“You will never feel ready. Ready isn’t a feeling — it’s a decision.”

Veteran-owned & operated · Kansas based, working nationwide

Getting out. Landing on your feet.

Twenty years in uniform, and two years inside the transition office at Fort Riley. We help transitioning Soldiers, veterans, military spouses and local community members work out what comes next. The 100+ page veteran binder, the benefit pages, the free calculators and the business start guides are free to download for anyone who asks, anywhere in the United States. The in-person work — job and education fairs, and small business consulting — is Junction City, Manhattan and Fort Riley.

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2 yrsRunning job fairs

1,444Contacts in our network

52Colleges and schools →

100+Binder pages live, more added regularly

Where are you standing?

Everything here sorts into two piles. Pick the one that is you and start there.

Still in uniform

The clock is running

You have a date. What you do with the months in front of it decides how the first year out goes.

SkillBridge — work a civilian job on military pay in your last 180 days
Job and education fairs, so you meet employers before you need one
A six-month runway worked out on paper before you separate
Buying the house while your military pay still counts

Start with SkillBridge →

Already out

The part nobody told you

Benefits you never claimed, a rating that was never finished, and deadlines that expired quietly.

Ten benefits almost nobody claims, with the catch on each one stated plainly
How the VA actually combines ratings, and why 95 is not 100
Retirees, surviving spouses and families — six programs and who to call
Free travel and lodging programs, including two lifetime park passes

See what you are owed →

What we do for you

The advice above is free. This is the work we charge for — the errands and the day-of jobs that eat a week you do not have. One phone number. Call or text — a veteran answers either way.

Job & education fairs

For employers and schools that are hiring or recruiting

A table, two chairs, and a room full of transitioning Soldiers and local job seekers. We handle employer recruitment, advertising, setup, food vendors, and social media coverage on the day. You show up and meet people. A single job fair puts 80 hiring companies in one room, so a job seeker meets them all in an afternoon instead of sending 80 applications.

"We get applications, but they don't show up for the interview."

Reserve a table

Small business consulting

For owners who are busy and still not sure they are making money

We work inside the business, not from a slide deck. What one plate or one job actually costs to produce, where the workflow is losing you time, what the place looks like from the street, and a thirty-day log so the change can be measured instead of guessed at.

"We're busy every night and I still can't tell you what we cleared."

See how the three tiers work →

Talk it through

Mobile notary

For anyone who needs a document notarized without driving to a bank

Licensed in Kansas. We come to you — your house, your office or the hospital. Powers of attorney, affidavits, bills of sale, deployment and PCS paperwork. Not open for appointments yet. Hours and pricing will be posted before we open.

Coming soon

Also available — ask when you call

Coming soon

Laser engraving

Names, retirement and farewell gifts, tumblers and plaques. Small runs welcome — one piece is a job. Not open for orders yet; ask to be told when it starts.

Coming soon Companion Trails

Mobile dog care

Not boarding — your dog stays yours and sleeps at home. Two-hour outings to the dog park or the lake, in-van treadmill sessions, yard cleanup, and rides to and from the vet. Not open for bookings yet; ask to be told when it starts.

Starting your own business

Over 110 start guides, written for somebody who has never run anything. Each one is a single document that takes you from "I have an idea" to a first paying customer — legal setup, the law you become subject to, what to charge, and the three places people get stuck. Written to work anywhere in the country.

The guide

Pick your trade

One business, one document, 8 to 14 pages. No filler and no motivational padding — verified licensing, real cost ranges, and the parts nobody tells you.

Trades: handyman, painting, mobile mechanic, screen printing, welding, gunsmith
Food: catering, meal prep, mobile coffee, ice cream, candy
Services: tutoring, property management, senior care, private investigator, insurance
Retail and product: boutique, thrift, surplus, print on demand, ecommerce

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The service

Make it your town

The guide teaches the method. This is us running it for you — who already holds the work where you live, what their customers complain about, what your city and state actually require, and where the opening is.

A market check on your own zip code, not a generic one
Your state and city licensing, checked and cited
What the incumbents are bad at, from their own reviews
Delivered by email, written to your business, not a template

Not open yet

Finishing up — operational 2 Oct 2026. The guides are written and the market checks are ready, but we are not taking orders or payment until after 30 September 2026. Nothing on this page can be bought today. When orders open, we accept credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App Pay, and bank transfer (ACH) — processed through Square.

The veteran material stays free. The binder, the calculators and every benefits page on this site are free and always will be. These guides are a different thing for a different reason — they took months to research and they are how the free half keeps being free.

Employers · Schools · Organizations

Who we work with

Not everything we do is for one person at a time. Veteran’s Strategic Solutions also works with employers, school districts, nonprofits and municipalities across the Fort Riley area — putting hiring companies and schools in the same room as the people looking for them, and sitting down with owners who need a plan they can actually run.

Employers

Job and education fairs that put you in front of transitioning Soldiers, veterans, spouses and local job seekers — in an afternoon, not a hiring season.

Schools & colleges

A table at every fair, in front of people deciding what to do with a GI Bill they have not spent yet. 52 schools have worked with us so far.

Owners & organizations

Small business consulting for owners in Junction City, Manhattan and Fort Riley — a plan on paper, in plain language, that fits the money you actually have.

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About us

The support structure you lose the day you separate — rebuilt on the outside.

Veteran’s Strategic Solutions LLC is a veteran-owned business run out of Junction City, Kansas, working nationwide. Most of what we do travels: the 100+ page veteran binder, the benefit and rating pages on this site, the free calculators, and the business start guides — all of it is a free download to anyone in the United States who asks. A market check written for your own zip code is available anywhere in the country as well; that one is paid. The in-person work covers Junction City, Manhattan, Fort Riley and the surrounding area: job and education fairs, and small business consulting. Mobile notary, mobile dog care and laser engraving are coming.

That is what we rebuild, and we do it for veterans, military families and local community members. We make it easier, and we come to you.

The veteran binder runs 100+ pages covering VA disability, healthcare, education benefits, housing and financial planning. It is a free download, and it goes to anyone who asks.

Founded and run by a retired Sergeant First Class with twenty years in the Marine Corps and Army. Every Soldier leaving the service wants the same thing we all wanted: somebody willing to give them a fair shot.

You will never feel ready. Ready isn’t a feeling — it’s a decision.Richard Schott · Founder

The veteran binder

Over one hundred pages on the benefits veterans and their families actually need to find — gathered in one place, sorted by the problem you're trying to solve, and added to continuously.

It started as a stack of handouts. It kept growing because veterans kept asking questions nobody had answered for them.

What you earned

VA disability claims · evidence templates · rating criteria and secondary conditions · noise exposure tables by MOS · VA health care · pension and Aid & Attendance

What comes after

Starting a business · business credit · bookkeeping and payroll · second-career trades · personal finance · travel, lodging and veteran discounts

See everything in it, browse by area →

Written by us, only in the binder

VA House Hack — Two Ways to Get the House Buy the duplex before you separate, qualify on your military pay and BAH, and rent the other side from day one. Or buy after you get out and let the GI Bill housing allowance and your tenant carry the mortgage while you go to school. Both routes worked out step by step, with a calculator.
Veteran Trucking Career Pathway Freedom Haulers, the federal CDL waivers that can skip your road test, your written test, and the entry-level training you would otherwise pay for — plus how to use the GI Bill for school or get paid wages and a housing allowance through an apprenticeship.

Free. Browse it right now — no email, no wait.

Every page is live on the site today. Open the full binder → Download what you need and share it with whoever else needs it.

There is no charge, and there never will be.

schott.richard@vsgsolutions.org
Or call 785-579-9071.

Is something missing? Tell us what you were looking for and we'll add it. That is how the binder has grown.

We are not an accredited Veterans Service Organization and this material is informational only. For help filing a claim, use a VA-accredited representative — DAV, VFW, American Legion, AMVETS, or your county Veterans Service Officer. Never pay someone to file your claim.

Free · Private group · Fort Riley area

After the Uniform

A private Facebook group for Fort Riley area veterans and families. Ask a question about a rating, a claim, a PCS, a benefit nobody explained — and get a straight answer from someone who spent twenty years in uniform and two years inside the transition office.

You do not have to buy anything. You do not have to know what to ask. Post it and I will work it out with you.

Join the group

Free calculators

Spreadsheets we built ourselves. Download them right now — nothing to sign up for, nothing to pay, no trial version.

Excel workbook

Six-month runway

Work out what it actually costs to run a household and a business for six months, what income you already have against it, and how much cash you need on hand before you go full time. Built for anyone starting out, not just one trade.

Download ↓ Excel · 5 tabs · 20 KB

Excel workbook

Loan payment

Payment, total interest, and a full month-by-month schedule for any fixed-rate loan. Add an extra monthly payment and it shows you the payoff date you just moved up and the interest you saved.

Download ↓ Excel · 360 payments · 38 KB

Excel workbook

VA house hack

The full workbook behind the duplex guide. Payment and cash flow, what a lender will and won't count as income, VA disability and military pay tables, residual income by region, and property tax breaks and tuition benefits for all fifty states.

Download ↓ Excel · 18 tabs · 82 KB

Excel workbook

Trip cost

Seven tabs covering the whole trip: budget and nights, the costs everyone forgets, who owes whom at the end, a savings plan per paycheck, and a drive-versus-fly comparison that counts the hotel nights a long drive forces on you.

Download ↓ Excel · 7 tabs · 23 KB

Travel and lodging help. Two free lifetime national park passes, free lodging while a family member is in treatment, and discounted resort stays — fourteen established programs with the eligibility rules stated plainly. See the list →

Still serving? SkillBridge lets you work a civilian job in your last 180 days while the military keeps paying you — full pay, BAH, BAS and TRICARE. Ten free programs and the questions to ask → Official site: skillbridge.mil

Most of it is on one page. The six benefit guides on this site, three of the four calculators above, and two originals you cannot find anywhere else, sit in a single file you can save to your device and use with no internet connection. Open the Veteran Toolkit →

Want the binder or a single section? Every page is live — no waiting on an email. Browse the binder →

Get in touch

Call and you get a person, not a menu. If we're on a job, leave a message — we call back the same day.

Phone: 785-579-9071
Email: schott.richard@vsgsolutions.org
Area: On site: Junction City, Manhattan, Fort Riley & surrounding Kansas
By email: anywhere in the United States