Labor Commissioner Click Bishop addresses graduates of the General Maintenance Technology “bootcamp,” a partnership of the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Southwest Alaska Vocational & Education Center and CH2M Hill.

Under a new program sponsored by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, transitioning soldiers and veterans will go straight to jobs on Alaska’s North Slope. The graduates and their CH2M Hill instructors at a ceremony at the Southwest Alaska Vocational & Education Center in King Salmon on Friday: (front row, from left) Labor Commissioner Click Bishop; Spc. Thomas Noden, Alaska Army National Guard, served in Iraq – Dillingham; Spc. Travis David, U.S. Army, served in Iraq and Kosovo – Tok; Lance Cpl. Sam Gregory, U.S. Marines – Anchorage; Spc. Robert Silas II, U.S. Army – Northway; Capt. William Hagan, U.S. Army, served at Guantanamo Bay – Palmer; Senior Airman Kenneth Gross, Alaska Air National Guard, served in Iraq – Anchorage; Sgt. 1st Class Amos Jeffery, U.S. Army, served in Iraq – Anchorage; Sgt. Clinton Cummings, U.S. Army, served in Iraq – Fairbanks; (back row, from left) co-instructors Craig Houston and Rodney Jones, CH2M Hill foremen; Petty Officer 3rd Class Gavin McAree, U.S. Navy – Fairbanks; Spc. Brad Tanner, U.S. Army, served in Iraq – Wasilla; Senior Airman Lance Lindquist, U.S. Air Force, served in Iraq – Wasilla; Cpl. Edward Williams, Alaska Army National Guard, served in Iraq – Wasilla; Staff Sgt. Joshua Huff, U.S. Air Force, served in Iraq & Afghanistan – Palmer; Spc. Steven Belanger, Alaska Army National Guard – Anchorage; Staff Sgt. Justin Brenot, U.S. Army, served in Iraq – Fort Wainwright; Sgt. 1st Class Timothy Dingey, U.S. Army, served in Iraq – Fort Wainwright; Spc. Darrell Salmon, Alaska Army National Guard – Beaver; Petty Officer 2nd Class Todd Groat, U.S. Navy – North Pole; Sgt. Charles Frazier, U.S. Army – Anchorage; Greg Cashen, executive director, Alaska Workforce Investment Board.

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