Abstract: The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how military veterans describe their transition to civilian employment and adjustment to civilian organizational culture in the Southern Gulf United States. The theoretical framework was Schlossberg's Transition Theory 4S, situation, self, strategies, and support, and the conceptual theory of Bandura's self-efficacy. Two research questions focused on how military veterans who separated from the military describe their experience of finding and integrating into civilian employment and how military veterans who separated from the military describe their experience of moving away from the military culture and adjusting to the culture of civilian organizations. Fifteen recently transitioned military veterans participated in semistructured interviews, and seven participated in two focus groups. Braun and Clarke's six steps of thematic analysis supported data analysis. Six themes emerged from the data analysis: Military veterans' purposeful preparation, purposeful use of programs and resources, making connections, barriers to civilian employment, adjusting to civilian organizations, and ethos, cultural, and professional attributes that contribute to adapting to civilian organizations. Military veterans need time to prepare for separation and integration into civilian employment. The researcher recommended further research to define "military" and "veteran" friendly, standardized transition programs and participation in transition programs.