Face of Defense: Long Commute Doesn’t Deter Guard Soldier
By Eric Durr, New York Army National Guard / Published March 16, 2017
Mason, a patient administrative team leader assigned to the New York Army National Guard's Medical Command, puts about 1,400 miles on his car each drill weekend.
He drives from Mooresville, North Carolina, where he's lived since 2014, to Camp Smith, or sometimes two hours further north to the Joint Force Headquarters in Latham.
He does it, Mason said, because he likes his unit and he promised Army Col. Richard Green, the MEDCOM commander, that he would stay with the unit after he was sent to school to reclassify as a patient administrative specialist, Military Occupational Specialty 68G. That school, Mason said, allowed him to get promoted.
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