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Jose Hernandez
14653 SE Wanda Dr.
Milwaukie, OR 97267 
503-344-4060
josepepejoe@comcast.net

PERSONAL:
Place of Birth - Olmito, Texas.
Marital Status - Single.
  
HISTORY
I retired from the Federal Government in March of 95 ... at which time I ... :
Became active in politics.
Continued Community activism.
Attempted to start a home business operation but wasn't able to establish the necessary clientelle so I closed shop in 2000. 
PROFESSIONAL/WORK EXPERIENCES: 
 
1973-1995:  I was first hired by the Bonneville Power Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, as an Employee Development Specialist. I later served in the position of Supervisor of Staffing and Recruitment and later became a Labor Relations Specialist. In this last position I was a member of a team that dealt with 16 differrent unions known as the Columbia Power Trades Council in collective bargaining, contract administration and employee grievance resolutions.

6/72 to 4/73: assistant Director, Education Center, Portland State University. The education Center, located on North East Martin Luthor King Boulevard, was a “Store-Front” facility where admission standards were waived for certain minority and academically disadvantaged students in need of tutorial and /or financial aid. In this position, I had administrative responsibilities for student enrollment, recruitment of faculty, class scheduling and that of helping students obtain tutorial assistance and financial aid.

10/71 to 6/72: Admissions Counselor, Portland State University. In addition to my regular duties, I was assigned the responsibility of helping minority and disadvantaged students obtain tutorial assistance and financial aid.

Military Service - U.S. Navy:
Joined on Feb., 16, 1956;
I was assigned to CO 144, at the US Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois on or about Feb. 19, 1956 and graduated at the end of April 1956;
My first Sea Duty Assignment was the USS LAKE CHAMPLAIN CVA-39 on which I served from May, 10, 1956 through Sept. (??) 1959 at which time I recieved my discharge and returned home to Olmito, Texas:
I re-enlisted in Dec. 1959 reported to Long Beach Naval Station where I was assigned to the USS McGinty DE-365 which was a Naval Reserve Training Ship stationed in Swan Island, Portland Oregon.  The McGinty was recommisioned in Oct. 1961 and deployed to Vietnam. The crew consisted of 40 regular Navy personnel (the traning crew) and the rest of the crew was composed of Naval Reserves.  We were one of the first 7 ships assigned to help train the South Vietnamese to patrol their coast and seek contraband on ships that entered their coastal waters. We returned to Portland in July 1962.  I continued to train Reserves on the McGinty until mid 1965:
In 1965 I completed 10 years of sea duty and was transfered to Corpus Christi Naval Station where I served as an Assistant Brig Warden: 
Upon completion of my two years of shore duty I volunteered to return to Vietnam and was selected as a Blue Ribbon Crew to reactivate the USS New Jersey BB-62 in Philidelphia, Pennsylvania which was going to deploy to Vietnam.  However, on the 17th of July, while still under travel orders, I was a passenger in a vehicular accident that caused me to be hosptialized and unable to report to my assignment.
I wound up in St. Albans Naval Hospital and later transfered to the Bremerton Naval Hospital in Bremerton, Washington from where I retired on the 1st of March,1968.
 

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