Veterans already face challenges finding work when they come home from war–and sometimes, military job fairs don’t help matters. Many only have employers referring you to a website with no open positions, or for-profit schools trying to get your GI Bill benefits.

This week, you are in luck. NewsChannel 3 found one job fair where companies are indeed hiring for jobs open right now–and lots of them.

More than 40 companies will be at the Sandler Center in Virginia Beach Town Center on Thursday, for the Recruit Military job fair, only open to military veterans and their spouses.

“We pride ourselves in our ability to take experienced veterans and place them in the work force,” said Chuck St. Pierre, the Chief Operating officer for Triquetra Technologies.

Based in Newport News, the company is looking to fill at least 13 different overseas positions for software engineers and intelligence specialists.

Two swim advisories have been announced today.

The first was announced for Virginia Beach from the Chesapeake Bay between Wake Forest Street and Rockbridge Road.

The second is in Dare County for the Jockey’s Ridge area in Kill Devil Hills.

Both advisories come after recent tests showed bacteria levels in the water exceeded safe standards.

The advisory does not affect the Virginia Beach oceanfront or resort area.

Signs will be posted on the beach between Wake Forest Street and Rockbridge Road to alert the public of the swimming and wading advisory. 

A student at Virginia Tech who asked ”what if” now has the full attention of weather experts all over. 

This student says tornadoes, like the one that hit Pulaski last year, are more common than even experts think. 

Her research showed that sometimes tornadoes actually become long and tight as they drop down a mountainside, causing the cyclone to spin faster and become meaner. There’s evidence that happened in Pulaski, Virginia. That theory is called “Vorticity Stretching.”