Return or Quit: Millennial Vet on tough choice many vets, federal workers face
02/20/25 • 23 min
After the recent Executive Order for Federal employees to return to the office, Jenna Carlton, DoD employee and founder of The Millennial Veterans Facebook group is facing a tough choice- stay in her current job, or quit.
She described how her DoD job was fully remote from first the day she was hired. She shared how they live over an hour away from base, but found a way to effectively make her family schedule work with minimal in-office requirements.
After the recent order, she is grappling with the reality that her job may now cost too much to keep.
Beyond the impact on her family, Carlton also shares how this decision is impacting vets nationwide and could even disrupt Naval fleet readiness in the months to come.
For more on her story and other veteran content follow The Millennial Veteran Facebook group on Instagram and Facebook:
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After the recent Executive Order for Federal employees to return to the office, Jenna Carlton, DoD employee and founder of The Millennial Veterans Facebook group is facing a tough choice- stay in her current job, or quit.
She described how her DoD job was fully remote from first the day she was hired. She shared how they live over an hour away from base, but found a way to effectively make her family schedule work with minimal in-office requirements.
After the recent order, she is grappling with the reality that her job may now cost too much to keep.
Beyond the impact on her family, Carlton also shares how this decision is impacting vets nationwide and could even disrupt Naval fleet readiness in the months to come.
For more on her story and other veteran content follow The Millennial Veteran Facebook group on Instagram and Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/themillennialveterans/
Connect with CBS Eye on Veterans Host, Phil Briggs
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Let’s talk about love! Andrew Carroll, Director of The Center for American Letters, returns with some of the most romantic words ever written, by service members fighting wars around the world.
This collection of over 200K letters spans the Revolutionary War to World Wars all the way up to modern emails from our current generation.
We begin with the beautiful words for a loving wife, composed on a battlefield in Virginia, during the American Civil War. Carroll continues with an intriguing love letter that was really part of a secret intelligence mission during WWII. And we hear the bitter side of love, in a response to a “Dear John” letter from a Korean War soldier.
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So don’t wait, grab a pen and some paper and write to the one you love, because love letters are not just for Valentine’s Day anymore.
Check out The Center for American War Letters at Chapman University here:
https://www.chapman.edu/research/institutes-and-centers/cawl/index.aspx
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