Mission Family: Make the most of every transition resource
(November 21, 2015)
When separating from the military, check your ego at the door — along with what you think you know, an Air Force spouse advises.
Mina Baldinger and her husband, Ron, who retired from the Air Force in May as a colonel, spoke about their transition at the National Military Spouse Network's fifth annual career summit.
The couple soaked up every bit of information from every source — from “anyone and everyone,” Mina said.
Similarly, Ron's best advice for going through a transition is to “talk to the many people you know who have made the transition before you.”
That was critical, Mina said, because “we really didn't know what we were doing — and we're still figuring it out.”
As Ron put it in a later interview: “You don't know what you don't know.”
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