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Announcements from Semper Forward

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Transition guidance and hiring insight

Practical writing for the military community and the employers hiring them.

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Research

What the data says about military talent

Original analysis on how service experience translates — and where the labor market gets it wrong.

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Research Brief

Semper Forward

Build the Apprenticeship, Win the Veteran

An employer can attach a federally funded, tax-free monthly payment to an open role at no cost to payroll. The Department of Veterans Affairs pays it directly to the apprentice, it comes to roughly $42,000 across a two-year apprenticeship at the national-average rate, and a competing employer can only match it out of their own pocket. Federal and state programs offset part of what it costs to train them, and expanding apprenticeship is current national policy with money behind it. Almost none of this is being claimed: by the Urban Institute's count, 1% of GI Bill education benefits go to apprenticeship and on-the-job training. This brief argues the constraint is the supply of approved programs, because clearing the two federal approvals means dealing with two different bodies with nearly the same name in every state where apprentices train. This brief covers the money, the obstacle, and what it takes to get on the right side of both.

Research Brief

Semper Forward

The Combat-Arms Discount

Veterans who did the hardest jobs in the military — infantry, combat engineers, artillery — start civilian life earning about $33,000 a year, the bottom of every Defense Department occupational group. Not because they are worth less, but because civilian hiring systems cannot read what their record proves. This brief measures the distance between that placement and the skilled, licensed, and supervisory work a combat-arms record already qualifies for, and argues that the shortage employers cannot fill and the talent they overlook are the same story.

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