Frontiers November 2014 31 By Eric Fetters-Walp More than 21,000 veterans work at Boeing, representing about 14 percent of the global workforce. Frontiers salutes them, recognizing the value that service members, veterans and military families bring to their communities and jobs. Here, Boeing veterans share stories about their service, and reflect on what “duty, honor, country” means to them. In a speech to the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in May 1962, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said, “Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” For Matt Thomas, duty to his country meant using his law degree in a different way. That decision would lead him to advising military commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan as a member of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Thomas, now a contracts administrator with the P-8 program in Seattle, said his father served in the Army during World War II and then in the Navy Medical Corps. “He had Matt Thomas PHOTO: MARIAN LOCKHART/BOEING
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