A short pre-flight checklist as we get ready to fly into the danger zone of "military transition."

Here's the highlights:
The job market seems good on the surface, but will that job remain after you get hired?

Will the purchasing power of that paycheck keep pace with the cost of living increases? Will the payraises keep you happy?

Do you value time more than your "money savings", or your savings more than your time?

How do you perceive "value?"

Do you have for-certain access to food-stuffs to maintain your family's sustenance, enabling you to stay as high on Maslow's Heirarch of Needs as possible, employing your imagination to help find tradeoffs to tough problems?
Have you read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America lately? These are the two documents most closely linking "the military" to We The People.