Depends on what job you have in the military. Some military occupations have no civilian equivalent - most of your combat arms, for example.
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This depends upon your trade. If, as the previous poster pointed out, you are strictly a soldier trained in combat, there isn't a lot of demand for heavy arms training. But you could apply this training to the police.
You could train as a:
cook - restaurant work
communications - broadcasting, public relations, communications like emergency radio dispatchers
motor mechanic - auto repair or any small motor, not just cars and trucks
supply and trucks - truck driving or if you were in the office side you could work in a warehouse as a foreman.
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I think you are thinking about a New deal relief program called the civilian Conservation Corps. Young men w/o jobs could live in camps , get food and housing in exchange for useful work .
To provide jobs for people to improve public lands.
creating jobs
Before the Revolutionary War, Benedict Arnold was a merchant and a shipowner.
Civilian Conservation Corps