Agricultural Advisor from Missouri
My blogs
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| Introduction | Why volunteer to leave loved ones and risk keeping a good job to work in a hazardous zone? Personal reasons involving loyalty, responsibility and integrity I needed to go back to Iraq to accomplish more than what could be done during one tour of military duty. Loyalty to a friend to make that contribution that he would have made but was no longer able to. Responsibility because when I could see the need to rebuild the agriculture infrastructure was being attempted by smart, confident and well meaning military with little concept of what worked or didn’t as a professional agriculturist there was a responsibility to stand up and point out what would work. Integrity but involves repaying of a debt. On September 11, 2001 I was training on an east coast military installation. My classmates had offices destroyed in the Pentagon; I saw the fear in others with family in jeopardy, observed the post security tighten by the hour and finally the assembly and departure of the Mortuary Affairs Companies to New York and the Pentagon. Trained thirty years to serve as a soldier now the nation was in need. Applied the thirty years experience as an agriculturist; this now has led me to Africa |