Mary Kennedy Thompson
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748 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Oct 2014
last heard May 2018
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what they have done for us.
More than a in the next five years, more than a million servicemen and women will uh transfer out of the military.
Uh oftentimes if I'm talking
to civilians about this, I will use this analogy 'cause they I they get it.
Uh when I when I first went in the military I went to jump school and I jumped out of airplanes.
And the fur my first day leaving the military was scarier for me than the first time I jumped out of an airplane.
Well they're often on a base somewhere away from where they s join the military.
So you've got, you know, somebody who's leaving who might be on a base in California and their family is in Pennsylvania and they don't even know where to start.
They uh I I don't know where to start.
I
I w it was very frightening time.
I remember the first time I got sick, I had never been on civilian insurance.
I didn't even know how to call the doctor and knew that.
I'm not a dumb woman.
I just could it's it's a lot to learn.
You're learning how to reintegrate into
your society, into your community, into the jobs, into all these things that are different.
They make great franchisees and great employees because they know systems and they understand responsibility and commitment.
And so they're they're wonderful to work with.
Um
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