August 30, 2025

AF-1140: Post-War Professions: Careers That Came from Military Skills


Some families have stories that begin with war but continue through decades of work that followed. A man who served in a supply battalion later owned a hardware store. A woman who drove an ambulance in Europe spent her post-war years as a nurse. A quiet grandfather who never spoke about the war was known around town as the best electrician anyone had ever seen.

These are more than coincidences. They’re professional paths shaped directly by military service — by what veterans learned, endured, and adapted.

This part of the Second Lives series explores how veterans took what they knew in uniform and made it into a trade, a business, or a second life they never expected...

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