Mark Kelly spent 25 years as a fighter pilot and served in Iraq and Afghanistan before retiring from the U.S. Air Force in 2009.
After entering civilian life and earning a master’s degree in engineering management, the retired colonel started looking for opportunities to run a small business and asked FranNet, a franchising consultant, to help him with ideas.
One of those ideas was computer services franchisor TeamLogic IT, which is waiving its normal $40,000 franchise fee for the first 10 qualified veterans who apply. TeamLogic is one of hundreds of franchises that responded to the International Franchise Association’s “Operation Enduring Opportunity†campaign, which urges franchisors to hire and recruit 75,000 veterans and spouses and 5,000 wounded vets by 2014. Full post.