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CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Hiring Our Heroes program held a seminar discussing the different opportunities their program provides to U.S. service members and their spouses at the Pacific Views Event Center aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Feb. 25, 2015.
Lieutenant Gen. David H. Berger, the I Marine Expeditionary Force commanding general, spoke at the conference and discussed the importance of successfully transitioning Marines and Sailors out of the Marine Corps into the civilian word.
“There are about 50,000 Marines and Sailors when you count up everyone from Pendleton, Twentynine Palms, Miramar and Yuma,” Berger said. “You are helping them and you are helping our families, so I think my job here is to tell you thanks.”
The Hiring Our Heroes program explained their operating procedures and the benefits they provide to service members and their spouses, such as apprenticeships, job opportunities and transition aid.
Dr. Susan Kelly, the Department of Defense Transitioning to Veterans Program Office director, said many jobs service members do in the armed forces correlate directly with jobs in the civilian sector.
“Every commander needs to ensure that their service members are meeting the career manual standards and that they have a viable individual transition plan, and if they don’t, there is a warm handover to our interagency partners in the area that the service member will be relocating,” Kelly said. “We have deliberately created a bridge between the services and our interagency partners in the community in which they are moving.”
The abilities and life style that U.S. service members have adapted over their time in the armed forces creates an effective person to be introduced into the civilian work force when they are ready to transition from the military, Berger said.
“In a four-year term, officers or enlisted it doesn’t matter, they are most likely going to make at least two deployments to different parts of the world in different capacities,” said Berger. “Our service members need to be that flexible to go to the Middle East, the Pacific or South America and that ability to adapt produces the kind of person that can literally fit in anywhere because we make them fit in anywhere.”
Kelly said they are closer than ever before to completing the circuit that would bring capable service members into the civilian work force successfully.
“We have all of the pieces that we’ve never had in place before,” said Kelly. “Now we just need to join hands and put this puzzle together and I invite all of you to please do that with us.”
For more information visit www.hiringourheroes.org.
| Date Taken: | 02.25.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 02.26.2015 18:28 |
| Story ID: | 155508 |
| Location: | CAMP PENDLETON, CA, US |
| Web Views: | 88 |
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