{"id":71787,"date":"2017-04-30T12:03:13","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71787"},"modified":"2017-04-30T12:03:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T16:03:13","slug":"battlefield-promotion-for-sgt-penderman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71787","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield promotion for SGT Penderman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Stars & Stripes<\/a> reports that Jeremy Penderman, a multichannel transmission systems operator\/maintainer, while serving in Iraq with Fort Bragg\u2019s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division as the brigade’s S6 communications shop leader, has received a battlefield promotion to Staff Sergeant. He’s occupying an officer’s duty position as a sergeant.<\/p>\n

Today, Penderman might have been a Marine if it wasn\u2019t for one more discovery.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found out about the airborne,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Over spring break his freshman year \u2013 March 2010 \u2013 Penderman walked into a recruiting center and enlisted in the Army.<\/p>\n

At first, he wanted to be an airborne infantryman, but a recruiter instead guided him through a list of available jobs.<\/p>\n

He described Penderman\u2019s current military occupational specialty, known as a 25Q, as \u201chalf infantry, half radios\u201d and promised he could still become a paratrooper. Also, the job came with an enlistment bonus.<\/p>\n

Since enlisting, Penderman spent more than four years in Germany with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team before joining the 82nd Airborne Division about two years ago.<\/p>\n

He has seven years in the Army and plans to apply to become a warrant officer in the Signal Corps. While he wants to stay in the Army as long as possible, he said the skills he\u2019s learned have opened the door to a bright future no matter if he wears the uniform or not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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