Writing in the Daily Caller, TurboVets President Britt K. Slabinski — Master Chief Special Warfare Operator (SEAL), U.S. Navy (Ret.) and Medal of Honor recipient — makes the case that the country's obligation to its veterans does not end when they take off the uniform. An average of more than seventeen veterans die by suicide every day, and nearly one million more wait six months or longer for benefits they have already earned.

Slabinski examines the September 8, 2026 executive order directing the Department of War and the Department of Veterans Affairs to permanently share military records within 180 days, treating AI-powered benefit applications, job matching built around military skills, and interoperable systems between the two agencies as contractual requirements rather than aspirations. He argues the order confronts a structural failure decades in the making: after 25 years of continuous war, transition planning was never built to match the scale of the force coming home, and much of what veterans struggle with is the sudden loss of purpose and structure, not combat trauma alone.

He also argues that veterans remain one of the country's most underused talent pools, and that corporations should treat veteran hiring as strategic talent acquisition rather than public relations.

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