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That served on active duty, but it also helps the city by moving people along. I served active duty for three years. That would move me out of the system. And id like to move along and retire so that i can devote more time to helping veterans because i can see where theres a lot of need and a lot of areas where veterans can be helped, particularly in the areas of employment. When i was at the Community Center, i put a lot of people to work in construction and i privately made veterans a priority when i was putting them in the Construction Apprenticeship programs because i remembered myself bei...

Commissioner cohen. I live in your district, live right up there on the hill in bayview hunters point. I am a former leather neck myself, and i have two issues that id like to raise. The first one is i think that San Francisco, the entire United States can do more for veterans. And one good example i saw of that was walmart saying that they would hire any veterans that come out of the service now and thats the best thing ive heard in the 33 years that ive been out of the marine corps. But id like to see employment programs, particularly those that are funded by the city to do more in terms of ...

Meeting. Supervisor yee is new in this chairmanship so were still working out the kinks over here. Can you tell us a little slack here. See, mr. Gibbs, how are you . Im good. Good, thank you for your service as well. Can you tell me how long you served on the commission . Prior . Probably 15 years. You served on the veteran Affairs Commission. What capacity were you serving . As president for two years, otherwise i was commissioner. Umhm. And what were the circumstances that lead you to leave the commission . You said i moved to europe. Okay. Yeah. And you came back and youre looking to volunt...

I have. And thats what i would do privately with veterans. It wasnt written into our contract with the Redevelopment Agency to do that, but thats just something that i took upon myself to do because ive walked in the shoes of a homeless veteran and an unemployed veteran before. So, going back to the second issue here, i have three years of active duty and San Francisco retirement board will not pick you up unless you join from San Francisco or you are waiting on an city employment list. Those are the two conditions. So, id like again, here, im not going to repeat myself, i would like to see th...