Like many veterans, Quinn Young found the transition back to civilian life difficult, particularly when it came to finding a career. Then he heard about an opportunity in the solar industry. joshrobin has more on the Spectrum News app.
Battlefields to solar fields: How veterans are finding careers in renewable energyUPDATED 4:44 PM ET Apr. 15, 2022Quinn Young, a 23-year-old Army veteran, stepped out to a podium planted amid the scrub grass. It was early fall in northeast Texas, and he and hundreds of others had just about completed a solar farm the size of 1,500 football fields.
On its face, the event was a tribute to those who once wore fatigues and now were key to the tough labor behind building the electrical farm that would generate enough energy to power more than 26,000 homes.But something else was at play that morning—two things, actually. One was personal; a young veteran finding his footing after years of anguish; the other, far bigger—a state long associated with oil was showing the new way it would generate power.
But in 2019, after about three years in the military and an honorable discharge, the familiar ghosts returned – “one of the lowest moments of my life,” he calls it now.Amid a string of dead ends, injuries to the body and a mind often reeling, he stumbled across an internet post: a construction company hiring veterans, offering free training.
“If you've been an artilleryman, infantryman or any other occupation in the military, employers understand that this is going to be an easy transition and they know what it's going to be like,” Morgan says.
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