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Richard Sisk

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Sep 12, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Richard Sisk

    Survivor’s guilt felt by young soldiers echoes Odysseus’s haunted memories (opens the original)

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    He was the king of Ithaca and a combat veteran of repute who was the anti-hero of Homer’s Odyssey and a con artist “insatiate of deceit” whose trials of the heart in coming home would mirror those of many veterans 3,000 years later. For Jonathan Shay, author of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming, the 10 years of wanderings on a perilous sea as Odysseus took the really, really long way home could be seen as an “allegory for the real problems of combat veterans

  2. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Richard Sisk

    Unexpected hiring surge drives down unemployment rate for post-9/11 veterans (opens the original)

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    The unexpected surge of 162,000 jobs added to payrolls last month drove the unemployment rate for the post-9/11 generation of veterans down more than a full percentage point from 4.7% in July to 3.5% in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate for all veterans also came down from 4.2% in July to 3.4% in August — compared to the overall unemployment rate of 4.1%. This comes as the economy rebounded from the negative job creation numbers recorded in July, whe

  3. Article · Aug 10, 2026 · Richard Sisk

    Veterans unemployment stable despite job market cratering in July, report shows (opens the original)

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    A volatile month of July saw employers shed 23,000 jobs and lay off another 153,000, according to the monthly jobs report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Friday. Amid the plunge, the unemployment rate for veterans appeared to stabilize at 4.2% despite the impact of artificial intelligence, tariffs and the war in Iran. The 4.2% jobless rate for all veterans was up a tick from the 4.1% recorded in June, while the rate for post-9/11 veterans dropped from 4.8% in June to 4.7% in July. The

  4. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Richard Sisk

    Job search ‘coaches’ gear up to help transitioning troops meet AI challenge (opens the original)

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    For starters, Dr. Thomas Easterly, known as the Army’s “AI Guy,” has recommended that soldiers transitioning out of the military and looking for a job might want to try turning artificial intelligence loose on the information in their DD-214s. Think of it as “using AI to navigate your next mission,” Easterly said in a June 29 podcast of the Army’s Transition Assistance Program. Troops can feed information from the DD-214, the record of military service, into AI — minus the Social S

  5. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Richard Sisk

    Job search ‘coaches’ gear up to help transitioning troops meet AI challenge (opens the original)

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    For starters, Dr. Thomas Easterly, known as the Army’s “AI Guy,” has recommended that soldiers transitioning out of the military and looking for a job might want to try turning artificial intelligence loose on the information in their DD-214s. Think of it as “using AI to navigate your next mission,” Easterly said in a June 29 podcast of the Army’s Transition Assistance Program. Troops can feed information from the DD-214, the record of military service, into AI — minus the Social Security number

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