Unfortunately, we do have a skills gap. In many different cases, the military doesn't provide credentials according to civilian standards. The only real cases that exist are for lawyers and medical doctors, which we all know are jobs that probably account for less than 2% of the total active force. For engineering, construction, military occupational specialties, avionics technicians, and things like that, we're working diligently with the Department of Defense to identify those crosswalks.
Until that time, however, it's really incumbent upon the communities that receive veterans to direct them to the community and technical colleges that are able to help them upskill and test out, if they do have those skills and experience. If someone coming from the marine corps is a welder, then they can test out. They can show their competency on a job site or at a technical school so that they can accelerate that transition, as opposed to going through repetitive training, which obviously costs taxpayers more money and leaves service members frustrated because they've already been through that.
We do our best to direct them to those opportunities, and then make sure that they translate the skills and experience that they gained in the military to the civilian world. This means cleaning up all the jargon, all the military acronyms, and really coaching them on how to prepare themselves for a civilian interview.