http://armystrongstories.com Army Strong Stories is an official U.S. Army blog portal created to share personal Soldier stories. Its purpose is to promote discussion surrounding life in the military, communicate the impact of day-to-day military life and follow the paths of Soldiers enlisted in different areas of the U.S. Army as they experience new opportunities. Fri, 25 May 2012 04:05:49 GMT Fri, 25 May 2012 04:05:49 GMT http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/travis-pamenter/a-soldier-from-wisconsin/ By: <a href='http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/travis-pamenter/'>Travis Pamenter</a><br /> I have had the privilege to serve for twenty years in the enlisted, cadet, and officer ranks. What began as a single ambition to serve for a few years as medic during the period of the &#8220;First Gulf War&#8221; has instead turned into a military career as a Medical Service Corps Officer which has taken me around the world and introduced me to peoples and cultures that I had only read about in books. So what took me from a 17 year old kid from Appleton, Wisconsin to a career military...<a href="http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/travis-pamenter/a-soldier-from-wisconsin/">read more</a> Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:16:00 GMT Travis Pamenter http://armystrongstories.com/blogger/travis-pamenter/a-soldier-from-wisconsin/