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Veterans hired at Sandia Labs triples over past year

November 6, 2018 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The number of military veterans hired at Sandia tripled the last fiscal year, and marked the highest veteran hiring rate in the history of Sandia National Laboratories.As part of a broader laboratories recruiting strategy, Sandia engaged in a new delibe…

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: diversity, employment, military, Sandia, Sandia Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, veteran, veterans

From Albuquerque to Afghanistan and back again

November 30, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Located between vastly dry desert terrain to one side and beautifully lush terrain — known as the “Green Zone” — to the other, a 20-year-old U.S. Marine found himself in the town of Sangin, one of the deadliest places in Afghanistan. Sangin was unlike any other region in...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: disabled veterans, explosives, marine corps, veteran

First women join Sandia hiring program for combat-injured veterans

May 26, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Two young women, one disabled by a mortar blast in Afghanistan and the other injured in several battles while helping women in Baghdad, are the first two women veterans in Sandia National Laboratories’ Wounded Warrior Career Development Program (WWCDP). The WWCDP specializes in hiring disabled combat veterans...

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: Army, disabilities, disabled veterans, hiring, veteran, women, wounded, Wounded Warrior, WWCDP

Service dog helps Wounded Warrior on the job at Sandia Labs

August 11, 2015 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For the first time, Sandia National Laboratories has welcomed a service dog to its New Mexico campus as a workplace accommodation for a veteran living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).[caption id="" align="alignright" width="250"] Rob Mitchell…

Categories: HR / Personnel, Military / Defense

Topics: Animal Humane, Paws and Stripes, service dog, veteran, Wounded Warrior