Assistance Program, or TAP, the program responsible for preparing 250,000 service members every year to leave the military, found that “many veterans did not understand the magnitude of the issues they might face when transitioning to civilian life.”
DoD-run TAP programs are congressionally mandated for service members. Some programs, like SkillBridge, consistently get good reviews from service members who know well ahead of time what future careers interest them.
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