Goodin promoted to lieutenant colonel

Maj. Michael L. Goodin was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel at a ceremony held at The Women's Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery recently. Attending the ceremony from Cape Girardeau were his parents, Jim and Carolyn Goodin. Goodin is on the Air Staff at the Pentagon. He is a Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University graduate. Goodin and his wife, Ivonne, and children, Lainey, Erica and Gabriel, reside in Springfield, Va.

-- From staff reports