11.09.15
Amherst Label, a custom label printer specializing in everything from flexo to digital, offers a special benefits package to customers who have served in the US military. As part of the offer, free “Veteran Owned” business stickers are provided, along with a 20% free overrun on any label or tag order.
Amherst Label owner Nicholas Calvetti, Jr. was drafted into the US Army in 1969 during the Vietnam era. He had just finished his formal education with accounting degrees at Bentley College and the University of Colorado. With both a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree, he was eventually assigned to the finance corps. However, he started out training as a medic, learning how to dispense shots and care for injuries.
In the finance corps, Calvetti achieved the rank of specialist 5th class—the approximate equivalent of a sergeant— and served for two years using his background in inventory and accounting. Private Calvetti was stationed at Fort Richardson Army base, neighbor to Elmendorf Air Force base in Anchorage, AK, a long way from his roots in Milford, NH.
He had no trouble making friends because, according to Calvetti’s recollection, the other soldiers thought “finance meant payroll, so finance people were popular with the troops.” It didn’t matter that he had nothing to do with payroll in his job in inventory in the Px and commissary. Calvetti remembers working in a small office with two civilian office workers. And to add to his army pay, he had an extra job doing custodial work in the command center, keeping trash cans emptied and floors clean.
His two years of Army experience prompted members of the Amherst Label team to apply for certification as a veteran-owned company, a designation Amherst Label earned in 2014. One other member of today’s Amherst Label team is a veteran of the armed forces: Mark Goinsalvos. Goinsalvos was in the Air Force and retired as a sergeant.
“We are proud to be veteran-owned and certified and prouder still to work with other veterans,” says Calvetti.
Amherst Label owner Nicholas Calvetti, Jr. was drafted into the US Army in 1969 during the Vietnam era. He had just finished his formal education with accounting degrees at Bentley College and the University of Colorado. With both a Bachelors degree and a Masters degree, he was eventually assigned to the finance corps. However, he started out training as a medic, learning how to dispense shots and care for injuries.
In the finance corps, Calvetti achieved the rank of specialist 5th class—the approximate equivalent of a sergeant— and served for two years using his background in inventory and accounting. Private Calvetti was stationed at Fort Richardson Army base, neighbor to Elmendorf Air Force base in Anchorage, AK, a long way from his roots in Milford, NH.
He had no trouble making friends because, according to Calvetti’s recollection, the other soldiers thought “finance meant payroll, so finance people were popular with the troops.” It didn’t matter that he had nothing to do with payroll in his job in inventory in the Px and commissary. Calvetti remembers working in a small office with two civilian office workers. And to add to his army pay, he had an extra job doing custodial work in the command center, keeping trash cans emptied and floors clean.
His two years of Army experience prompted members of the Amherst Label team to apply for certification as a veteran-owned company, a designation Amherst Label earned in 2014. One other member of today’s Amherst Label team is a veteran of the armed forces: Mark Goinsalvos. Goinsalvos was in the Air Force and retired as a sergeant.
“We are proud to be veteran-owned and certified and prouder still to work with other veterans,” says Calvetti.