The Transition: Preparing for Financial Combat Preparing for Financial Combat

The better prepared a service member becomes through their transition, the greater the chances in achieving their desired lifestyle and goals. The Transition: Preparing for Financial Combat is an invaluable guide dedicated to helping transitioning service members adapt psychologically to their post-military life. With an approach that provides a unique insight and techniques to develop the self-awareness to succeed and thrive in the civilian workplace, it assists our nation's greatest asset—its service members.'The Transition' is your catchphrase for the physical and mental state of change, and 'Preparing for Financial Combat' represents the psychological readiness required to obtain your desired financial security. The support structures and systems to which you became accustomed in the military will be different once separated, so your transition plan and the decisions you make will impact your post-military financial security. Based on the structure of military publications and doctrine with which military personnel are familiar, the book enables easy access to desired information. It consolidates heavily-dispersed information, simplifies difficult-to-comprehend programs, and serves as an alternative source for services.

Colonel (Retired) Heath Niemi is Vice President of Global Sales and Development at Martin UAV. In this capacity, he is responsible for establishing global business development with emphasis on the U.S. Army and Special Operations Command. He is also responsible for capture and project management activities to include business-to-business research and development for the company while introducing the new V-BAT, 'equipment independent' VTOL UAS to global markets. He is a 1992 West Point Graduate and combat veteran of 20 combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne). He previously served as Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army Special Operations Aviation Command (Airborne), commanded and served in executive positions within the 160th Special Operations Aviation Command (Airborne). He was the only World Helicopter Team Gold Medalist for the U.S. team in 1996 and a past U.S.P.F. nationally ranked power lifter. He is also known for his daily investment blog called Strategic Stimulus which correlates macroeconomics for day trading. He writes academic works on future methods of warfare, including a published work on the future of technologically-enabled leadership called 'Flexive Command'.