America's North Shore Journal

Kirkuk Province recently celebrated the commencement of three new Civil Service Corps. On Sept. 14, Hawijah celebrated the start of a new CSC and the next day, two started in Dibis. “The CSCs are intended to provide the necessary training, education and skill that will allow the graduates to seek and attain good paying jobs and to begin the hard task of rebuilding Iraq village by village, city by city,” said Lt. Col. Kevin Hudie, commander, 3rd Battalion, 6th Artillery regiment, 10th Mountain Div, at the Dibis commencement ceremony. The CSC program is patterned after a U.S. depression-era job program known as the Civilian Conservation Corps designed to put young men back to work. What makes the program unique is that all of the apprentices are former Sons of Iraq … Read entire article »