Manufacturing in Massachusetts: Send in the Marines
With veterans being honored all over the world on November 11 — Veterans Day in the U.S. and Remembrance Day and Armistice Day in other countries — we’re saluting GE employees this week who have served their country and now are putting the skills they honed in the military to work right here. Yesterday, we met Staff Sgt. Justin Brumberg, who went from GE’s research labs to Iraq and back. Today, in the audio slide show below, we meet James Eldridge, who works at GE Aviation in Lynn, Massachusetts. Having joined the U.S. Marines in 1997, James has been on tours of duty all over the world. He’s now drawing on those experiences to help other GE veterans as vice president of the veterans’ council at the Lynn plant. As James says, “There’s leadership in war. You definitely learn to take initiative and take charge and try to do the right thing. In the Marines, we’re taught that we need to get the job done no matter what it takes. I’m in manufacturing. I try to apply all of the fundamentals I learned in the Marines in here.”
* Watch a video: “From GE Global Research to Camp Liberty, Baghdad”
* Read “The military precision driving GE’s precision products” on GE Reports
* Visit GE’s veterans Web site
* Watch a slide show about how engines are built at our Lynn, Mass. plant
* Meet some of the people working at the Lynn plant on our “Autographs” website
* Read about G.I. Jobs ranking GE 15th on its list of the Top 100 Military Friendly Employers
We’ll be back on Thursday, following the Veterans Day holiday in the U.S. See you at the parade!
Immelt…what happen??? No more money on your balance sheet for GE Capital??? Selling off The Security division…what happen you can’t handle the pressure! The best is yet to come Immelt!!!
I know GE is a great company than why is the stock so low ?
I served my apprenticeship in Lynn starting in 1940 and ending up in the supercharger building 32 and made the over speed governer for the first engine I think it was called the IA It was some time
back then when we did not know what we made or what it was for.
Till later, then we were proud.
I was real happy to buy into GE while I was working. It was a good stock company and was paying good dividends so I added it to my retirement portfolio most of it was bought in the high forties,som e in the fifties and then along came Jeffie and he sent it over to China and let the US kiss his ass so I got out of 12 hundred shares at 15.+ pennies.Good Boy Jeffie. You really help us old retires in the US. I know this will not pass muster with ole Jeffies hinchmen reviewing it.
Great Job SSG Brumberg and James Eldridge. Thanks for your service. Few truely know the sacrifices you and your family have made for our country. You make all of us here at GE proud to work with you every day!