Rose Parade floats highlights military veterans in cybersecurity

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00:00The Rose Parade is an annual tradition that precedes the Rose Bowl game and features lavishly

00:05decorated floats going up against each other in a parade on the streets of Pasadena on

00:11New Year's Day.

00:12This year's just concluded parade featured a float depicting military veterans being

00:17afforded second careers in computer coding and cyber security.

00:22VOA's Ginia Dulot reports.

00:27This 136th annual Tournament of Roses Parade has nearly 40 moving platforms decorated with

00:35fresh flowers, including the float Coding for Veterans, highlighting training for retired

00:42military service members in software engineering and cyber security.

00:47Terry Rivera served six years in the U.S. Navy before joining the New York Fire Department.

00:56He says damage to his lungs from responding to the 2001 terrorist attack on the World

01:03Trade Center forced him into disability retirement.

01:07After working in emergency management and disaster relief, Rivera joined the Coding

01:13for Veterans program last year.

01:16I strongly believe that the next, and it's been depicted in a lot of movies, but the

01:19next 9-11 scale bigger will probably be a cyber attack.

01:24So that's what's got me interested, hopefully I can help prevent that from happening.

01:28Coding for Veterans originated in Canada and is run here in Los Angeles through the University

01:34of Southern California.

01:36Executive Director Jeff Musson says they have high job placement rates and more than 800

01:44veterans currently enrolled.

01:46You go from serving on the battlefield to now serving in cyberspace.

01:49And when you look at the soft skills of people in the military, attention to detail, leadership,

01:55teamwork, those are the skills that employers are really looking for.

02:00The online program is self-paced, can be completed in 6-12 months, and includes career coaching,

02:08says Terry Wolf of the USC's Marshall School of Business.

02:13How to put together your resume, how to do a job search, how to get effective coaching

02:18in terms of helping you to track in terms of your career interests and career development,

02:23how to develop a LinkedIn profile.

02:25Some very basic tools that if you're coming out of the military for 20 years you would

02:29never know, you would never have had the need for any of that.

02:32Alejandra Rodriguez volunteered to help decorate the float because of her family's military

02:38background.

02:39I saw the difficulty transitioning, they did have PTSD, they did struggle, they saw a lot.

02:47My sister did two tours, and I'm going to cry, and she came back different.

02:55And it was very difficult as a family, I think, to see her struggle.

03:00And at the time, the VA didn't have a lot of money to support them, and so as a family

03:05we did the best that we could.

03:06The Coding for Veterans float joined others this New Year's Day, expanding the program's

03:14visibility with a parade broadcast to millions.

03:18Janette Dulo, VA News, Los Angeles.

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