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With New Locations, VEEP Helps More Veterans Go From 'Brotherhood to Brotherhood'
Salt Lake City Local 354’s VEEP graduation cohort from earlier this year. Greg McMurphy from the Electrical Training Alliance is to the far left, Utah Electrical Training Alliance Director Mike Lanoue is in a dark shirt and tie, JATC Instructor Nick Bryant is fourth from the right, and Local 354 organizer and Eight District Veterans Committee representative Tony Sorro is to the far right.
November 7, 2024
Glynnis Landfair has firsthand experience with how military members feel when their active duty ends.
She once had to work three jobs to support herself after leaving the Air Force in 1990, even though she had proven herself as a leader. Landfair earned the rank of sergeant and was a dedicated crew chief for fighter jets.
Loneliness. A lack of direction. Not being part of a team or something larger than herself. She experienced all of it.
Fortunately, her sister, Shawnna, was an IBEW member and journeyman wireman who "nagged" her about the benefits of membership. That persuaded Landfair to apply for the apprenticeship program at Salt Lake City Local 354 — not far from where she finished her military career at Hill Air Force Base in Utah.
She was accepted and went on to a distinguished career as a journeyman inside wireman who now serves on the Eighth District Veterans Committee.
FULL story: https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/24Daily/2411/241107_VEEP-Helps