(2014)
SetVets, based in southern California, has been formed to introduce veterans to career opportunities in the commercial film production industry. Both the vets and the industry stand to gain tremendous benefits from this alliance.
Troops returning from deployment represent a broad cross-section of America—every ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and political affiliation—and they form a labor force that is well-trained, highly skilled, and to a great extent, untapped. While the U.S. jobless rate is roughly 7 percent, among these returning veterans there is over a 10 percent unemployment rate. Returning vets can face many challenges—unemployment should not be one of them.