People may disregard the things that military vets learn in their basic training as obsolete in the civilian world, but there is a lot of things that you can apply from what you learn in military training even when you get back into the civilian swing of things. Here are just a few things that you learned that might end up helping you.
Farmers have faced an incredibly tough year as they have struggled to bring crops all the way to harvest with limited supplies of water. As such, the government has begun to take emergency measures to help out these farmers, in order to give them a sustainable crop load.
These measures have been declared a priority, since an affected food distribution could have economic consequences. As of right now, special funds re being used and land opened up in order to give farmers a needed edge.
These drought conditions have brought a far more immediate disaster to the western United States- fire. Thousands upon thousands of acres have been lost to flames spreading in the West this summer, being most focused in Colorado, Utah, and California.
Technology, these days long-distance relationships do not need to be as hard as they used to be. My grandparents handwrote letters to each other in order to keep in contact. This is rarely heard of anymore, although still appreciated just as much.
Initiative, Military training requires a lot of initiative. Many times you will find yourself in the position of having to improvise and make decisions quickly.
It takes a lot of foresight and the ability to take initiative when the pressure comes reigning in. There are a lot of ways to deal with it but when you are in the military they force you to do tasks that get you in the mode of making decisions at the drop of a hat every day.
One story of a military veteran who started his farm recently comes to mind. Jack Donner was a Lt in the Marine Corps and had pulled out his VA Loan to start a large scale corn farm in Iowa where he had been born and raised. His biggest corn yield was 2 years ago but the next year he left the season with a huge deficit and tons of expenses to pay off.
As people are becoming more and more affected by the drought it is individualized stories like this that ring true and make the disasters more personal. If we look at the drought, yes it has increased prices of not only corn and wheat and some of our staples but also the price of meat. As feed prices go up so do the prices of beef and pork.
Farmers like Jack deserve our support and not just the governments VA loans. There needs to be more supportive legislation for farmers like Jack who want to keep running their farms but can't without the help of the government or other corporations. So the next time you eat a meal thank a farmer!
Farmers have faced an incredibly tough year as they have struggled to bring crops all the way to harvest with limited supplies of water. As such, the government has begun to take emergency measures to help out these farmers, in order to give them a sustainable crop load.
These measures have been declared a priority, since an affected food distribution could have economic consequences. As of right now, special funds re being used and land opened up in order to give farmers a needed edge.
These drought conditions have brought a far more immediate disaster to the western United States- fire. Thousands upon thousands of acres have been lost to flames spreading in the West this summer, being most focused in Colorado, Utah, and California.
Technology, these days long-distance relationships do not need to be as hard as they used to be. My grandparents handwrote letters to each other in order to keep in contact. This is rarely heard of anymore, although still appreciated just as much.
Initiative, Military training requires a lot of initiative. Many times you will find yourself in the position of having to improvise and make decisions quickly.
It takes a lot of foresight and the ability to take initiative when the pressure comes reigning in. There are a lot of ways to deal with it but when you are in the military they force you to do tasks that get you in the mode of making decisions at the drop of a hat every day.
One story of a military veteran who started his farm recently comes to mind. Jack Donner was a Lt in the Marine Corps and had pulled out his VA Loan to start a large scale corn farm in Iowa where he had been born and raised. His biggest corn yield was 2 years ago but the next year he left the season with a huge deficit and tons of expenses to pay off.
As people are becoming more and more affected by the drought it is individualized stories like this that ring true and make the disasters more personal. If we look at the drought, yes it has increased prices of not only corn and wheat and some of our staples but also the price of meat. As feed prices go up so do the prices of beef and pork.
Farmers like Jack deserve our support and not just the governments VA loans. There needs to be more supportive legislation for farmers like Jack who want to keep running their farms but can't without the help of the government or other corporations. So the next time you eat a meal thank a farmer!
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