Veterans find community, hard work in rare firefighting crew 1 SHARES Share it! On the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s only hotshot crew focused on recruiting veterans, members have traded assault rifles and other weapons of war for chain saws and shovels. Crew superintendent Michael McGirr said he and other managers took then-President Barack Obama’s initiative to hire veterans to heart. Of the 25 positions on the crew, 17 are filled by veterans, McGirr said. “After that, we thought we could be the first veterans hotshot crew in the nation,” Schott said.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 24, 2018 16:52 UTC