But what's the solution to this? At the end of the day the Fed Gov has become an incredibly successful jobs program for vets. (see vets preference and all sorts

But what's the solution to this? At the end of the day the Fed Gov has become an incredibly successful jobs program for vets. (see vets preference and all sorts of affirmative action there) Obviously, one can make the argument that perhaps the skill-set and drive that encourages one to join the military is probably, in a majority of cases, orthogonal to what makes someone good at cybersecurity. But who would ever argue that? It's political suicide, "how dare you hate the troops", etc. It's fun to see how toxic it can get -- I'd recommend looking at a few of the USAJobs message boards that have advice on how to get hired. Every now and then you'll see a thread about how the veteran preference is unfair, and, well, I won't spoil it. :) It won't change until it has to change.