The federal government is supposed to be a model employer for returning veterans — and military service is meant to actually help a candidate in his or her quest for government employment. 

But an open records request by The Washington Post found that 18 percent of last year’s 1,548 complaints about job discrimination against service members involved federal agencies. 

According to the newspaper, about 123,000 of the 855,000 reservists and Guard members have jobs with the federal government, and more than a quarter of federal employees are veterans. 

Read the full story, then read a recent Civil Beat story about one Hawaii veteran’s long job hunt.