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Service members listed for training and deployments Midwest wide
Seaman Apprentice Joseph R. Foraker of Homewood and Downers Grove completes basic training at Great Lakes and attends Tech Corps there. Dozens of other service members from Illinois communities, including Flossmoor, Matteson, Park Forest, Crete and Beecher, are listed with basic training completions, sustainment trainings, deployments aboard USS Carl Vinson and USS Boxer, and affiliate high school graduations.
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Joseph R. Foraker
Dawn M. Gutierrez
Homewood
Jeffrey Foraker
Downers Grove
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Tech Corps
Great Lakes
Navy
Alfred A. Caston
Alfred
Aletha A. Caston
Flossmoor
Pacific Ocean
Carl Vinson
Bremerton
Wash
Homewood-Flossmoor High School
Richard W. Olson
Richard Olson
Matteson
Mary Graf
Blue Island
Asheville
Pearl Harbor
Olson
Rich South High School
Ellen M. Johnson
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
San Diego
Calif
Richton Park
Jack S. Kaufman
Howard E. Kaufman
Crete
Hawaii
13Th Marine Expeditionary Unit
Uss Boxer
Marine Catholic High School
Chicago Heights
Marine Corps
Kaufman
Eastern Illinois University
Charleston
Kristina E. Domme
Gary R. and
Margi A. Domme
U.S. Navy
Recruit Training Command
Cpl
Andrew Scudella
Adrian J. Scudella
Stagg High School
Palos Hills
Gregory Glaeser
Western Pacific
Indian Oceans
Arabian Gulf
Glaeser
Gerri Zielinski
Orland Park
David Glaeser
Park Forest
Sandburg High School
Michael Jinks
Sandra Zeman
Steger
Parris Island
S.C
Dawson County High School
Dawsonville
Shaun Showalter
Robert Showalter
Sandra Haggerty
Marine Corps Service Support School
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Crete-Monee High School
Air Force
Philip K. Dettmering
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Texas
Dettmering
Philip A. Dettmering
Bryan T. Allen
Diane Brown
Coronado
U.S. Third Fleet
Point Loma
Allen
Bloom Trail High School
Sauk Village