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A freak accident during a hellish sandstorm in Iraq shattered Gorman Penn's life, but the Navy Seabee didn't know how shattered it was until six months later. While recovering in a Naval hospital in San Diego, Penn learned of his impending medical discharge from the Navy. He didn't see that coming anymore than he saw the plywood that hit him.
"I started to cry," he recalls. "I loved the military. It was like they were taking my life away. I'm still trying to make peace with it."
As part of that peacemaking, Penn, 45, began a career in information technology (IT) after he left the Navy in August 2007. "I have a lot of passion for it," he says. "I like the fact that IT changes all the time."
Gorman's enthusiasm was ignited by a program that gives Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with service-ending wounds and injuries an introduction to IT training in the hospital and encourages them to pursue civilian IT jobs and further education. The Department of Labor, the Naval Medical Center San Diego (NMCSD) Career Training Center and Cisco collaborated in a pilot program last year. Read More
BAMC San Antonio, TX
Classes start at BAMC in the first week of May, 2008.
Third series of TTA classes starts at Naval Medical Center (NMCSD), San Diego with 30+ students.
Graduation - NMCSD, March 2008
Laptop computer distribution - NMCSD
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