Where are you in your transition?
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Planning stages are recommended review times, not eligibility decisions or official benefit deadlines. Earlier actions remain available for catch-up. Live official guidance controls. A tick means you reviewed it here, not that an official application is complete.
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About Steady Bearing
Maintaining direction despite changing conditions.
A free, quick-glance roadmap for service members of every branch and rank. Start while you're still in, and know where to go next after you're out.
Phase One (24 to 12 months out) is written. The later phases are still being written and are marked that way.
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