How is it that some Military jobs dont certify you to perform your skills on

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the outside? How is it that some Military jobs dont certify you to perform your skills on the outside and or get recognized by civilians.


I am a Veteran and I would like to know how is it that once a Veteran comes out of the Military certain jobs or duties they performed have no certification. Such as my case for example I was a Corpsman, all the combat and peace time medicine I saw would amount to double that of a doctors residence at a hospital. I know there are programs available however, those take some time to get through and some states don't offer the same VN test to allow you to test out for the credentials.


I rather get spit on the way I did by my girl friend when I came home from Afghanistan. (Yes that happened ill take that any day than a letter in the mail telling me I am not qualified)
Yeah I never had time to take that EMT test by my EAS due to me being deployed I have a total of 3 years of field time and actually got shipped out of Iraq for my EAS lol! No stop loss at the time in 2005. I am going for the VN but I found out the state I am living in does not recognize my experience as a Corpsman If I was not on a Hospital ward for +1 year.
I am currently almost a Surgical Tech. Thanks for the GI bill responses guys! :) Using up that money. But wouldnt it have been nice if you had something stating what you did was legit and could get an easy hire on the outside? USAjobs.com is awesome for jobs as well I forgot to mention but the point of the question was about civilian agencies.
 
Every state has it's own certification program for Para's and EMTs. Your experience on the job in the military should help you ace those programs.
My experience in the military, when I went to finish my BA, was that when I submitted my military record for review, I received over 30 semester hours in credit towards that degree. LOL I was just 3 hours short of the degree, so I ended up graduating with over 170 semester hours!
Had I elected to return to sea as a merchanter, or in the Military Sealift Command, I would have had to requalify under civilian rules in order to ship as a First Mate, or any other position.
 
Your military transcripts do qualify you. I got 30 credit hours out of my MOS.
It is just some liberal elitist universities do not want to accept those credits. They are more than happy to take Gov. money but to hell with Gov. employees.
 
I wonder the same thing every day. But the truth is, it was a Military Job, done the Military Way. Apparently, as I found out, and it sounds like you are finding out, that doesn't always transfer over smoothly to the Civilian Way. The military doesn't give us degrees, so nobody really cares what happened. Its a crappy deal sometimes, but you'll get through it. My advice: if you have your GI Bill, USE IT. You may want to wait until August, because the new GI Bill takes effect then, but that depends on where/what you are going to school for.

-- "Change I Can't" is right on. I did the same job in the AF (Sec. Forces), and you still have to go through the whole civilian LE process as if you never did in the military. I applied with several depts, and decided that I really didn't want to deal with it all. Changed direction now and I am going to AMU for a degree in Intelligence, with hopes of getting on with an agency in the Intelligence community once I graduate. Good luck to all in the same situations.
 
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