Littleknown aspects on the lives and leadership of Union General ulysses s. Grant and then on real america a 1965 Progress Report on nasas projects including the manned Space Program and the mariner 4 flyby of mars and just before 9 00 writer and awardwinning documentary filmmaker rick burns on how the public learns about history through film and tell vision. American history tv, all weekend, and on holidays, too, only on cspan3. We have more now from the recent u. S. Chamber of comerlss daylong summit called Mission Transition creating Employment Opportunities for post9 11 veterans and military families. Up next companies such as Jpmorgan Chase, uber, usaa and others took part in a series of discussions on the Job Opportunities available and how to help veterans transition to civilian life. This is about an hour 40 minutes. My name is susanne clark. Im executive Vice President of the u. S. Chamber of commerce, and let me be the officially the 12th person to welcome you all here to this great building today. One of the great privileges i have at the chamber is to help lead its foundation where we spend a lot of time thinking about america, about its competitiveness and about our future. We all know that america is a special place. I came across a quote recently that sums it up perfectly. America is the greatest, freest and most Decent Society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and help me. Barbari barbarism. This country once an experiment unique in the world is now the last best hope for the world. We know this. Our military men and women know this. You served for it, sacrificed for it. We all know that america is a special place. And for that to continue, a strong country needs a strong economy. It needs a strong business community. It needs a strong, skilled, able workforce. So, my message to the military community is this your opportunity to serve your nation doesnt end when you hang up your uniform. It doesnt have to stop when you retire or transition into civilian life. You can continue to serve your country in new, vital, and valuable ways. America needs you. Our economy needs you. Our businesses need you. Theres been a lot of talk about hiring our heroes and hiring our Heroes Program to help veterans and Military Spouses participate in the workforce. But i would say thats just the start. Its really about empowering them to lead in the workforce. To propel innovation. To drive our economy and to create opportunities for so many other people. Many of the industries that we saw highlighted in this video represent the future. This is where were headed. And we believe and hope and pray that our military men and women are going to help lead the way. So, lets match up this great generation of talent with the next great generation of american business. If we do, if we harness our industrial might and unleash our human talent, theres no question that america will remain the greatest country on the earth. The nation with the most resilient economy, the most innovative businesses, and the greatest opportunity for individual advancement and reward. This is a new opportunity for service for americas heroes and there is no one better suited for the job. Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome general peter pace, eric eversol, ross brown, and sandy ogg. Well, good afternoon, im pete pace. Its my privilege to be part of this today. And to troo these three gentleman whose organizations and as individuals are doing so much for our veteran community. Next to me sandy ogg from the blackstone group. Next to him ross brown from Jpmorgan Chase. And youve met before already today eric eversol who seems to be everywhere doing everything. A new amigo now. We have about 20 minutes so were not going to spend a lot of time on introductions. I would ask each of these gentlemen first to tell us about their organization, what theyve accomplished and the lessons theyve learned along the way. Thank you, general. Well, first of all, id like to say i consider it a real privilege and honor to be he here [ inaudible ] and for us [ inaudible ] set goals to hire 50,000 veterans and i know relative to some of the numbers that people have been accomplishing, you know, we feel like weve still got a lot of work to do. Weve been at it for two years now. Weve hired about 28,000 veterans so far. And we think that the original commitment we set that we will meet and exceed. And for us its been a very practical matter of getting it done, started with leadership, and then as we went to our ceos and we have 80 Different Companies that are led by excellent management teams, and we said, hey, is there something we can to. And they came back to us and said, we think so. And relative to that, so first thing was to ensure that we had leadership from the top. Now, i know that sounds almost like a cliche. But what that has done is it has created its given permission for every one of these organizations to run hard at it. It creates that sense of permission and alignment to go. And then once we secured the leadership at the top, then the second thing that we asked of those leaders was we need a number and we need a champion. And the number was not something we forced. The number was something that we asked them. It needed to come from them, and it represented ambition. Because Something Like this demands, requires ambition in order for it to happen. And that number was representative of that. And then with that number, we needed a champion. And we have a couple of the champions in the room here today. One person who without his leadership and guidance as our champion at blackstone, michael mcdermott, who is right here in the front. And i know that theres that we have Derrick Blake is here from la quinta. We have rod moses and melissa and lorna here from mihilton. These are the people who are really making this happen day in and day out and have and so a number and a champion. And then once we had a number and a champion, we knew we needed to mobilize. And our kind of theme of mobilizing Something Like this is to think big. So we wanted to have a big, bold number, but to start small. And not try to overwhelm the thing. Start small, meaning lets do some things, meaningful things, that can build momentum, and then move fast. And so with that mantra, you know, weve been able to get this initiative mobilized. And, you know, i would say, the second thing that besides leadership and ambition that has been extremely important for us is the partnership that has developed with the government. People told us in the beginning that, oh, you know, if you try to partner up with the government people, theyre going to slow you down. Well, thats been exactly the opposite of our experience. And i know kurt coy is here from veterans affairs. But the people from that, you know, that have helped us from labor, that have helped us from dod, that have helped us from veterans affairs. We got together the first time. We run a summit once a year. We got together and we said that there was this all this talk about having a warm handoff, that our Service Members need is a warm handoff and we all said, warm handoff, bull. What we need to do is build a bridge. And what the people that were in that room have done is to build a bridge, and there have been very practical things that have been delivered by kurt and the team at the va, by terry gurten and the team at the department of labor, by Stephanie Barna and the team at dod to help us to build this bridge. And essentially i thought Public Private partnership was a cliche, but its real, and its really working, and its helping to accelerate the way that were getting this done. So, a big thank you to all of those people, and even bigger thank you to the champions that are here that are representative of the group thats making this happen. So, thank you all for having me. Sandy, thank you very much to you and to blackstone and to all your portfolio companies. Ross brown, Jpmorgan Chase. Thank you, sir. Its a real privilege to be here today to represent jamie dimon and the rest of the leaders of Jpmorgan Chase and the commitment that the firm has for veteran. There are three pillars that comprise the veterans efforts at jpmorgan. They are employment, education and training and housing. And employment alone this year weve hired over 900 veterans at Jpmorgan Chase alone. Probably what were most proud of is being the leader of the 100,000 jobs mission, and the 100,000 jobs mission consisting over 200 fortune 500 companies has hired 242,000 veterans since 2011, so were extremely proud of that. To be a part of that. The second pillar for our firm is education and training. And under this pillar we partner with the ivmf and the great work that mike haney does at Syracuse University and we kind of focus our program on two things. One is weve committed a Million Dollars recently for a study of seven different universities and colleges to see what can be done to help facilitate the success of veterans as they pursue their education and i think theres going to be some great Lessons Learned from this that we can then provide back to the va and to other organizations. The other are the programs that mike haney kind of alluded to initially and i will follow up. The vctp, the Veterans Transition Program that we help sponsor that allows Service Members and their spouses to be certified on different different certifications that will afford them opportunities to be employed. I. T. Is one of them, another is program management. So, well continue to and look forward to continuing to work with the ivmf and education and training. Finally in housing. Jpmorgan chase alone has provided over 900 homes to deserving Service Members throughout the country. While well continue to provide these homes as they are available, were also looking at partnerships with our Public Partners to help the va and others fight veteran homele homelessness as well as continuing to look for opportunities to provide veterans the opportunity to own homes. So, in sum, id also like to thank our Public Partners and the support were receiving from them and look forward to working more with them as we move forward. Thank you very much, sir. Ross, thank you very much. Eric . Thank you. Eric, chamber and hiring our heroes. Thank you, general. We started our hiring our Heroes Program a little over three years ago. Actually its been four now. It was a Pretty Simple mission. We really wanted to utilize our vast network of state and local chambers to connect them with businesses of all sizes across the country. And we were going to primarily do that through hiring events and i think most people in the building thought wed do a couple hundred. Weve now done over 9 00 in the last 4 years but i think thats just one aspect, the hiring events, that we do. A lot of what weve done a lot of what weve been guided by has been our hiring 500,000 Heroes Campaign that i know you all have heard a little bit about today. We partnered with capital one on that. Thats really about to first and foremost make that commitment to hire veterans because it starts from the top down. But give them the tools and resources to actually help source and retain that great talent in the workforce. So weve really had the great privilege of working in communities large and small with businesses large and small all with the single focus of helping veterans and their families make that transition into the civilian sector and not just find them jobs, but find them the right jobs. While you have the microphone, if you dont mind, what are the gaps that remain and what are the next steps . We heard a little more about this today, but one of the biggest gaps, they need to learn how to sell or market their skill sets to american businesses. They certainly have them, but often times theres no course in the military, but theres really this need to help Service Members understand these value skill sets that translate in a meaningful and impactful way for businesses. Thats one aspect of it. But i also would encourage the Industry Leaders and Business Leaders not to sell their industries. These young men and women as we have all heard are tremendously talented, but they are looking for real Economic Opportunity in this country. Its the businesss responsibility to sell those opportunities to those young businesses. Let them understand that when they come to work for your business that they are continuing their service. They may wear a slightly different uniform, but they are still serving this great country. Those are the gaps i would focus on. Thank you. The one gap that ill talk to is data. Being in the Financial Services industry, numbers mean something, as you might imagine. While we all in this room know that hiring veterans is not only the right thing to do, but its a beneficial thing to do, theres an opportunity to provide more data in support of this case. Were going to pursue a study here soon wherein well look at the retention and performance of veterans within our coalition and specifically within Jpmorgan Chase. Because while i think we all know that its absolutely beneficial, we want to demonstrate that to the organization at large by providing this data and these numbers to support that. So i think we need to provide more information on the business for hiring a veteran. Even though those of us who are veterans know that. Across our coalition theres an opportunity to do that. I see two issues. One is accelerating hiring. Were off to a great start with a couple years behind us. But with the help of miguel and the help of eric, were getting the best practices. What are the things that can be done to help us move faster. So accelerating the hiring would be number one for us. Then number two, because we now have 28,000 veterans working in our companies, what are we going to do to retain them and keep them excited and to help them develop a career . Because we didnt take this on to hire people. We have a number of businesses where we have people come and go a lot. For example, we have people who take inventory in the middle of the night at walmart. Those people come and go. Fortunately, the veterans stick around. And they stick around at a higher rate than others, but you have to capture them in the right way. And so with our summit this fall, were going to balance our efforts. In the beginning we said we were going to hire people. We got busy doing that. And now we need to accelerate that, but with the population that we have, we have to dig in on this second issue, which is how are we going to transition it from a job into something that is a really meaningful career. Because if rod and the team at hilton bring someone in and they get them trained up and they are doing a great job running the front desk or running a whole hilton hotel, we want them to stick around and find ways that we can continue to help these people. Those would be the two things, general, that were really focused on now. Weve got some Interesting Data to potentially we will share with you in terms of the business case. Because we see each one of these veterans represent a very substantial business case. Not only the skills that they bring, the benefits that bring real, tangible things with them. We have the evidence now to say that not only is the right thing to do, but its smart, its smart business. Senator, thanks. You mentioned it and its absolutely true. Theres a huge difference between providing jobs and careers and to the extent that we can help folks get on to a career path. We have enough time left for one more question. Id ask each of you to go down the line. If you have a transitioning member in front of you, you have 60 seconds to give a speech about what they should be doing, what would you tell him or her that you think would benefit them in transition . The thing we did at our summit this past fall, which sort of blew everybody away sitting in the room are its not literally this way but on one side of the room that have done great work in helping us to build this bridge. The other side of the room, you have a bunch of people who are representing these businesses. They are really putting people to work. In front of the room we had five veterans we had hired collectively that we had hired. And you went down the row of the five veterans and people jump out of their chairs saying i have to get me some of that. These people were amazing to a person. One person was driving a humvee in iraq and another person was a Fighter Pilot from the navy. And is now an assistant general manager for us in one of the hotels. The thing if i were in front of a veteran would be to this notion of translation of what it is that you actually bring to the party i think that sometimes theres a little bit of shyness about what is it that im actually bringing that can be beneficial to this business. And i think its important to do a little bit of homework to understand a little bit deeper into that enterprise. What is it that i bring to the party that is going to help to to translate the why would you hire a sniper. I thought that was a pretty cool thing. Theres lots of reasons why you would hire the sniper. But that its like we need to find each other. The business has the need and the veteran really has the skills and we dont want to see it get lost in translation. What i would encourage them to do is harness the energy of their network. They had a network when they were in the military. Those that have gone before them in tra