Have you heard How Harmonic is leveraging military veterans' skills?

Have you heard How Harmonic is leveraging military veterans' skills?

V.E.T.S. has hired and contracted out more than 100 veterans since its creation in March 2013, according to Sharp Communications Strategist Jared Baiman. He said the program has over 12 clients throughout the country, including Harmonic, Experian and Freddie Mac.

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The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have put a spotlight on military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

But public concern about the condition isn't new, and the attention PTSD gets can work against veterans returning to the civilian workforce.

Michael Lemon, who served in Operation Desert Storm in 1991, now works at Harmonics as part of a program for helping veterans enter the workforce after leaving the military.

"When you come back from being deployed, you're ... treated differently, because no one knows what to expect," said Michael Lemmon, a Navy corpsman who served with a Marine recon unit in 1991's Operation Desert Storm and retired from the service in 1996. "Everyone doesn't come back with PTSD — you deploy, you do your job, you come back and you're ready to pick up the pieces where you left off."

Today, Lemmon works at San Jose telecommunications company Harmonic Inc. through a veterans employment program called V.E.T.S., which is run by technology consulting firm Sharp Decisions.