MEDIA ADVISORY: INGALLS SHIPBUILDING APPRENTICE GRADUATION

MEDIA ADVISORY, June 26, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) —

What:		Ingalls Shipbuilding Apprentice School graduation and media day

When:		10:30 a.m. Friday, June 28 (Media Day)
		2 p.m. Saturday, June 29 (Graduation Day)

Where:		Biloxi Convention Center, Biloxi, Miss.

Who:		(Media Day)
		· Jeffrey Mowery, Outstanding Apprentice of the Year
		· Other outstanding craft apprentices
		· John Lotshaw, Director, Ingalls Shipbuilding Operations Workforce Training And Development
		(Graduation Day)
		· Delbert Hosemann, Mississippi Secretary of State
		· Irwin F. Edenzon, Ingalls Shipbuilding President
		· Jeffrey Mowery, Outstanding Apprentice of the Year
		· John Lotshaw, Director, Ingalls Shipbuilding Operations Workforce Training And Development

RSVP:		Bill Glenn, Huntington Ingalls Industries, (228) 327-1671
		[email protected]

This weekend, Ingalls Shipbuilding’s Apprentice School will host graduation ceremonies for the 2013 class of Apprentices. Delbert Hosemann, Mississippi Secretary of State, will be the keynote speaker on Saturday and will be available for media interviews following graduation, along with Ingalls Shipbuilding President Irwin F. Edenzon.

Media are also invited to attend rehearsal on Friday for interviews with the outstanding apprentices as well as Ingalls’ Director of Workforce, Training and Development John Lotshaw.

For more information on Ingalls Apprentice Program, visit the school’s website at: www.apprenticeschool.com/gc.

About Huntington Ingalls

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) designs, builds and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and provides after-market services for military ships around the globe. For more than a century, HII has built more ships in more ship classes than any other U.S. naval shipbuilder at its Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding divisions. Employing about 37,000 in Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and California, HII also provides a wide variety of products and services to the commercial energy industry and other government customers. For more information, visit: