New veteran-hiring plan will ‘energize’ effort

The Obama administration has introduced a new initiative to increase veteran hiring.

The program includes more training for troops to prepare for their post-armed forces career, what the administration calls “reverse boot camp.” The plan also contains tax incentives for agencies and businesses that hire returning veterans.

Captain Brad Cooper, the executive director of the Joining Forces Initiative, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the new efforts

Some three million men and women have served in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts over the past decade, he said, which is about to 1 percent of the American population.

The new efforts, and similar ones in the past, is akin to the remaining 99 percent doing their part to give back, Cooper said.

He also said federal agencies and the private sector, including government contractors, have already been answering the call to hire more veterans.

The most recent initiatives aim to “codify” those efforts and “energize” them in a different and special way, Cooper said.

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