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How to hire military veterans as equipment operators and machine techs? AEMP has a guide for that.
Spurred by a lack of understanding, AEMP developed a guide to help construction industry employers hire veterans who lack civilian job searching skills.
May 31, 2018
Pickups
Chevy unveils Colorado ZH2, a camo-clad, fuel-cell pickup designed with the Army
After announcing the project last month, General Motors and the U.S. Army have taken the wraps off of their heavily modified, hydrogen fuel-cell-powered Chevrolet Colorado. Calling it the “most extreme off-road-capable fuel-cell-powered electric vehicle” GM has ever produced, the Colorado ZH2 was unveiled at the fall meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA). The […]
October 4, 2016
Business
JCB at work on 3 more military projects following success of HMEE high-speed, armored backhoe
Ten years into a successful run of manufacturing a high-speed, armored backhoe for the U.S. Army, the machine’s impact is still being felt at JCB, and especially at the company’s North American headquarters in Savannah, Georgia. In a recent report from the Savannah Morning News, JCB detailed how it won its initial $206 million contract—the […]
July 22, 2015
Gear
GEAR: U.S. Army buys Battelle’s bulletproof pickups
The U.S. Army deploys a lot of ground-based vehicles. If you don’t believe us, just take a look at this list. Unsurprisingly, a lot of those are trucks. The Army has a lot of supplies and people to move around and less-than-hospitable conditions to do so in. Most of the Army’s trucks are big, hulking […]
May 29, 2013
Business
$2.3 billion of 2014 Army budget goes to construction
Army officials recently took time to discuss their military branch’s $129.7 billion portion of the federal budget for the 2014 fiscal year, beginning October 1st. It should come to no surprise that the vast majority of that money, 44 percent or $56.6 billion, will go to military personnel. But about $2.3 billion is marked for “military construction, […]
April 15, 2013
Roadbuilding
JLG to build nearly 500 ATLAS II telescopic forklifts for Army
JLG Industries, Inc., an Oshkosh Corporation company, announced on June 1 that it has received an order to build 492 All Terrain Lifter Army System (ATLAS II) telescopic forklifts for the U.S. Army. The order has a value of $85.7 million, with units scheduled for delivery beginning in the fall of 2010. “This award is […]
June 4, 2010
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