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Building Trades Take the Initiative in Training Private Ryan Here McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Helmets to Hardhats connects returning veterans with industry
(6/14/2004 Issue)

San Francisco-based Bechtel has written in all of its PLAs that it will utilize H2H personnel, including the expansion Tucson, Arizona’s, $939-million, 400-MW Springerville coal-fired powerplant. Bechtel’s PLA guarantees it "will expend every effort to ensure that up to 10% of all non-journeymen dispatched to the Springerville Expansion Project from each signatory union will be military or veterans under the H2H program."

There is also assistance for engineers leaving the military. Ed Gibson, who served in the Navy and the Army, as well as a stint as Chief of Military Personnel at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, uses his vast network on a pro bono basis to help engineers find jobs. "They never would have heard about the job opening or the company without a personal recommendation or knowing someone," he says. Gibson claims to have helped about 125 engineers annually.

H2H will come full circle next year. The second part of the program, called Hardhats to Helmets, will encourage construction companies and unions to urge their employees to join the National Guard.

Organizations Helping Veterans Transition

Helmets to Hardhats
www.helmetstohardhats.org/ toll free phone: (866) 741-6210

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