FROM VIETNAM TO IRAQ, ILLINOIS SOLDIER RETIRES AFTER LIFE-LONG SERVICE
August 26, 2008
August 26, 2008
GALESBURG, Ill., Aug. 26 -- The National Guard issued the following news release:
By Mike Chrisman
Illinois National Guard Public Affairs Office
A tour in Vietnam, flood duty in 1993 and 2001, a tour in Iraq from 2005 to 2006, and flood duty in 2008. That is only part of the highlight reel for a 58-year-old Oquawka man who is about to hang up his combat boots after a military career that has spanned nearly 40 years.
Staff Sgt. Norris Crooks, of . . .
By Mike Chrisman
Illinois National Guard Public Affairs Office
A tour in Vietnam, flood duty in 1993 and 2001, a tour in Iraq from 2005 to 2006, and flood duty in 2008. That is only part of the highlight reel for a 58-year-old Oquawka man who is about to hang up his combat boots after a military career that has spanned nearly 40 years.
Staff Sgt. Norris Crooks, of . . .