Re "Starting From Scratch," by Thomas L. Friedman (column, Aug. 27): The most critical needs in Iraq now are civil affairs, military police and engineering outfits.
Unlike their counterparts in more conservative Gulf neighbour states, Emirati women are employed in a range of sectors from the military and police, to engineering, media, fashion and management, although they still make up a tiny percentage of an expat-dominated workforce.
The victim of the shooting on Wednesday was previously identified by police as engineering professor William Klug.
When the shooter stopped to reload, according to police reports, an engineering student named Jon Meis sprayed him with pepper spray, incapacitating him, before grabbing him in a chokehold.
For the first time a door had been opened on previously male-only professions such as the railways, engineering, police and fire brigade.
Graduating PGCC students go on to pursue a variety of occupations, including wildlife science (Endangered Species Act), toxicology, medical insurance fraud, forensic nursing, juvenile delinquency, police crime laboratory, engineering, law, FEMA, ATF, FBI, DEA, fire departments, forensic education, physical anthropology, forensic herpetology, and forensic accounting.
By the late 1870s the town had gained, in additional to houses, a police station, gaol, engineering works, one steam mill run by the Noake Family and another at nearby Quamby.
It is a member of the Association of British Credit Unions Limited, open to those employed in, or associated with, the airline and transport industry, logistics, engineering, police, fire and ambulance services or the armed forces.
The Afghan National Army has opened schools in intelligence, engineering, law, military police, logistics, religious and cultural affairs and finance to provide support services critical to transitioning security responsibilities.
Coventry University is to set up a campus in Dagenham Civic Centre next year and offer courses in accountancy, engineering, policing, It and more.
