Military Downsizing: Persons Returning to Civilian Life Need More Help
from DOD (Letter Report, 01/21/94, GAO/HEHS-94-39).

Since 1990, about 300,000 service members have left the armed forces
every year due to the downsizing of the military.  Because of inadequate
support from the Defense Department and military service headquarters,
however, many of these persons and their spouses have not been receiving
timely assistance in the transition to civilian life as required by law.
Officials responsible for providing transition services did not know
who was leaving, departing service members were not being given
information translating their military experience and training into
marketable civilian skills, members either were not being provided
individual preseparation counseling or were not receiving it promptly,
and many service members and their spouses did not have a chance to
attend transition seminars and use job assistance centers.  Service
members and their spouses who received transition services told GAO that
they had found them helpful in readjusting to civilian life. In
September 1993, the Secretary of Defense issued a memorandum stressing
the need for commander support of the program.

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 REPORTNUM:  HEHS-94-39
     TITLE:  Military Downsizing: Persons Returning to Civilian Life 
             Need More Help from DOD
      DATE:  01/21/94
   SUBJECT:  Military downsizing
             Veterans employment programs
             Reductions in force
             Military discharges
             Employment or training programs
             Education or training
             Income maintenance programs
             Personnel management
             Training utilization
             Military personnel

             
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