Army Veteran Jeret Howard Joins NASA Stennis Space Center as Civil Servant

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Jeret Howard, a former U.S. Army combat medic who served in Iraq, has been hired as a civil servant at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He was brought on board as part of NASA's workforce directive aimed at restoring core competencies within the agency. Howard had previously worked at Stennis as a contractor before making the transition to a federal civil servant role this past summer. His journey from military service at age 17 to a NASA career reflects the agency's broader effort to build an experienced in-house workforce.

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