The goal of the program is to assist recent veterans with their transition back into civilian life. To do this, the program provides veterans with temporary employment, training them to process at-risk archaeological collections belonging to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The collections are catalogued, photographed and scanned. But the main point is not to turn veterans into archaeologists. It is to provide them with general office skills, (such as report writing in Word, and data entry in Excel and Access), as well as with more technical computer and equipment skills, (such as scanning documents, and photographing artefacts). All of these skills translate to the civilian job market. Most of these collections were excavated during the construction of reservoirs and other associated water control projects from 1947 to 1985. The VCP provides vocational training and temporary employment to disabled veterans, while simultaneously providing the Corps with a viable means of rehabilitating a portion of its archaeological collections to meet federal standards.