Much like Jaguar Land Rover's own program, Ford is training military veterans for apprenticeships and entry-level civilian positions in welding in the auto industry and beyond.
Detroit Free Press reports the program, a partnership between the automaker, the United Auto Workers and Wounded Warriors Family Support, will teach welding to eight selected veterans of Enduring Freedom, Desert Storm and Desert Shield in a six-week course beginning this week. The course is being taught at the UAW Ford Technical Training Center.
The ultimate goal of the program is to send veterans into a profession where some 290,000 skilled welders will be needed by 2020, as explained to the students by UAW vice president James Settles Jr.:
The worst thing you can do is train people with the expectation they'll get jobs and they don't get jobs.
Aside from welding, Wounded Warriors founder and president Col. John Folsom is also looking into a 10-week machining course.
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