Corps Employees share how lessons learned during military service have helped them at Boeing BY KATE EVERSON education hen then–Lt. Col. James Osowski, U.S. Army Reserve, was a production manager on the Long Beach, Calif., C-17 line in 2001, a colleague asked him if he found it ironic that he was building an airplane that could take him to war someday. As he deployed to Iraq nine years later on the second of three tours with the Army, he asked the crew chief what the fuselage number was on the C-17 he was about to board. Sure enough, it was one he had helped build. “It was pride; it was excitement— everything about it, knowing that I built it and that it was carrying these other people and me,” said Osowski, who served 12 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, 19 years in the Army and, as a program quality engineer in Huntington Beach, Calif., still serves in the Army Reserve. He said it made him realize “Everything we do affects everything we do.” The same could be said for each of the 21,000 self-identified veterans who apply lessons they W 28 | BOEING FRONTIERS
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