Veteran Chris Delplato wanted to be a firefighter for a long time.
“Ever since I was a little kid ”” [toy] truck and everything,” Delplato says. But he only just got his dream job, after first joining the Navy and cruising around the Persian Gulf.
He was hired by New Jersey’s North Hudson Fire Department, which brought on 43 veterans this year.
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