With countries around the world honoring veterans this Wednesday — Veterans Day in the US and Remembrance Day and Armistice Day elsewhere — we’re taking a look this week at some of the GE employees who have served in the military and are now putting their leadership skills and uncompromising character to work across the company. There are currently more than 11,000 self-identified US veterans at GE — and many more who served their countries outside the US. In our first video, Staff Sergeant Justin Brumberg describes both his service in Iraq — and his work on pulse detonation engine technologies as a combustion research engineer in the lab at GE Global Research.

The veterans, reservists and active duty members of GE continue to seek ways to make the military a better and more efficient organization and they work tirelessly to make GE a better company. Meet Staff Sergeant Justin Brumberg, who served in Iraq and works in on pulse detonation engines at GE Global Research.

As Justin’s colleague, Adam Rasheed, writes on the Global Research team’s blog: “In addition to being a very capable researcher, he’s one of the most helpful guys around — always willing to lend a hand to a fellow colleague. He really understands the meaning of ‘team’ and he is also an exceptional leader. Above all, he’s a good friend. We’re very proud of Justin for all he has accomplished — and truly honored that he is part of the pulse detonation engine team.”

Well-timed to the Veterans Day holiday, G.I. Jobs just ranked GE 15th on its new 2010 list of the Top 100 Military Friendly Employers. It’s up one spot from last year – and marks GE’s 7th consecutive year on the list. Click here to read the entire list.

* Read “The military precision driving GE’s precision products” on GE Reports
* Visit GE’s veterans Web site
* Learn more about GE’s pulse detonation engine research