After re-reading your post and taking a little more note of what you said about the young man’s other interests and values, I’d strongly suggest you advise him to take a careful look at the Eglin Air Force Base opportunities, and Niceville, Florida, specifically.
The Eglin area is in the ‘Bible Belt,’ and it’s a very family-oriented area. If you PM me I might be able to offer more help “off-line.”
Check into:
- Ball Aerospace
- Jacobs Technology
- SAIC
- Lockheed Martin
- BAE
- Northrup Grumman
- TKC Aerospace
Don’t look at the Eglin area. It’s nice, lovely country, but there aren’t jobs here. The company my husband worked for laid off several hundred people back in April, we’re trying hard to get something somewhere else. If there are any jobs here, there’s plenty of local unemployed engineers trying to get in.