WASHINGTON — The Veterans of Foreign Wars and other veterans advocates urged lawmakers Tuesday to prioritize and improve transition assistance programs that prepare exiting service members for their ...

The Army Transition Assistance Program is a commander’s program and a Soldier’s responsibility. The program provides transition assistance services to eligible Soldiers with at least 180 days of ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — During a recent class at Maude Hall on the largest U.S. military base overseas, Spc. Ulises Alcalde listened to a lecture on employment fundamentals, part of his ...

Transitioning Fort Riley soldiers, family members and Transition Assistance Program personnel tour the Frito Lay facility in Topeka, Kan., April 17. (Thomas Reust/Army) With the vast majority of ...

Headquarters Battalion Command Sgt. Maj. Tawonda Sanders, Operations NCOIC Sgt. 1st Class Edward Gonzalez, 1st Sgt. Michael King, and S1 NCOIC Master Sgt. Corey Perriman learned about each phase of ...

WASHINGTON — Roughly 200,000 military members retire or separate from the armed services every year, according to the Department of Labor. For many vets, it's a struggle. "When you're faced with a ...

WASHINGTON — A bill before Congress would jumpstart benefits for separating troops by authorizing accredited veterans organizations to place counselors in Defense Department transition assistance ...

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Transitioning from the military can be quite overwhelming. Life in the military offers a stark contrast to life as a civilian, and the Transition Assistance Program exists to ...

Federal programs used to help service members transition into civilian life are too focused on education and are not spending enough money and time working toward finding them employment -- and some ...

Your base-level Transition Assistance Program (TAP) class does what it can. The Department of Labor says an estimated 180,000 personnel leave the military every year, and with so many people in need ...

The military trains its people for every mission except the last one — rediscovering who they are when they hang up the uniform, The Heritage Foundation’s Chris Wingate writes.

The Northern Virginia Chapter ’s (NOVA) Successfully Transitioning from Active to Retired (STAR) program eases the move to private-sector employment by disseminating valuable information to military ...