Grim has a problem, in that one of the reasons he joined the Army, to figure out what he wanted to do after high school, turned out to be a bust. While many veterans can translate their military service to a civilian career, not all can. My son used his experience as an electrician’s mate on a nuclear carrier to easily move into electrical engineering and computer engineering jobs as a civilian. On the other hand, a nephew who served in Iraq discovered there weren’t a lot of civilian equivalent jobs for a gun bunny in a Marine artillery unit. More on this in the next few chapters.