Master sergeant retires

Thursday, July 5, 2007

A retirement ceremony was recently held for Master Sgt. Jerry Hammonds of the Missouri National Guard. Hammonds began his military career in 1971 when he was drafted and served a tour in Vietnam as a military intelligence analyst with the 101st Airborne Division from 1971 to 1972. When he joined the Guard in 1975, he was looking for a change. "I wanted to do something different. I wanted to go to maintenance," Hammonds said.

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