Our veterans are certainly in the spotlight these days. At Tyonek Native Corporation, we are proud to say that over half of our 1000 employees nationwide are veterans. Although Tyonek’s veteran hire numbers are higher than most, Alaska Native and American Indian government contractors often rely upon veterans to fill their ranks. Native American companies have found veteran employees and veteran and service disabled companies to be among their most experienced and capable partners in business.
A couple of weeks ago, Senator Mark Begich chaired a Senate Democratic Leadership Committee meeting on Veterans’ Affairs and Job Creation. We were pleased to be invited to participate, along with several other organizations and companies.
It was an honor to sit with the Senate Democratic leadership and business people from around the country to talk about ways to transition veterans to the civilian work force and increase hiring and partnering on contracts. We look forward to sharing and promoting these ideas and initiatives with other Alaska Native corporation managers.
Bart Garber
CEO, Tyonek Native Corporation
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Add commentI wonder
How many of those 1,000 employees are hired in Alaska, and how many of them are hired under Lower-48 federal contracts due to preferential Alaska Native corporation contracting rules?
Halliburton
While your wondering that, I certainly hope you're wondering about Halliburton also. You know Dick Cheney's foreign based conglomerate, that's made quite a few hundreds of billions off our invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Based in Dubai. Probably with the same conglomerates that talked Junior Bush into allowing them to take over Port security in America.
I see that any program or policy that benefits the Indigenous, is immediately attacked and morphed and defunded into inefficiency, so the money could go to the more needier individuals and entities who bribed whoever in the Department of Interior, take yer pick.
I recall Halliburton and its subsidiaries are responsible for shoddy construction work that killed and kills tens of our military kids. What other errands does this foreign based conglomerate do for its minions in all three branches of the government?
Some of you idiots that voted for the crooks that brought on the outsourcing of jobs and industries to countries with no extradition treaties with us, are responsible for the state of affairs America is in, with legalized corruption, conflict of interest and collusion in the government, so you otta shut up and let responsible Americans take over, investigate, and jail whoever brought this on.
Why don't the Indigenous kick the parasites that are leeching off the Indigenous peoples natural resources, off and make them reimburse them for the resources stolen? Where are the leaders that think outside the box, instead of inside a box of preset colonial parameters which legalizes theft and murder, and subjugates the Indigenous to watching their resources and lands get stolen, and think they can do nothing about it. Stck inside a box while the crooks smirk and wallow around in the profits off stolen resources and lands. Worldwide too.