Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 03.31.2020
As several flex employees from the Fort Knox Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation prepared to join the unemployment lines after COVID-19 forced local officials to make some very difficult decisions, U.S. Army Installation Management Command officials came through with some much needed good news to keep them in the DFMWR family....
Story by Jean Han | 1st Armored Division | 02.06.2020
FORT BLISS, Texas - Tucked away in a nondescript brown building on Chaffee Road is a little gem of a gift shop bursting with color and charm. Cleverly named A Little Bit of Bliss, the Fort Bliss Spouses’ Association (FBSA)-operated store is a brick-and-mortar solution to something that 1st Armored Division and U.S. Army leaders care about very much- spouse employment and quality of life.......
Courtesy Story | DoD, Military-Civilian Transition Office | 09.07.2019
Our nation’s economy is incredibly strong. Nearly six million jobs have been added since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017. The United States has not seen an unemployment rate this low on a Labor Day since 1969. The veteran unemployment rate has been lower than the non-veteran unemployment rate for 12 consecutive months, a true recognition of the value veterans bring to the......
Story by Spc. Samuel Keenan | Massachusetts National Guard Public Affairs | 05.16.2018
BOSTON – The Boston Red Sox and the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation hosted a Hiring Our Heroes event at Fenway Park, May 16, 2018. The event brought together more than 100 employers interested in hiring current service members and US military veterans....
Story by Capt. Jessica Jackson | Texas Military Department | 06.27.2016
Twenty-two percent of Texas Army National Guard service members returning from operations in support of the Global War on Terrorism were unemployed in 2010 — eclipsing the national average by 9 percent....
Story by Staff Sgt. Tomora Nance | 13th Public Affairs Detachment | 09.23.2014
The Transition Assistance Program held a Military Officer Career Connection job fair for retiring or separating officers Sept. 23 at Fort Hood’s Oveta Culp Hobby. The event gave several local and national employers an opportunity to inform officers on their companies’ openings, history and level of expertise needed to fill a position....
Story by Timothy Hale | U.S. Army Reserve Command | 09.02.2014
In 2013, 57 Army Reserve Soldiers decided the only way out of their particular situation was to take their own life. That year was the most deadly since 2009. The fateful choices these Soldiers made left questions, not only for their loved ones, but also for Army Reserve leaders. To find out the answers, a panel of Army Reserve Suicide Prevention Program managers recently completed......
Story by Timothy Hale | U.S. Army Reserve Command | 09.02.2014
Irony is often cruel and unforgiving. This month’s issue of the Double Eagle is devoted to the often-taboo subject of suicide, or better still, suicide prevention. Unknown to us while compiling facts, data, and personal accounts on members of our own Army Reserve Family for this issue, well-known comedian, and actor, Robin Williams, had taken his own life....
