Iraq????
I’ve been following this event all day. I’ve read about his life in Alaska and his brief tour with the National Guard.
But this is the first time I’ve seen him being in Iraq.
As is usual with event unfolding immediately after a disaster - most reports are crap.
How was this fool in Iraq back in 2011?
Answering my own ??? by going to the article....
Santiago-Ruiz grew up in the southern coastal town of Penuelas in Puerto Rico, said his brother, Bryan Santiago. He joined Puerto Rico’s National Guard.
He was deployed to Iraq in 2010 and spent a year there with the 130th Engineer Battalion, the 1013th engineer company out of Aguadilla, according to Puerto Rico National Guard spokesman Maj. Paul Dahlen.
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A spokeswoman for the Alaska Army National Guard said Santiago-Ruiz joined the Guard there in November 2014, but general discharge from the Alaska Army National Guard last year for unsatisfactory performance. Lt. Col. Candis Olmstead did not release details about the discharge, which was in August 2016.
I was wondering where he got his combat engineer training.