How To Write About Your Combat Experience In Your Resume

When it comes to transitioning out of the military and into the private sector, combat veterans possess a wealth of knowledge and battlefield experience that separates them from their civilian peers. Unfortunately, sometimes that’s not enough on its own You have to be able to express it in a way your civilian peers will understand.

Which is a lot harder than it sounds. Most civilian employers have only a tangential understanding of what military service or combat entails, informed by pop culture, films, books, and occasionally second-hand knowledge.