Jenna Dolan may seem like a typical GE Aviation manager but the pictures in her office point to a bigger story. Dolan is a former fighter jet pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps, where she spent a dozen year and was the first woman to fly AV-8B Harrier in combat. That was in Iraq, where Dolan, or “Dookie” to her fellow Devil Dogs, served two six-month tours. Dolan, who graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1996, is one of 10,000 U.S. military veterans employed by GE. This high number is no accident.
November 11, 2011
GE currently employs more than 10,000 veterans, or one in every 14 GE employees according to the company. They are also participating in a variety of programs to identify and hire returning veterans.
November 10, 2011
GE is veterans. Meet Hugh, Junior Officer Leadership Program (JOLP) member.
November 9, 2011
In September 2011, the world at large learned that some 250 GE engineers and manufacturing workers were honored by a U.S. president. That president was Ronald Regan and his presidential commendation took place 17 years ago, in August 1984. The reason for the delay was the workers’s top-secret mission, which was only just declassified: they were building key components of Cold War-era spy satellites, the Gambit and the Hexagon. GE designed and built recovery vehicles for the satellites, command systems, mission planning software and other systems critical for the mission.
November 7, 2011
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told nearly 5,000 Navy midshipmen, faculty and staff at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, that he is optimistic about America’s future and that winning requires that we work harder, work smarter and work together. Immelt said that there was “only one economic path for the future. We need growth; the kind of growth that creates jobs.” That growth will come from “regaining our love for competition.”
