Branch of Service: United States Navy
MOS/Rate: Fire Controlman Aegis 2nd Class. Operated and maintained the SPY-1D Radar system.
Program & Graduation Year: B.S. Electrical Engineering / December 2024
This picture was taken shortly after I had finished basic training in June 2014. I was scheduled to start further education training in my job field at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois and had the weekend off to spend with my parents. I believe this picture was taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where we had traveled to and attended a Polish festival.
The temple book culturally ties me to the land in which I was stationed. I was stationed on the USS John S. McCain DDG 56 for four years, homeported in Yokosuka, Japan. The temple book was like a timestamp and a record book which indicated each temple I had visited with my girlfriend and got their own unique stamp. Although I have filled out many pages in the book thus far, it still serves me as a reminder of what I still have not finished. My next goal with this book is to return to the top of Mount Fuji again and get the temple stamp there.