The Army Is Stepping Up of Help Soldiers Transfer to Civilian Jobs
December 12, 2018
The Army is now offering a journeymen apprenticeship program that can be completed with training and job skills a soldier would already possess. The United Services Military Apprenticeship Program lets soldiers pick more than a hundred job titles that would relate to their Military Occupation Specialty. They can enroll at no extra cost or use of benefits.
Though the basic infantry soldier occupation does not have a transferable job through the program, senior infantry sergeants can qualify via secondary roles they helped serve, such as supply specialist, or record keeping.
Soldiers that completed Advanced Integrated Training, a more detailed instruction course for their service role, can have that time count as instruction. Time in AIT will count as on-the-job training.
This program is part of the Army’s bigger initiative to help soldiers leaving the service show civilian employers that their military jobs translate to the civilian workforce. The program is scheduled to go Army-Wide in late 2019.