Army Veteran Retrained After Service Steve McNulty is an Army veteran with 13 years of service. After enlisting, he spent 8 years on active duty. The first four years in the infantry and the second four as a paralegal with the Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. During high school at Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Tech, Steve was in the automotive program. They discovered this when he was training in California and selected him to drive tanks. Tank drivers do more than drive. They handle the maintenance and mechanical upkeep of the machines as well. Several years later the terrorist attacks on 9/11 motivated McNulty to re-enlist. He found himself back in the infantry, this time through the National Guard in the 181st Light Infantry. While he was stationed in Cuba, Steve’s wife gave birth to their daughter. He truly regrets having missed almost the entire first year of her life. Once that tour was finished he left the military to focus on his family. Outside the military, McNulty has spent several years in manufacturing. Most recently he was the manufacturing manager at a company that was bought out by another. He stayed to help with the transition but ultimately the business was relocated. They offered him a job at the new facility in Buffalo, NY but uprooting his family was not an option. When the local facility closed he became unemployed. Steve has always enjoyed working with his hands and when the Veterans’ Employment Representative in the Lowell Career Center told him about the MassMEP Accelerated CNC Skills Training he was very interested. He knew about CNC machines but had never learned how to operate them and found the idea very appealing. Steve feels that the training has been very much on point to help the students build a foundation for doing the actual hands-on CNC work. Like everyone in the class, he wishes for more hands-on time on the machines because he finds it so enjoyable and loves to practice what they are learning. Steve has joined a company in North Andover. 

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