Hello, MG Mark Graham here from Vets4Warriors, I'll be by on Tuesday to chat with you. What questions do you have for me?

NSTR but thanks, General, for being on here!

Thanks again for everyone who is currently serving or who has served, and your family members. Thanks too for participating today and for Rally Point for hosting this forum and keeping the conversations going. All the very best. Mark Graham....Land of the Free...Because of the Brave!

Good afternoon! First I would like to thank Rally Point for hosting this forum and the work they do and for inviting me to join you today. Also, thanks to each of you that served for your service.

I want to start by letting you know a little about the organization I am working with today....Vets4Warriors [login to see]

Vet4Warriors
Discover the Power of Connection
Vets4Warriors is the leading peer support network for a service member, veteran, family member or caregiver who needs to talk to someone who has been through similar situations and can help them get answers to their questions.
Who We Are
Vets4Warriors provides a 24/7 peer support network that any individual in the military community can contact for confidential conversations and trusted solutions to physical, mental or social challenges, before those challenges turn into crises.
Vets4Warriors isn’t a crises or suicide hotline. We are a peer support network staffed by members of the veteran and military communities. Our philosophy is that there are no challenges we can’t help our veterans, military members, their families or their caregivers find the solution for.
We provide a multi-touch and multi-channel service. Clients engage for more than one contact, and there is more than one way to reach us.
What We Do
We provide sustained support to service members, veterans, family members and caregivers through confidential phone, text and online conversation. We are not a single-use resource. Many of the people we help continue to engage with us in an ongoing dialogue that spans months as they work through the challenges that led them to contact us in the first place.

As a civilian supporter, I would thank everyone for their service and especially MG Mark Graham for his contributions! I note that I am not sure if this is the proper place to ask this question, but I am encouraged by the questions I read here asking how you might work with other military organizations.

I do not have any experience in the application of military justice. I would like to understand the process and reasoning of military justice and the plight of those American soldiers that are in American prisons for events that occurred in life threatening situations such that it is possible they are innocent or that testimony is in question. I read about them on United American Patriots (UAP) website. It occurred to me other Rally Point military personnel may be interested in this question?

I posted the original question today on ISW, because that information leads me to more questions:
https://www.rallypoint.com/organizations/institute-for-the-study-of-war/answers
Please advise if there are better channels for information and/or the best way to work within the system to help. Thank you for your time and consideration!

I did not want to presume everyone knows about UAP so I added the link here:
https://www.unitedpatriots.org/presidential-petitions

Good afternoon sir! As a junior enlisted soldier who has his eyes set on earning a commission in the future, I have many questions I'd like to ask, but I'll keep it brief. In the few years I have been in the military, I have heard many gripes and complaints, both in and out of the service, about upper echelon leadership failing to look after the troops they command and instead looking pretty for their bosses and colleagues. As a flag officer, how do you personally maintain rapport with the lower ranking enlisted soldiers you command?

Mr Graham I have a question regarding whether or not I should be a part of this site. I didn't serve in the regular military. I spent 4 years in the Ohio Military Reserves. I didn't take an oath to defend the US Constitution, I took an oath to defend the Ohio Constitution. I don't have a dd214, we were never issued one. My driver's license (Ohio) says "Armed Forces" right next to "Organ donor". There are mixed opinions on whether or not thiat service qualifies as military service.

I'm asking you this question now because if this site does not view State Guard as military service, I will ask you to promptly remove me from the site. I'm not a poser, and I would prefer to bow out of this honorably while there's still time. And I don't want to jumped by service men/women and treated as a fake, wannabe, you know all the names.

Can I get a ruling on this?

With Respect
Scott Born

A friend of mine from high school husband served and passed away from cancer. She does not have a copy of his DD-214 to get credit for a federal position, she is a nurse. Aside from requesting a copy from the National Archives, any suggestions to expedite the process?

I have a question that has been nagging at me for a while. When I was younger and first started searching for a job, I was told "dress to impress" which to me meant suit tie etc..these days, I am told casual dress is acceptable. Isn't it more professional to dress like you want to make a good first impression?

General Graham, Sir I have a question. So I served as both National Guard Infantryman and Active Duty Army Infantryman in the early to mid-1980's. Saw a lot of change and my Wisconsin National Guard unit was among the first to get the new TOW Humvees back then. So now for my question the Civil Disturbance mission of the National Guard always had me a little curious being in the National Guard and now outside looking in. Most of those Infantry units have very little in the way of non-lethal defenses or non lethal approaches to Civil Disturbance management. The choice seems is just the appearance of the National Guard will quell the Civil Disturbance.

All we had back when I was in as far as equipment were clubs and lexan face Shields...........the next choice for escalation was live ammo it seemed. Will NG units ever be equipped with non lethal Civil Disturbance equipment beyond clubs and tear gas or what exactly is the Pentagon thinking there? They are always a last resort so they do not necessarily need the non-lethal stuff? I have always been curious about this and not really trying to open a can of worms or anything.

Sir, I am an active duty LT and co-founder of a platfrom called OweYaa.com where we link vets and spouses to online project-based internships to help them develop relevant work experience in their transition.

What are the cornerstone issues you see that lead to difficulties in employment and thereby financial difficulties post transition? Do you agree with the statement that a sound financial (meaningful/fulfilling work) standing is the cornerstone to a successful transition?