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app (available on both Google Play and the Apple App Store) will walk through the steps and perform multiple functions from emailing one's commanding officer (CO) of their intentions to listing materials they should gather in preparation for working with the VA once their service is complete. The app also prompts servicemembers to begin working on their VA disability claims, helping them schedule the necessary doctor's appointments and needed paperwork. According to Sturdivant, The current mobile application is informative. The evolution is that, ideally, the app opens (with gamification) asking if you're prepared to retire or transition. It then asks when to build your calendar and asks if you wish to inform your chain of command. The next step is asking you what track you'd like to pursue: entrepreneurial, career transition or skill-building. If you want to take a year, two years or less the app finds and formats your calendar to make sure your training is covered. All of the classes and services are accessible via the app or website with Program Managers available to handle the courses and support to meet every servicemember, veteran or family member's needs. There is a chat function as well, so that whether they're in active duty, a veteran or a family member, the user feels supported 100 percent through the transition. The two-year program through the app includes training to help veterans be competitive with their civilian counterparts, and the organization is communicating with the DOD and VA as well as Fortune 500 companies to create an internship. As you're doing your irst of the two years, we're also searching for the right corporate partner for you to work with and intern with, and so the focus is your last 180 days, shared Sturdivant. You're certified and trained; you've already done all your VA stuff, and now you can just focus on being in partnership in the internship with the potential company that's going to hire you. The program seeks to fill the gaps that are currently in the system by filling the gaps that appear when a servicemember seeks to retire as the VA will not work with active-duty members just as the DOD will not work with veterans in need of assistance. By law, they can't. You're either in the military, or you're not, said Sturdivant. I can't reach out to the VA and ask them anything about retirement, and they can't talk to me about it. But as a nonprofit [we] can talk to whomever [we] want. So, in the words of the VetsWhatsNext founder, It is time that our veterans regain the hope and trust they have lost in the transition process. VWN is here to provide our veterans a product, services and resources that will reduce the number of suicides of our veterans each day. We are all things veterans ; there is Life. After. Military. For more information, visit VetsWhatsNext.org.
Major Eric K. King
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