An Army Corps of Engineers program teaches former troops how to do curation work, while also preparing them for jobs in other fields. From AmHomefront ⤵️
Matthew Hanks labels a pottery shard in the Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis office. Hanks is part of the Corps Veterans Curation Program, which employs veterans to help maintain artifacts unearthed in various Corps projects.
“I’ve seen a lot of unique artifacts,” said fellow Army vet and lab technician Chris Miller. “A lot of what people would call rocks — a lot of rocks.”Veterans Curation Program The Corps has a lot to maintain: more than 50,000 cubic feet of records and artifacts, Knobbe said. That’s enough material to completely fill about 21 shipping containers.
The direct work with archives and historical objects is what attracted Matthew Hanks, who served as a Marine Corps combat engineer for four years. In the lab, Miller does less physical work and gets coached on things like cover letters and resumes, he said.
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