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[I am a combustion research engineer at GE.]
[I work on pulse detonation engine technology specifically in my role here.]
[The week after I actually started working here,]
[I got activated to go to Iraq with my military unit]
[because I was in the US Army Reserves at the time.]
[I was gone for almost 16 months, and then I came back again.]
[So the first year and a half of my career I really wasn't at GE,]
[GE was very, very good to me when I was on deployment. I was really surprised.]
[I had worked here for a week, and GE's policy for military people that are on deployment]
[is they'll pay differential pay.]
[So I worked here for one week, and they paid a differential ]
[between my salary that I would have made here and what I was making with the military.]
[And I was just very surprised that for someone that had worked at GE for one week]
[that they were still willing to let that policy apply.]
[I've always kind of wanted to be in the military.]
[It was always kind of fascinating to me.]
[Both my grandfathers were in the military.]
[I always kind of wanted to do it.]
[One of the big things that the military teaches is teamwork.]
[You have to be able to trust and rely on the person you're working with]
[and also people that you aren't working directly with to do their job]
[That whole teamwork atmosphere that the military builds]
[is very helpful not just in GE but in life in general.]
[It's nice to see that the company supports people that are in the military]
[because those people are supporting our country,]
[and without our country, GE couldn't really exist as it is.]
[So I think that anybody that is thinking about joining GE]
[and are worried about, "Hey, I'm in the military."]
["How is GE going to respond to this?"]
[I don't think that they need to worry because GE is very supportive of them.]
[And I think it's great that you can be a part of the military]
[and be part of GE at the same time,]
