For those that don't actively follow my Facebook status, I commissioned as an officer in the United States Army four years ago Monday. Yes, somehow it has already been four years. I know I haven't been around much since then, but I want to take this opportunity to thank everybody for their outstanding support. Whether I is was in OBC, Iraq, actually at Ft. Campbell, or Afghanistan, I've gotten nothing but love, support, and amazing care packages. All of this even though I've missed countless birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, two Christmases (is that how you pluralize Christmas?), and pretty much every other major event in the lives of my families and friends.
So, in lieu of a video montage of the last four years, here are some pictures of my commissioning and two promotions. Here's to at least two more promotions after this! (That would make me a Lieutenant Colonel and a pretty big deal...)
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| Aug 15, 2007 - Commissioning day. Yeah you better buff those finger prints off of my brand new gold 2LT bars!!! |
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| April 2, 2009 - Promotion to 1LT. CPT Param, the guy I replace as platoon leader is pinning my new rank on my patrol cap even though I had already sewn on my rank. Oh by the way, if you jam a patrol cap with pin rank down on somebody's head, it hurts pretty bad. |
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| April 3, 2011 - LTC Rickleff, my battlaion commander, promoting me from 1LT to CPT. I got promoted later than I should have because of where my 1LT date of rank fell in the promotion cycle but, as always, better late than never |
That's all I got. We have a pretty awesome mission coming up in the next week. Hopefully combat camera will go along and release some picture for me to steal and put on the blog.
Later.
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