Hero 2 Hired program helps redeploying reserve and National Guard soldiers

Photo By Sgt. Belynda Faulkner | 2nd Lt. Joseph Spears, 113th Military Police Company, headquartered in Brandon, Miss., enters his personal information in the "Heroes 2 Hired" Kiosk at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, April 30. To better equip redeploying soldiers in finding jobs during their redeployment, the Army implemented the H2H program, which is part of the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program. (Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Williams)  

CAMP SHELBY, MISSISSIPPI, UNITED STATES

04.30.2012

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Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center

By Belynda Faulkner
177th Armored Brigaded

CAMP SHELBY, Miss. – “For the first time, it seems like all the entities are working like one,” said Sgt. Maj. Julio Rivera, Mississippi National Guard’s 112th Military Police Battalion. “Our soldiers have been given an opportunity to be competitive in this job market.”

Rivera, a native of Puerto Rico returned from his sixth deployment last week. On Monday, April 30, he was present as First Army and National Guard Employment Representatives placed a new Hero 2 Hired Kiosk at the Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center internet café. The H2H kiosk allows service members to register to participate in the Hero 2 Hired program.

“Once they register, they can then go to a job fair, a web site and get the rest of the benefits of the H2H program,” explained Lynn Holloway, DoD Yellow Ribbon Reintegration program specialist for Louisiana and Mississippi.

First Army worked in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, state agencies, the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Program, and the U. S. Army Reserve Command’s Employer Partnership Team to initiate, host, and support the Department of Defense’s new ‘Hero 2 Hire’ jobs program at its demobilization centers across the country, beginning at Camp Shelby.

• Date Taken: 04.30.2012
• Date Posted: 05.02.2012 10:41
• Story ID: 87729
• Location: CAMP SHELBY, MISSISSIPPI, US