service and experience by offering them jobs the moment they switch from ACUs to civilian garb. The truth is far different. Many of us hold jobs in the military that don't transition to civilian employment. Infantrymen don't find equivalent jobs in the civilian sector. Police and law enforcement look askance at Special Forces and other elite military units, considering them trigger happy and too edgy. Not that today's militarized police forces should consider that a bad thing. Society in general views us as damaged goods, fearing we all suffer from PTSD and will go off the first time someone laughs too loud. Vets have higher unemployment than the general population and have higher rates of poverty and homelessness. If someone had told me what I was in for when I was young and signing on the dotted line, I would have beaten the crap out of my recruiter. 
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