By McKenzie Beard and Vanessa Montalbano, Illustration: iStock/Washington Post Illustration, The Lily, January 3, 2022
When Carol “Cat” Corchado retired from the Air Force after spending 20 years serving in communications and project management roles, she believed she would be a “first-round draft pick for employers.”
“It wasn’t even close,” Corchado said. “When I got out, the road was not paved. It was dirt.”
It was 2000, and she was armed with her résumé and discharge papers.
“If you’ve been in for a long time, you have this dream of what being a civilian is going to be like,” she said, “and of all of the things you get to do.”
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