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((Banner:  After Military Training)) 
((Reporter/Camera:  Unshin Lee)) 
((Adapted by:  Philip Alexiou)) 
((Map:  Washington, D.C.)) 
 
((Popup Banner:  Dog Tag Bakery helps veterans transition 
to civilian life)) 
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((Meghan Ogilvie, CEO, Dog Tag Inc.))  
I don't think we recognize that cultural shift that happens 
when you are serving in the military and then transitioning 
out.  So, you go from a uniform that says, how many times 
you’re promoted, to now walking out wearing a blazer and 
now my name is Meghan.   
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((Meghan Ogilvie, CEO, Dog Tag Inc.))  
Dog Tag Bakery is our living business school where we 
empower veterans that have service-connected disabilities, 
military spouses and military caregivers to understand 
entrepreneurship and small business.  So, for five months, 
four days a week, our fellows participate in six hours a week 
of classroom time.  During that time, they're going through 
seven courses taught by Georgetown professors to 
ultimately graduate with a certificate in Business 
Administration from Georgetown.  The need for our program 
is to making sure that no one falls through the cracks, to 
start understanding what does employment mean to you but 
also how do you start taking care of yourself.   
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((Tiki Ntundi, Veteran, Army))  
Well, I got medically retired from the Army in 2015.  It took 
me a lot of time to try to figure out what I wanted to do 
because depression kicked in.  I was excited for the program 
and the opportunity one - to just get out of bed, and two - 
having a plan for the day, something to go do, to use my 
mind again to accomplish something, made me very excited 
for what was yet to come.   
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((Meghan Ogilvie, CEO, Dog Tag Inc.)) 
During a whole course called finding your voice, taking the 
time and space to really develop who you are, what your 
values are and what your purpose is today and what that 
journey looks like going forward.   
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((Brandi Lambert, Military Spouse))  
I was a stay-at-home mom for four years and then I was, I 
became a caregiver.  He was in for four years before he got 
medically discharged.  So, I was not only a caregiver to my 
son.  I became a caregiver to my husband as well.   
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((Meghan Ogilvie, CEO, Dog Tag Inc.)) 
So, we have military spouses that come through here that 
don't have the luxury of the resume that their service 
member or their spouse does, because they've had to move 
every other year and even raising a family and employment 
is difficult if the employer knows they're going be moving. 
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((Brandi Lambert, Military Spouse))  
The hardest part was noticing that I had to get out and do 
something.  The hardest part was leaving and, you know, 
taking a step back from that and figuring out, you know, 
where do I go from here?  How do I balance, you know, what 
I want to do to make an impact on the world, but also how do 
I, you know, balance my family?   
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((Meghan Ogilvie, CEO, Dog Tag Inc.))  
When you come in here, you're, whether you're an officer or 
enlisted, a spouse or caregiver, you're just Brandy or you're 
just Teaky and there's value in moving today’s workforce in 
the civilian world to know who you are today.  And it really 
becomes kind of an equalizer.  We say thank you for your 
service which is what we should be saying but I think we 
actually really need be putting a hand out, pull each other 
back up.  It’s not the military community or the civilian 
community.  It's about community.
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