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As the owners were preparing to open Our Time Kitchen, a place to help women of color and LGBTIQ chefs start their own businesses, thousands of dollars in donated equipment was stolen from their location in Old Goucher.

The arrival of the new businesses is the latest sign of rejuvenation for a gritty thoroughfare.

The arrival of the new businesses is the latest sign of rejuvenation for a gritty thoroughfare.

The jobs number shows the unemployment rate is ticking up for military veterans and for veterans who worked as military veterans finding work in the medical field has been especially difficult. nbcs erin gilchrist has more on their struggles and whats being done to change it. >> as an enlisted sailor eric dodson trained as a hospital corpsman assisting with mass casualty incidents. >> we have 20 people coming in, find someone to take care of them. >> after his military service, dodson volunteere...

Looking into this and joins me now. we are talking about veterans that served as medics and come into civilian life and not getting hired? >> its all about paperwork. the civilian health care world needs to see the paper, the licenses, the certifications and rightly so to show the folks have experience but you have army medics and navy corpsmen who developed all this great experience in the field and they just dont want all that experience to be ignored. as an enlisted sailor, eric dodson spent ...

>> reporter: did anyone ask about your work experience, your life experience? >> a lot of it was very much hey, this is impressive resume, we love this, wed love to have you but you dont have the right certifications. >> reporter: dodsons problem is not unique. >> at a time of great need for health care workers, were turning away some of the nations most qualified experienced health care workers. >> reporter: according to the call of duty endowment, a handful of states have clear pathways for mi...

Certifications. >> dodsons problem is not unique. >> at a time of great need for health care workers were turning away some of the nations most qualified and experienced health care workers. >> according to the call of duty endowment, only a handful of states have pathways from military health care to civilian health care jobs. >> you are confronted with these bewildering regulations and stooms a lot of these folks just give up and find other career which is is a real shame. >> the military has ...

Field as a civilian. nbcs aaron gilchrest has more on why and whats being done to change it. >> reporter: as an enlisted sailor, eric dodson spent 11 years in the u.s. navy working as a corpsman. working on the front lines, assisting with surgeries and mass casualty incidents. >> and it was hey, we have like 20 people coming in. take care of some. find someone to take care of them. >> reporter: after his military service, dodson volunteered as a registered nurse at a covid field hospital in new ...

thursday, january 20th 3 3 3 3 maps-fiber-maps a volunteer firefigher dies while trying to rescue people trapped in an apartment fire in baltimore county. joel d. smith is live in parkville with more on how this hero, got stuck in harms way. good morning megan, were here at 30 dowling circce... (ad lib) where 43 year old volunteer firefighter mark falkenhan was badly injured last night fighting the 4 alarm fire here.... and he eventually died at the hospital from the call came in arou...

providence--aps please a volunteer firefigher dies while searching foo trapped residents in a four alarm apartment fire in baltimore county. joel d. smith is live in parkville with more on this hero, and why there was almost even more tragedy last night. good morning joel d. good morning megan, were here at 30 dowling circle... (ad lib) wherr 43 year old volunteer firefighter mark falkenhan was badly injured last night fighting the 4 alarm fire here.... and he eventually 4 alarm fire h...