I'm on LinkedIN...and have had some pretty good contact on there so far.

Resume is up and running (had help from some HR friends as well as Univ. of Akron). I have applied for approximately 34 jobs (including companies that I mailed/emailed resumes to).

No military time and haven't worked for the government, but did work WITH government groups...USAID, UN, etc.

As someone in the oil and gas business i will tell you chk is not a good company to work for. It's a really high stress place and aside from engineers and field operators they don't pay worth what you'll go through.