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Make sure you go and enlist for 4 years and then apply and you'll be guaranteed to get a spot. I am all for hiring veterans, but it's damn near impossible for even the most qualified non-veterans to get one of these jobs. Although I'm not an engineer so maybe those positions are different.

FYI: you also get the same hiring preferences if you serve in the Peace Corps

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Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:02 am to sweetwaterbilly

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Posted by chinese58

NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.

Member since Jun 2004

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Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:07 am to gizmoflak

When I got to the bottom of this page, this U.S. Secret Service ad was showing.

Veterans will definitely get those jobs.

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Posted by jbgleason

Bailed out of BTR to God's Country

Member since Mar 2012

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Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:15 am to chinese58

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U.S. Secret Service ad was showing.

Love those ad images. Let’s think about this. Do you think you are going to take that job and be the guy in sunglasses and all black with a machine gun or the guy in a polyester uniform guarding a barricade in 95 degree DC heat? Talk about bait and switch.

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Posted by PUB

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Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:16 am to TheAlmightySmash

Ton of morons too that have no clue.

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Posted by mdomingue

Lafayette, LA

Member since Nov 2010

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Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:38 am to gizmoflak

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how many vets have a BSEE

I've known more at least 10 in my career that were EEs or MEs. I have a cousin who got his ME while in the Navy as an enlisted. For whatever reason he chose not to bump up to commissioned officer (he was a senior chief) even though he was career Navy, I think it was late enough in his career that there may have been string attached he wanted to avoid. Retired after 24 years (joined the day he turned 17, bad home situation with my ne'er do well uncle, his dad).

So probably more than you would think. Thing is, not a single one of those guys I've known didn't get a much better paying job than listed on the site, my cousin included, post service.

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Posted by Clames

Member since Oct 2010

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Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:43 am to gizmoflak

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, I'd say about 6-7 years in you start at GS-7.

Yeah, try a no there. Start as GS-7 and in 3 years they might be a GS-7-3. Experience and a masters degree will get you on as a GS-9. Better have a plan for something to do while waiting to Onboard too, I know guys that have taken upwards of two years to get their oath day.

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