{"id":304,"date":"2025-11-04T13:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/?p=304"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:46:25","slug":"many-federal-employees-are-also-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/2025\/11\/04\/many-federal-employees-are-also-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day &#8211; Honoring Vets in Federal Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fiscal year 2017, 633,386 veterans worked for the federal government\u201431.1 percent of the total federal workforce. Veterans with disabilities numbered 273,428, or 13.4 percent of the total workforce and 43.2 percent of all veterans in it. Those with disabilities rated at 30 percent or more numbered 172,882\u20148.5 percent of all employees and 27.3 percent of all veterans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/honoring-veterans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>From Military Service to Civil Service: Wounded Warriors Discuss Their Transitions to Civilian Federal Jobs<\/strong><\/a><br>\n(Originally published in the November 2020 issue of NARFE Magazine)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Veterans Day coming up, we need to recognize that many NARFE federal retirees and employees are also veterans. Thank you to all our fellow NARFE members who have served our country!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2025\/11\/american-flag.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}