With veterans being honored all over the world on November 11 — Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day and Armistice Day in other countries — General Electric is saluting GE employees this week who have served their country and now are putting the skills they honed in the military to work right here. Today, in the audio slide show (link below), we meet James Eldridge, who works at GE Aviation in Lynn, Mass. Having joined the U.S. Marines in 1997, James has been on tours of duty all over the world. He’s now drawing on those experiences to help other GE veterans as vice president of the veterans' council at the Lynn plant. As James says, “There's leadership in war. You definitely learn to take initiative and take charge and try to do the right thing. In the Marines, we're taught that we need to get the job done no matter what it takes. I'm in manufacturing. I try to apply all of the fundamentals I learned in the Marines in here.”
http://www.gereports.com/manufacturing-in-massachusetts-send-in-the-marines/
* Watch a video: “From GE Global Research to Camp Liberty, Baghdad”
* Read “The military precision driving GE’s precision products” on GE Reports
* Visit GE’s veterans Web site
* Watch a slide show about how engines are built at our Lynn, Mass. plant
* Meet some of the people working at the Lynn plant on GE's “Autographs” Web site
* Read about G.I. Jobs ranking GE 15th on its list of the Top 100 Military Friendly Employers
