Peter Lyerly and Shawn Stanley are hard at work in the WANADA Apprenticeship Training Program as a result of a signed agreement with the Veterans Administration that endorses the program as an approved training site under the Department of Veterans Affairs On-The-Job Training and Apprenticeship Training program.
Itês a great deal for these guys because it allows veterans to receive a monthly stipend for up to two years of post-service training, explains WANADAês Archie Avedisian. And itês a great deal for us because we get students with additional motivation, maturity and training to succeed as skilled techs.
Lyerly, for example, trained as a heavy wheel technician in the Army on tanks and other large vehicles over 5 tons. Putting his Army training to good use, he is already working on-line at Sheehy Ford of Gaithersburg, MD, a strong supporter of the WANADA Apprenticeship Training Program, where he is working on big trucks with a goal of becoming a master tech for diesels.
If he follows in the footsteps of his brother, Andrew Lyerly, chances are good he will. Andrew was one of our best apprenticeship trainees, says Avedisian. He graduated from the program and became a Master Tech at DARCARS of Rockville, MD.
Sean Stanley, who served with the Marines in Kuwait, started in the WANADA program last fall and is in training at Ourisman Rockmont Chevrolet in Rockville, MD, where Service Manager Jerry Lenga reports he is doing fine.
Before you get out of the service they tell you to line up something, and I heard about this program through my wife, who works at Martens Volvo-VW, recounts Stanley. They said it was an excellent program. So I got in touch with Archie eight or nine months before I got out, and here I am. Iêm real pleased with the deal.
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