• Branch of Service: Army National Guard
    • Highest Rank: SPC (Specialist)
    • Locations(s) of Service: Fort Jackson (Basic Training) and Fort Gordon (Advanced Individual Training), 198th ESB-E Georgetown, DE. Still serving for another 4 years.
    • What is your job at Mountaire Farms? IT Helpdesk
    • When were you hired at Mountaire? June 2023
    • What motivated you to join the military? To improve myself and serve my country.
    • Why did you choose the branch of service you joined?: Recruiter was very honest with me.
    • What was the most valuable lesson you learned? You don’t have to always hit the brakes, sometimes it’s better to ease up on the gas.
    • What was the best and worst “military food” you were served? The breakfast after the Forge (Best). Vegetable Crumble MRE (Worst).
    • Tell us about a funny, poignant, or moving story you experienced during your service: During basic training, someone got caught with stealing a Nature Valley from the mess hall and the Drill Sergeant witnessed this and did not bring it up until we were back at the barracks. We all got punished with exercise while we had to watch the person who stole the food eat it in front of us. Fond memories were had that day.
    • Tell us an interesting fact about yourself: Other than it being most of my job, I do like working on computers in spare time as well. I build computers and fix them constantly. I built my own and maintain it, I use it for gaming and some graphic design. I have an innate fondness of technology and media.