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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Twenty Years In. Two More Helping Others Out.
Richard Schott served seven years in the Marine Corps and thirteen in the Army, retiring as a Sergeant First Class. He spent his last two years of federal service working inside the Fort Riley transition office, counseling Soldiers on what comes next — the same work he does now for anyone who asks, veteran or not.
Veteran's Strategic Solutions LLC exists because most of what he saw Soldiers struggle with wasn't a lack of benefits — it was a lack of someone willing to sit down and walk them through it.
Where Are You Standing?
Everything here sorts into two piles. Pick the one that is you and start there.
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
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
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
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.
Small Business Consulting
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.
Mobile Notary
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.
Career Coaching & Resume Writing
Written and reviewed by someone with actual TAP counseling experience, not a call-center match to a random writer. Full resume rewrite, ATS keyword-optimized, plus cover letter, LinkedIn profile and an interview-prep session. My paid services will be operational 2 Oct 2026. Pricing is already set and posted here when applications open 2 Oct.
Also Available — Ask When You Call
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.
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.
Trades
Handyman, painting, mechanics, welding, gunsmith
Food
Catering, meal prep, coffee, ice cream, candy
Services
Tutoring, property mgmt, senior care, insurance
Retail
Boutique, thrift, surplus, print-on-demand
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
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
Digital Guides You Can Get Today
While the 110+ business start guides above finish their rollout, this one is ready right now — written from real experience, delivered instantly, no waiting.
USAJOBS Guide & Workbook for Veterans
Stop guessing at your federal resume. Step by step through the real USAJOBS and USA Staffing application process — the two-page federal resume rule, how the occupational questionnaire is actually scored, and what a completed application really looks like. Written by a 20-year veteran (Marine Corps and Army, retired Sergeant First Class) who processed federal personnel actions and delivered TAP transition briefings.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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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 GroupFree Calculators
Spreadsheets we built ourselves. Download them right now — nothing to sign up for, nothing to pay, no trial version.
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.