Pilot Media - Veterans Day 2015

HONORING AND REMEMBERING

THE BRAVE VETERANS WHO HAVE SERVED OUR NATION TO PRESERVE THE FREEDOM WE HOLD SO DEAR

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Pilot Media is pleased to salute our Veterans.

Hampton Roads is home to the nation’s largest population of active duty and retired military members and their families. Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, Marines, and Navy…every branch valiantly serves to protect our freedom and way of life.

On Veterans Day, we join a grateful nation to HONOR THEIR SERVICE. The Wounded Warrior Project is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to raise awareness and enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members. Its mission is to honor and empower wounded warriors.

We encourage our readers to take a moment to reflect and give thanks.

To donate to the Wounded Warrior Project go to: www.woundedwarriorproject.org

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The phone rings almost every day. “The callers want to know, how do we hire your veterans?� says Dr. Bruce Brunson, executive director of the Center for Military and Veterans Education at Tidewater Community College. “If you have veterans, you’ll attract companies, so it’s great for economic development,� he says.

Local municipalities are well aware of the fact that veterans are a valuable asset to the region, says Brunson. “I’m on several committees – we all know it’s a huge plus to retain veterans for the type and quality of workforce they provide.�

How did veterans make it onto employers’ most wanted lists? Allow Brunson to count the ways. “They already have a work ethic and reliability instilled in them and employers are looking for that,�

Brunson says. “Veterans are used to being held accountable and they have leadership skills. They’re adaptable;

they have to be since they change commands every two or so years.

And they’re used to getting along with different types of people from all over the country.�

As for focus – “You tell them here’s the mission, here’s what we’re doing, and they go do it,� Brunson says, no hand-holding required.

Brunson points to recent statistics from Army OneSource surveys that determined a high percentage of employers believe veterans have a strong sense of responsibility (97%), will see a task through to completion (96%), can work as a member of a team (94%), have the ability to work under pressure (94%) and have a high degree of professionalism (93%).

Terry Bond, a recruitment specialist with Sentara Healthcare, agrees with that assessment. “When we hire veterans, they bring a lot of skills and experience to the mix,� he says. “It’s the can-do spirit, the resourcefulness, the willingness to pitch in and do

what’s got to be done that tips the balance in their favor. “Our problem is that separating military don’t often think of healthcare as an opportunity unless you’re a doctor or nurse, but it takes as much to run a hospital as it does to run a ship,� says Bond. “I keep beating the drum, think of healthcare.�

When veterans do come to work for Sentara, Bond says they fit right in with Sentara’s culture of investing in the community. “These folks know how to volunteer; it gives us that local extension.�

So why hire a vet? “I’ll tell you about one company here that hired a veteran who in turn hired more veterans,� says Brunson. “The company’s absentee rate and problems were drastically reduced, along with turnover.� So the company did the only sensible thing – they hired more vets. “They’re almost 80 percent veterans now,� says Brunson. “Vets are a great return on investment.�

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While veterans call all 50 states home, California, Texas and Florida attract the largest numbers – they rank 1st, 2nd and 3rd in veteran population and are the only states with over a million vets. Virginia ranks 7th with almost 900,000 veterans.

Virginia comes in 4th for putting the largest numbers of vets to work – over half a million veterans draw a paycheck in the Old Dominion. The state claims first place honors for the number of veteran-owned small businesses (1000+) and percentage of veterans in full-time employment (87.2%).

Nationwide, almost 27% of veterans 25 years or older have earned bachelor’s degrees or higher.

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Gone are the U.S. veterans of WWI, once over 4 million strong; the last known American survivor of the war to end all wars passed away in 2011. The number of living WWII vets has dwindled from over 16 million to under a million, most of them now in their 90s. Living Korean vets? Less than 2 million. Even the youngest Viet Nam veterans are bumping senior status. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re losing generations of heroes, their stories, the things they accomplished,â&#x20AC;? says Commander Sara Pickett, an RN with the U.S. Navy.

When she trained hospital corpsmen at the Naval Hospital Corps School, Pickett was determined to instill in her young charges an awareness of the sacrifices of those who had served before them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They did things weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never done, with equipment weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never have to try and work with, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve experienced things we never will,â&#x20AC;? says Pickett.

As she sent her corpsmen off to assignments in VA hospitals, Pickett wanted them to offer excellent care â&#x20AC;&#x201C; â&#x20AC;&#x153;But I also wanted them to remember where these vets came from, to listen to their stories, to honor them,â&#x20AC;? she says.

Commander Anne Brown, also an RN with the U.S. Navy, says she takes the opportunity to talk with aging veterans every chance she gets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The number of WWII vets is just plummeting, so if I see one in the pharmacy with their Pearl Harbor or Iwo Jima hat on, I sit down and talk to them,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I encourage the young corpsmen to sit down and talk with them too.â&#x20AC;?

Sometimes the initial response from her corpsmen is less than enthusiastic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; until they actually try it, Brown says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once they start talking to these retirees, it gives them the feeling of carrying on a tradition, of being a part of a bigger picture and they understand the impact they have.â&#x20AC;?

Pickett used to read her corpsmen a letter written by an Air Force captain who was walking toward the entrance of the medical facility at Ft. Belvoir one day just as a colonel approached. A few feet in front of the colonel shuffled an elderly veteran in his 80s. As the captain aimed a salute at the colonel, greeting him with a cheery â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Good morning, sir,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; the aging veteran visibly straightened and returned her salute with pride.

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