FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Specialist Gregory Beeman, an infantryman in the 82nd Airborne Division, entered the final 48 hours of his Army career this week, and also began to tentatively look at civilian employment opportunities, Duffel Blog has learned.

“I figure I might, I don’t know … ” said the married father of two, leaning back and making “psh psh psh” noises with his mouth. “Maybe try flipping houses? I watch that one show, ‘Flip Or Flop,’ where those two brothers buy old run-down houses and sell them for millions of dollars. I figure, I can do that. I’m pretty good at hammering nails. I get them in the board almost every time.”

Beeman related that he is also, at the behest of his wife, looking into a job in “high finance,” which has taken him to various check-cashing joints to ask for applications. He also briefly considered a career in law enforcement, but Amy, his wife, shot that option down because her cousin in a policeman in Biloxi and one time he heard some gunshots.

“I also though…