Personal Narrative: 2-35 Infantry Regiment

Reveille I died on January 18, 1944 after 13 years as the mascot. She was given a formal military funeral at Kyle Field including a 21 gun salute. She is buried at the entrance to The Zone, with all the Reveilles, where they have a special scoreboard so that they can always keep an eye on how the game is

This was to steer us away from all the negativity and bad habits that my cousins where involved in. At seventeen, with my parent’s permission, I enlisted into the United States Marine Corps. I served fourteen years of active duty service from 2001-2015. During this time, I completed three combat deployments, two to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. My primary occupational skill was an Ammunition Chief.

In this memo, I will introduce myself with my major, some of my background, why I am taking the English 341 course, and what I hope to get out of taking this course. In the Spring of 2012, I was admitted and enrolled in NMT for the study of physics with the astrophysics option. Recently, last semester, I dropped the astrophysics option and am now a general physics major primarily due to funding issues with the GI Bill. Prior to beginning my time at NMT, I served for nine years in the U.S. Army.

Virginia Military Institute opened its doors in 1839 as a public senior military college in Lexington, Virginia. It has a selective admission rate with under 2,000 students. The Latin motto is “In pace decus, in bello prasesidum”. In English, this translates to, “In peace a glorious asset, in war a tower of strength”. This is the oldest institute of its class within the United States and it has kept with all of its founding principles.

5. On 31 August 2011, Retired MAJ JRB, who was formerly a 1LT, infantry platoon leader, 2nd platoon, C Company, 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment, submitted a DA Form 638, recommending the applicant for award of the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement from 6 January 1967 to 8 January 1968. With this recommendation, he submitted his statement together with several other statements from former members; summarized as follows: a. 1LT JRB stated, in the summer of 1966, he wasas a second lieutenant he was assigned to C Company, 4th Battalion, 47th Infantry at Fort Riley when the 9th Infantry Division was reactivated for combat duty in Vietnam. He was assigned to train an infantry platoon and ready his men for the rigors of combat

In 1980, a "coming-of-age" young man, Scott Meehan, enlisted into the U.S. Army Special Forces as a Medic. Known as one of the last "street-babies," he was able to enter the elite program immediately following Basic Training, AIT, and Airborne school. Twenty-five years later, married with two "Army Brats" traveling the world, Meehan was all he could be before retiring as a Major. Discover a soldier 's career through insightful vignettes describing his early special forces training, assignment to Berlin during the Cold War, encounters with the KGB, ROTC training, Desert Storm, and his three tours to Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) where he was awarded the Bronze Star. A thrilling story that reads like a novel of an American hero whose parents were

Jose L. Garcia-Aponte was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico. He is blessed to have two children, US ARMY PFC Caleb Ho’Onuii, a member of the elite 82nd Airborne Division, Velmarye and one amazing grandson, Mr. Alejandro, and a Maximum aka: MAX an English Golder Retriever. After almost 29 years of honorable service to his nation as a US ARMY soldier he retired on 2009 as a Command Sergeant Major at Program Executive Office of Simulation Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) in Orlando, Florida. In June 2005 he was awarded the Soldiers Medal for saving the life of another soldier.

I had already been deployed to Iraq twice before this deployment, once during the initial invasion into Iraq, and the other was during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) 05-07. Throughout those two deployments I experienced a great deal of combat and witnessed a tremendous change to the Rules of Engagements (ROE). 3rd BCT was just reorganized and re-designated 16 April 2007 on Fort Hood, Texas. In preparation for our upcoming deployment to OEF IX, the unit executed several training events; Live Fire Training Exercises, The National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, California and the unit also sent all the Section Sergeants to the Army Mountain Warfare School to receive an 80 hour block of instruction in Basic Military Mountaineering. The training prepared us for the different dynamics of the fight we were about to face, and learned a new ROE for the enemy based off the information that we were receiving from 1-91 CAV the unit that we were going to relive in-place.

The fiction story that I wrote about was titled, “The Rebirth of an American Solider. The basis of this story was about a solider and how he was able to transition from his secondary position with the Army, right into being a well awarded sniper. The idea that I used for this story was two folded, first off at the University of Akron where I attended classes before transferring to Cuyahoga Community College. I was enrolled in a pair of composition classes that were military based.

My promotion to Specialist through Sergeant First Class have all been in the secondary zone, with my promotion to Sergeant First Class being my first appearance at the promotion board. I have received three Army Commendation Medals and three Army Achievement Medals, two of the Army Achievement Medals were impact awards for going above and beyond to accomplish the mission. I have deployed three times, performing detainee operations in Iraq, an Air Defense mission to Qatar, and an Air Defense mission to Turkey. I have served in positions well above my grade and never faltered at the challenge, be it the Executive Officer of a battery as a Staff Sergeant or being the sole responsible NCO for the AIAMD LUT. I have the desire and will to always achieve the best possible results and will not settle for mediocrity.

In the spring of 2013, after being inspired by my brother Sergio, whom had graduated from Aims Community College the same year I asked myself, “What am I doing? Having the help from the Montgomery GI bill, and doing nothing with it? " It was at this point in my life and after being discharged from the Army

On December 18th, 2013, I finally achieved my goal and became an Eagle Scout, the first of my friends to do so. My five year long journey was finally complete. Through my journey to Eagle Scout I learned many useful skills. In moving up the ranks, I learned the importance of proper planning and being prepared for any possible scenario.

I was an Infantry Medic with the 101st Airborne Division out of Fort Cambbell. After 2 tours in Afghanistan, I was medically retired with a few injuries. I taught myself graphic illustration as a means of theraphy and started creating digital art. After a request for a custom stormtrooper cardback, this hobby took off.

One of the reasons I would like to be a wreath layer is because my grandpa was in the Korean War. When he was 21, he went to military training in Blackstone, Virginia. He then left from Seattle on a boat on a two week journey to Japan. All of the guys on the boat would be sick by the time they got to Japan. He then had more training in Japan for about four more weeks.

I am originally from Nacogdoches TX but was raised in Greenbrier AR. After completion of high school I joined the Army on October 19, 2004 as a 21D (Engineer Diver). I attended basic training at Fort Lenardwood, MO. Upon completion or basic training I moved into phase I of advanced individual training at Fort Lenardwood and then to phase II at Panama City, FL. My first duty assignment was with the 86th Dive Detachment in December 2005.