Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Midlands Voices: Vets’ skills well suited for work force

(From the Omaha World Herald)
By Cliff McEvoy'00

The author, a former U.S. Air Force captain, is a job readiness and training manager with the Nebraska Veteran Leader Corps program.
When someone asks me what I did in the Air Force, I pause and say, “I was a nuclear missile operator.”
I pause because I have been asked enough times to know that the response is usually, “Oh … OK,” followed by a blank stare. Even my closest friends and family still don’t understand exactly what I did in the military.