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that every day.� Eventually, everything from the artifacts Rivera is sorting through to the documents Bradford will be reviewing, will be photographed and put into an online database run by Arizona State University, something that will revolutionize the way such things are studied. Instead of getting permission to see one or two individual artifacts, everything will be viewable online. Which is where the veterans come in. Without their labor, most of the backlog of collections would never get processed because professors are seldom interested in investing time and money in digs that aren’t their own. “Since no one knows what’s in these boxes, no one can be sure it’s going to help them out,� Rivera says. “They might find something, but they’re not going to be sure enough to want to go back through all the collections themselves.� Picking things up on the fly, the vets learn a broad range of transferable office skills. “We’re not requiring people to become experts,� Rivera says. “For artifacts, it’s mostly sorting between very basic things, like figuring out if this is prehistoric pottery or historic pottery.� The fact that they’re not using a highly specialized database further enables the veterans to broaden their job skills while making the research available to the widest possible audience. The program, which will employ approximately six veterans, is designed to last about six months before the next group comes in. “It’ll take them two months to get good at artifacts and two months to get good at archives,� Bradford says. “Then, between the photography and the scanning and the job building, that will kind of round it out.� The end result will bring job training to the vets and help whittle away the corps’ collection of artifacts. “It’s a really great opportunity,� Rivera says. “You don’t have to have any experience in archeology and you don’t have to have any experience in history — we’ll train you on what you need to know for this, and at the end of six months, we’ll go out of our way to help make sure you’ve got a good resume and start setting you up for interviews.� Though neither have Bradford nor Rivera has a background in job training, the benefits are obvious and rewarding. “I came out here for an open house, and that was my first introduction to the program,� Bradford says. “I looked at the outside of the office and thought, ‘This is the VCP?’ But then I walked inside and started talking to veterans and hearing how fulfilling they found it, I thought, ‘Man — this is an incredible little storefront.’� 18APRIL2013
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