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Name: Christopher Palumbo

Age: 22

Hometown: Utica, New York / Everywhere, USA

Military Rank/Unit: 1st Lieutenant, 432nd Civil Affairs Battalion, U.S. Army Reserve, Green Bay, Wis.

CHRISTOPHER PALUMBO

by Clayton Ransom

The Army Brat

Christopher Palumbo has only known the military life. He is the son of a career military officer and a stay-at-home mom, who at one point was enlisted herself. Palumbo went to Valley Forge Military Junior College in Wayne, Pennsylvania where he participated in the U.S. Army ROTC Early Commissioning Program, a two-year accelerated program and commissioned as a sophomore. He is currently enrolled in the ROTC program at Oshkosh and is ready to pursue his career in the military.

My parents joined the military, I don’t want to speak for them, but from what I’ve been told from my parents, is that they did it for the adventure, they did it for the money and they did it for serving their country. They saw it as a patriotic duty to put on the uniform of an American soldier and to serve and protect the rights of American citizens…

The rest of the story can be found in the book War: Through Their Eyes, which is sold at the University Books & More.

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