1. The Federal Board for Vocational Education can arrange for you to take your training in a navy yard or in a shop, under the instructions of a competent employee who knows that occupation. This man will train you on the job.
2. If you want training in such work as drawing or mathematics, you can be placed in a school where these subjects are taught as they apply to the work for which you are taking training.
3. It may be possible for you to put part of your time into shop training and part into school training.
4. If you need more general education, the Federal Board for Vocational Education will arrange for you to get it, either in day or evening schools, or will even provide a special instructor to teach you.
No matter what your handicap or disability may be or what training you lack for the navy-yard occupation that you wish to follow, the Federal Board for Vocational Education will stand behind you and do all that it can to help you to make good. Other men in your situation have made good. You can. Let the Federal Board for Vocational Education help you to be a better man on the job than you were before, or a good man on a better job than you had before.
What Training Can Do for You in Navy-Yard Occupations
If you wish to take up any navy-yard occupation you can, by taking advantage of the opportunities for taking training that are offered by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, decidedly better your chances of getting a job and of getting a better job.
In the first place, if you are handicapped, you can, by taking special training, equip yourself so that you can hold down a great many navy-yard jobs that, without training you could not do at all. A great many jobs like those carried on in the shops and offices of navy yards have been successfully held down by men who had lost a hand, an arm, or a leg, and who had taken special training so that they could overcome their handicap.
Aside from this special training, if you are interested in navy-yard employment, the training that you can secure will enable you to get a better job than you otherwise could. For example, perhaps you followed some trade similar to some navy-yard trade before you entered the service. You did not know all about that trade—there are always some things that a fellow does not know about his trade. For example, you might have worked in a shop where the foreman could read the blue prints and you could not; you can take training in blue-print reading. Perhaps you could not lay off work; you can learn to do it. Perhaps there were some machines that you did not know how to run, or certain jobs that you did not know how to do; you can take training on these machines and on those special jobs. Perhaps you are well up in your trade, and would like to become a quarterman or leading man but need to know certain things about the job; you can take training for that, so that you can get yourself in line for promotion.
If you did not know anything about a trade before you entered the service, but learned something about some trade or occupation while in the service, you can complete your trade training. For example, suppose that you learned something about pipe fitting, or electrical work, or machine-shop work, or sail making, or yeoman’s work while you were in the service; you can complete your training so that you will have the entire trade at your command; and you can not only get the shop training, but you can also get whatever drawing or other technical training a first-class man in that trade needs to know.