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A quarter of the aerospace work force will be eligible to retire this year, and industry and labor leaders say that government, public schools and colleges aren't moving fast enough to produce the next generation of aerospace workers. Here, machinist T.D. Nguyen works on top of the main fuselage of an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft at the Lockheed-Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
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Don Windsoir, 63, of Swansea, Illinois, loves his job at Boeing. Directly behind him is a scale-model of the F-15, which he helps make at Boeing.
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Atlee Cunningham Jr., a senior Lockheed Martin fellow, has worked as an engineer with the company for over 42 years.
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Herman Koester holds a photograph taken in either 1968 or 1969 that shows a Boeing Phantom F-4 fighter jet with a group of Japanese military officials and dignitaries at the then-McDonnell Douglas firm in St. Louis, Missouri. Koester is in the back row of the photograph at right.
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Electrician Jimmy Parker, installs cables into the cockpit of an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft at the Lockheed-Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
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William Lam, left, and Nguyen Thanh Vo practice metal techniques at the TCC training facility for skills needed to work somewhere like Lockheed Martin. The workforce development is part of the college's continuing education programs.
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Students practice machining techniques at the Tarrant Community College training facility in east Fort Worth, Texas.
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Janice Fundora, left, and Rick Osby practice drilling techniques at the TCC training facility.
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