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William West, CEO and president of Westech eSolutions, is an Air Force Veteran who served in Vietnam. (Cliff Grassmick/Staff Photographer)
“You learn these little nuances about your field in the military, and when you leave you are sometimes left standing with ‘well, how do I use these skills now?’ and wonder if you can use them,” West said. For him, that meant learning how electronics could be used to extract data that might be missing, lost or stolen.
“I took what I learned from the Air Force and revamped it to work to my benefit, and that’s something a lot of veterans have to learn to do,” West explained. The Vietnam veteran said he took his electronics background and repurposed it into computer science to serve civilians instead of the military.
West said the hardest part of his transitioning from military service to civilian life was learning how to live completely on his own, because he joined the Air Force two days after his high school graduation at 17 years old.
“You get so used to being told where to live, and if you’re in military housing, most of that is paid for — so for me it was learning to set up an electric account or water services, and that sometimes was just difficult to navigate after a life of service,” West explained.
West said, “the sooner you figure out what it is you want to do after military life, the better because then you can use what you are doing in the military to prepare yourself for those endeavors, so that you can hit the ground running in civilian life.”
He also said it’s not a bad idea to save money to get housing, because “living at home with your parents when you leave isn’t always an option.”
“Memorial Day is a day to honor our fallen brothers and sisters, but it should also be a day we remember those who may have fallen within themselves and are still lost because so many of my Vietnam counterparts didn’t make it back as whole people,” West explained.
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