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My son was commissioned as a second lieutenant yesterday:

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Discussion

  • Graduated from HS in 2001 and left for USMC boot camp 1 week later
  • On 9/11 was in combat training at Camp Pendleton. Was injured that day and medic told him about 9/11
  • Serve in Iraq in 2003
  • Discharged in ‘07 as a Sgt
  • Got an associates degree from Normandale CC while working for Wells Fargo
  • ‘08 joined MN National Guard
  • Graduated from U of Minnesota ‘12 w degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Engineer with Seagate
  • Served as a combat engineer for 1 year in Afghanistan (his group detected and exploded IEDs)
  • On MLK day in fight with Taliban, one in unit KIA, 5 injured
  • Now a staff Sgt
  • Started OCS 15 months ago.
  • Graduated this weekend
  • Signed up for 10 more years

Praise the Lord for his blessing in your son’s career and family! What an accomplishment! As a non-math person, I highly respect anyone that can suffer through the necessary math to earn an engineering degree.

I rejoice with you for what God has done in your son’s life. There’s great respect for those who take the enlisted man to officer track.

"Some things are of that nature as to make one's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache." John Bunyan