Wounded Marines get training for film careers

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Former Gunnery Sgt. Tai Cleveland takes pictures during a photo class at Wounded Marine Career Foundation in San Diego. The Wounded Marine Career Foundation boot camp is a first-of-its-kind 10-week training program designed to help land them jobs in the film industry.


Wounded Marines get training for film careers
By Chelsea J. Carter - The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Jan 19, 2008 16:06:54 EST

SAN DIEGO — Joshua Frey looked through the view finder of his camera in a studio production lot, focusing on a group of helmets atop wooden stakes.

They reminded the former Marine of the memorials to fallen comrades he had seen before he was shot and hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, which left him with partial use of his left arm, traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder that still haunts his nights.

Frey, like many disabled veterans, has struggled to find a career, to rebuild a life.

Now, more than two years after being wounded in Fallujah, Frey has enrolled in the Wounded Marine Career Foundation program, which aims to help wounded and disabled Marines and Navy corpsmen land jobs in the film industry.

The photos in the studio lot were part assignment, part therapy for Frey. Perhaps, he says, his attempt to use a camera is a new beginning, a path to a new career.


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