This cohort has gone on to find jobs in the industry across 37 states in the US. To date, 250 veterans have graduated from the program. In 2014, Hardaway started Vets Who Code, a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching US military veterans how to code within the JavaScript ecosystem: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, CLI, node.js, webpack, React, Gatsby, and GraphQL. And he wants more veterans to follow his lead. They weren’t hiring people like that.” So he learned to code instead.
“My options were go back overseas as a private military contractor or stay stateside and hope they started hiring EST (Engagement Skills Trainer) specialists or SWAT team specialists,” he said. After serving in the United States Air Force, Security Forces, he found himself with a set of skills that didn’t transfer cleanly to the civilian sector. Because of that, their career paths can be limited. But they don’t often get a chance to learn the programming skills that are in high demand in today’s economy. They learn how to work as a team, how to lead, and how to discipline themselves. For many, serving in the US military is both a duty and a path that leads them to something bigger.
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