Once your time in service comes to an end and you are preparing to re-enter civilian life, military divisions may offer you and your spouse a chance to attend specialized workshops to help with your transition. Information provided includes: job-searches, career guidance, unemployment assistance, current occupation and labor market conditions, disability transition education, and more. Below is a compiled list of some of the programs offered and a brief description of who will benefit by attending each.

Check with your command to find out which ones are available and apply to you.

Disabled Transition Assistance Program (DTAP)
Military service members who are believed to be leaving the military with a service-connected disability or who have a VA memorandum rating 10% or more and will be filing claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Officers Under Twenty (OUT) Program
Any commissioned officer contemplating separation with less than twenty years of active service and leaving with non-retirement status.

Pre-Retirement Seminars
Officers, enlisted persons, and their spouses who are contemplating retirement within two years.

Transition Assistance Deployment Program (TADP) Service members currently on deployment who will be leaving the military within twelve months.

Transition Assistance Program (TAP)
All active duty service members and their spouses within one year of separation, retirees, reservists, and all civil service personnel.

Twenty Five +
Active duty service members and their spouses who have or will have twenty-five years or more of service and are contemplating retirement.

Veterans Affairs Assistance Program (VAAP)
Service members leaving the military with physical conditions or limitations and who are pending a PEB.

* While The Military Veteran strives to keep the most up-to-date information, we can not guarantee the complete accuracy of such provided. All data utilized has been gathered through research of the Department of Veterans Affairs and other government agencies.

Disabled Transition Assistance Program (DTAP) Military service members who are believed to be leaving the military with a service-connected disability or who have a VA memorandum rating 10% or more and will be filing claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs.

* While The Military Veteran strives to keep the most up-to-date information, we can not guarantee the complete accuracy of such provided. All data utilized has been gathered through research of the Department of Veterans Affairs and other government agencies.

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Disabled Transition Assistance Program (DTAP)
Military service members who are believed to be leaving the military with a service-connected disability or who have a VA memorandum rating 10% or more and will be filing claims with the Department of Veterans Affairs.