Mentorship for Every Stage of Military Life
PREP provides personalized, lifelong mentorship to service members from the beginning of their military careers through and beyond their transition to civilian life. Through meaningful community connections, we build trusted relationships that foster growth, personal development, and long-term success.
Your path may include new leadership responsibilities, a difficult career decision, a transition to civilian life, or a fresh challenge years after service. Wherever you are, PREP offers a trusted advisor who takes time to understand your goals and helps you plan what comes next. You do not need to have it all figured out before getting in touch.
A Relationship That Starts Early and Stays With You
Too often, service members are expected to make consequential decisions without an independent person to talk them through. PREP builds mentorship relationships while people are still serving, not only when separation is approaching.
That time together matters. Your mentor can learn about your strengths, responsibilities, family priorities, and ambitions before an urgent decision arrives. As your circumstances change, you have someone who knows your story and can help you consider the next step—whether that means growing in uniform, preparing for transition, or finding your footing afterward.
The goal is not to move everyone toward civilian employment. The goal is to support the path that makes sense for you.
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Support for Your Career and Your Life
Military life does not separate professional decisions from personal ones. PREP’s mentorship considers both.
Career Mentorship
Work through leadership challenges, promotion and reenlistment decisions, education options, and long-term career goals with someone invested in your future. When transition is right for you, PREP can help you translate your experience and explore civilian opportunities as part of a larger plan.
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Life, Leadership & Transition Support
A career plan is only one part of feeling prepared. PREP offers a place to talk through changing responsibilities, personal development, connection with others, and the practical questions that can accompany military and civilian life. When a question calls for specialized guidance, PREP can help identify an appropriate resource.
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Your PREP Jacket: A Plan That Grows With You
Your experience cannot be captured by a job title or a single résumé. The PREP Jacket brings together what PREP learns through your conversations, your service record, and a behavioral assessment to create a personalized roadmap.Depending on your goals, it can help document your leadership and technical experience, identify development priorities, shape a targeted résumé, and track decisions and next steps. It is designed to evolve as you do—giving you and your mentor a shared foundation through different stages of military and civilian life.
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“PREP makes a concerted effort to understand who you are and what drives you. Sometimes that takes several conversations, but that is a good thing.”
— Former Marine Corps Artillery Officer
Support That Starts During Service and Continues Beyond It
You do not need a separation date—or even a plan to leave the military—to benefit from PREP. Starting early gives your mentor time to understand who you are, what matters to you, and how your goals are changing.That continuity matters. A mentor who already knows your story can help you evaluate a new assignment, prepare for greater leadership responsibility, revisit an education plan, or approach transition without starting over. After service, the relationship can continue as you adjust to civilian workplace expectations, pursue advancement, expand your skills, and stay connected to a community that understands where you came from.A lifelong relationship. A plan built to evolve. Support for the mission ahead.
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How to Get Started
Getting started is simple, and support is completely free for service members.
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Connect with PREP
Tell us where you are in your military journey and what you would like help thinking through. You do not need to be close to separation.
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Have a Conversation
A PREP team member gets to know your experience, responsibilities, priorities, and goals. For career mentorship, the onboarding consult is an in-depth conversation that typically lasts 60 to 90 minutes.
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Build Your Plan and Support Network
PREP uses what it learns to develop your personalized plan and connect you with mentorship suited to your needs. Depending on your situation, peer connections or outside resources may also be part of the support.
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Keep Growing
Mentorship is an ongoing relationship. Revisit goals, work through new decisions, and adjust your plan as military life, transition, or your civilian career changes.
Different Paths. A Shared Sense of Support.
Is PREP for You?
PREP is here for service members who want guidance before a decision becomes urgent, people weighing their next military move, those preparing for transition, and veterans seeking continued mentorship and community.
Career mentorship is free, with no rank, branch, or geographic restrictions. PREP supports Active Duty, Reserve, and National Guard members, as well as veterans and transitioned personnel. You do not need a separation date or a plan to leave the military to begin.
Your Next Step Does Not Have to Be a Solo Decision
Whether you are growing into a leadership role, considering your future in uniform, preparing for civilian life, or finding a new direction after service, PREP gives you a place to start. We will listen, learn what matters to you, and help you build a plan backed by a lasting relationship.
