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08-27-2009, 03:35 PM
Vietnam vet re-enlists, deploys with wife
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Aug 27, 2009 9:51:16 EDT
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Vietnam veteran Jim Jones didn’t feel comfortable sitting at home while his wife deployed to Afghanistan.
So Jones decided to come out of retirement from the Illinois Army National Guard and join her. He made the decision to join his wife, Julie, as she was training in Indiana last year.
Both are assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters’ Company, 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, based in Urbana. He’s an operations sergeant major and she’s the company’s first sergeant.
Julie Jones says it’s great to serve together in Afghanistan. But it was hard to leave behind their one child, a student at Monmouth College in Monmouth.
The couple met in the National Guard and married in 1994. They’re due back in Illinois by late summer.
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Aug 27, 2009 9:51:16 EDT
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Vietnam veteran Jim Jones didn’t feel comfortable sitting at home while his wife deployed to Afghanistan.
So Jones decided to come out of retirement from the Illinois Army National Guard and join her. He made the decision to join his wife, Julie, as she was training in Indiana last year.
Both are assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters’ Company, 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, based in Urbana. He’s an operations sergeant major and she’s the company’s first sergeant.
Julie Jones says it’s great to serve together in Afghanistan. But it was hard to leave behind their one child, a student at Monmouth College in Monmouth.
The couple met in the National Guard and married in 1994. They’re due back in Illinois by late summer.