How much of your HAZMAT/CBRN training and maintenance shop skills translated into the civilian workplace?

In most cases 100% Military Regulations are almost identical to OSHA

I'm going to give it to you straight, if your not Tech Escort your going to have to grind your gears and out hustle your peers to find comparable work. I'd advise you to get a degree while your in, if your looking to do comparable work, get a degree in chemistry, nuclear sciences, or emergency management. if you want to transition to a corporate job where you do training or operations or something along those lines get a degree in business management or something complimentary.

The civilian world, not including government work, are afraid of soldiers with the combination of scary words in job titles like ours. The best places to look to transition if you do t want to do the degree thing would be police, firefighters, and a number of other state, local, or federal departments that have an operational need for our very niche skill set.

Go to as many Military Schools as you can, get proof via certificates and credentials that you know what your talking about because employers won't take your word for it. And always keep in mind what it is you want to do, specifically, when you transition to the civilian world so you can figure out how to make yourself a top 10% competitor for the position.

Most of it does translate to civilian fields

These skills are important to civilian employers. I continued working in aviation and they were an integral part of the job. It really depends what industry you go to but if you do a job in the mechanical field those skills will be important.

It's nice to see from the other responses that this training is now accepted in civilian life. When I got out in 1975, none of it was of any value as far as employers were concerned. I'd been a medic, and became a firefighter for thirteen years. Right off the bat, I had to take the basic and advanced first aid courses because I hadn't had those specific courses; just the 91B medical specialist course at the Medical Field Service School, and all the continuing education training that followed over the years. HAZMAT? Nothing there counted until I went to college on my own and took two semesters of Hazardous Materials Chemistry.

Military HAZMAT training served me well in civilian life...I retired with 38 yrs in the postal service beginning as a letter carrier and finishing as a Postmaster during the crucial period of time of the aftermath of 911 where we had our HAZMAT teams to inspect any suspicious substance that came in the mail....so yes, the military training kicked in

Most states and military bases have a need for HAZMAT trained people. Couple your HAZMAT Training with industrial safety and you could probably go to work anywhere.

ALL OF IT! The shipping industry is huge on haZmat. In customs I was a hazmat specialist for the last 12 years or so

Hazmat helped alot not at first because im not sure of the direction in civilian life i wanted to seek now and the last 15 years it has excelled my career.

Without the basic training in NBC and CBRN that I received in the military during 32 years of combined active and reserve service I would have been ill prepared for HAZMAT issues in the civilian work place. Most civilian HAZMAT training was either very condensed or not repeated and updated often enough. That said there are many transportation industry organizations that have robust HAZMAT and up to date training that is regularly scheduled. It all depends on your employer.