"Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds." — Navy SEAL team saying Last year, the George W. Bush Center identified 45,000 non-profit veteran service organizations in the U.S. Clearly, there are a lot of good-hearted and patriotic Americans who want to help veterans with their employment, health, social, and commemorative needs. Yet as with most service initiatives, it is at the individual level that people can do the greatest good for veterans. By understanding the needs of job seeking veterans of your acquaintance, you can have a profoundly positive effect on one or many members of America's finest. A difficult aspect of the transition to civilian life is the feeling of being alone. Military life is many things both good and bad but little of merit is accomplished without the collective effort of teams of all sizes. The job search process, however, is profoundly lonely. Candidly, success or failure in the job search is indeed primarily the result of individual focus, effort, and luck. But the veteran job seeker is not alone and the many citizens who seek opportunities to assist are proof of this support and sea of goodwill. Good intentions are not enough, though, and some well-intentioned support efforts can actually be counterproductive.