 county called Jackson County, Alabama. What branch was he in? He was in the Army as well. He was an infantryman just like me. When did you join the service? 2000 is when I was commissioned out of West Point. Of course, I was there four years prior to start at the Academy. Because you wanted to follow in your father's footsteps? I think I knew probably around the age of five or six. I went to a training exercise and the families were able to sit in the bleachers and kind of observe an operation