Life after the military - a perspective
After four years in the reserves, Duncan was commissioned into the regular army as a Royal Engineer, where he served for a further 16 years. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and his role in the Army was to manage construction projects across the battlefield. When he decided to leave the military in 2007, he had been based overseas which presented him with a unique problem – he didn’t have a set place to relocate in the UK nor did he have a job to steer him in choosing a location. While this is an unlikely problem in the civilian world this can be quite common for those exiting the armed forces. He had this to share about his resettlement experience -
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