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Old 06-01-2015, 08:23 PM
 
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For those too old to enlist in the armed forces, but still want to work with the military, what are some good civilian career alternatives that will enable one to work directly with our military and assist them in their endeavors?
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Old 06-01-2015, 08:34 PM
 
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For those too old to enlist in the armed forces, but still want to work with the military, what are some good civilian career alternatives that will enable one to work directly with our military and assist them in their endeavors?
Probably contract work if you have a skill, knowledge or experience they can use.

Mostly I just wanted to wish you the best of luck. I'm about twice the age for any military-related work unless they need a white-headed target.
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Old 06-01-2015, 11:43 PM
 
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For those too old to enlist in the armed forces, but still want to work with the military, what are some good civilian career alternatives that will enable one to work directly with our military and assist them in their endeavors?
You have to be a little more specific. There are hundreds of thousands of jobs that work for and with defense industries both alongside or just in support of the military. You can be a cook and go do contract food service work on a military base or deployed area; you can be a contractor playing Rambo by providing a specialty skill, or you can be part of a white collar engineering team designing some ultra top secret system. I alone have 50 or so employees at anytime working on defense related projects from an illustrator designing signage all the way to a skilled OPFOR tactician probing weaknesses in our projects.

You can work for ABC Fortune 50 Defense Company washing experimental military aircraft at their facility while interfacing with everyone from an E-1 to an O-9 while talking last night game scores, or you can be the one developing the most advance weapons stealth material every known to man but never see a single military person and they treat you as if your just developing a new underwear material.

You have to decide what you want to do and if it relates to military connections, so be it; if not, you have nothing to be disappointed over.
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Old 06-02-2015, 09:08 AM
 
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You have to be a little more specific. There are hundreds of thousands of jobs that work for and with defense industries both alongside or just in support of the military. You can be a cook and go do contract food service work on a military base or deployed area; you can be a contractor playing Rambo by providing a specialty skill, or you can be part of a white collar engineering team designing some ultra top secret system. I alone have 50 or so employees at anytime working on defense related projects from an illustrator designing signage all the way to a skilled OPFOR tactician probing weaknesses in our projects.

You can work for ABC Fortune 50 Defense Company washing experimental military aircraft at their facility while interfacing with everyone from an E-1 to an O-9 while talking last night game scores, or you can be the one developing the most advance weapons stealth material every known to man but never see a single military person and they treat you as if your just developing a new underwear material.

You have to decide what you want to do and if it relates to military connections, so be it; if not, you have nothing to be disappointed over.


I'm a teacher, and would hope to find work in an educational capacity
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:25 AM
 
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I'm a teacher, and would hope to find work in an educational capacity
The Air Force have (or had) very strong educational programs relating to the specific skill category of each airman. I was a jet aircraft mechanic. All my instructors in the 1960s were enlisted men but I think that has much changed since then.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:35 AM
 
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The Air Force have (or had) very strong educational programs relating to the specific skill category of each airman. I was a jet aircraft mechanic. All my instructors in the 1960s were enlisted men but I think that has much changed since then.


my area of interest is maritime and naval history, I hope the navy has civilian teaching opportunities.
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Old 06-02-2015, 11:39 AM
 
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my area of interest is maritime and naval history, I hope the navy has civilian teaching opportunities.
I'm sure they do. Good luck.
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Old 06-02-2015, 12:49 PM
 
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my area of interest is maritime and naval history, I hope the navy has civilian teaching opportunities.
I believe the Naval Academy has civilian professors.
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Old 06-02-2015, 12:56 PM
 
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These are all schools operated on military bases both home and abroad. You can apply for teaching positions at any of them. The service academies will take civilian instructors as well, but that's a long shot. Also look into the services ROTC programs as they will have civilians working in those offices at colleges, most are not teaching positions however.

Look at the Army TRADOC poisitons on USAJOBS, there are some instuctor positions open there too. A lot of the positions are highly selective and for high speed low drag skillsets, Cyber Security, Intelligence, etc.

It helps to have a security clearance already for many positions.
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