On this Veterans Day, a former Navy air traffic controller is thankful that he was able to transition to corporate life with Subway restaurants.

Frank Buffone is a senior manager of restaurant operations with the Milford-based sandwich chain restaurant. He says his time in the military prepared him to enter the civilian workforce.

"I actually left for the Navy on the night I graduated from high school," says Buffone. "So, the ceremony ended at 8 o'clock and I was in a van for boot camp at 6 a.m. the next morning."

Buffone is a success story. The Bureau of Labor Statistic says that as of 2013, 722,000 military veterans are unemployed.

The federal government has a website where veterans can search for work and employers can learn the value of hiring a veteran. Companies like Subway feel former military members bring a wealth of knowledge and abilities to the table.

"They come to us with a very strong work ethic and a great commitment to get the job done," says Lisa Shea, who is Subway's director of human resources.