Tom Cal, CFA ⋅ San Francisco, CA Army Veteran, Investment Manager ⋅ 25 years experience

Joseph,
Good question.
I found this on the MC4 LinkedIn group. It might help.
http://travisafrc.com/storage/afm_uploads/TAP/Military%20to%20Civilian%20Terms.pdf#!

"...One should use caution including C-level titles as described here, the rest of the document does provides some good ideas for crafting a resume."

Also see:
http://news.clearancejobs.com/2010/05/10/common-military-to-civilian-translations/

https://www.orioninternational.com/jobseekers_TC_translating.aspx

Source:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupItem?view=&gid=3722272&type=member&item=5806432751611555844&qid=78191402-8901-4bf3-8bd5-9eb78813c699&trk=groups_items_see_more-0-b-ttl

Dana Shields ⋅ Roswell, GA Aon ⋅ 20 years experience

Jargon can be your worst enemy on a resume, depending upon the job you're trying to get. If the job is the near-exact civilian equivalent of what you did in the military, then it's okay. But most of the time, veterans are trying to get jobs well outside their line of military expertise. So it's a good idea to stay away from acronyms or 'techie' language that has no civilian equivalent.

The opposite is also true: everybody understands MONEY. If you can translate what you did for the military into concrete dollar savings (by having increased efficiency or effectiveness), you can morph nearly any sort of specialization into something attractive to a company.

Hard work alone doesn't really cut it anymore. In many circumstances, you need to prove that you're able to improve processes, or, at the very least, easily adapt to change initiated by someone else's improvements. Unfortunately, veterans sometimes have a reputation as being rigid or inflexible. I believe this is an broadly unfair assessment. Nonetheless, it IS a stereotype veterans need to work harder to overcome than the non-military candidate.

Here are some other tangibles that look good on a resume when I'm reviewing them:

-reduced time to delivery
-increased product quality
-improved safety record

Bottom line? Who was your customer and what exactly did you do for them?

The rest is all swag.