TRUE, BUT… Military Veterans an Untapped Talent Pool for Tech Industry.

About 200,000 service members leave the military each year. Meanwhile, technology firms are creating more jobs than can be filled by college and university graduates.

This confluence of factors has prodded the industry into action, said Chris Cortez, Microsoft’s vice president of military affairs and a retired Marine Corps major general.

Cortez runs the Microsoft Software & Systems Academy, a training program for U.S. military service members who want to transition to IT jobs.

“We looked at the fact that nearly a million people leave military service over a five-year period, and they’re all going to be looking at what they’re going to do next,” Cortez told RealClearDefense. “You couple that with the fact that, at Microsoft, we have thousands of unfilled jobs, and there’s not enough people with a technology background out there. So why not match those two?”

The more relevant question might be, “Can progressive tech firms tolerate all the wrongthink vets would bring with them?”