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Title
John Trodden
Over There Nowadays
Contributor
Adamski, Chris
Loya, Jake
Rollins, Chris
Date Created and/or Issued
2011-05-11
Publication Information
http://anotherwarmemorial.com/john-trodden/
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
An Other War Memorial -- Memories of the American War in Viet Nam
Rights Information
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Description
Chris Rollins was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is currently in his fifth year at USC finishing up a Bachelor's in earth sciences and a minor in physics. He will be enrolling in the Geophysics Ph.D. program at Caltech in fall 2011. Chris Adamski was raised in Texas and enlisted in the Marine Corps at 18 years of age. He completed 4 years serving with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines based in Kaneohe Bay, HI. During his tenure with 1/3 he deployed twice to Iraq in service to Operation Iraqi Freedom. In 2009 he was accepted into the Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program (MECEP) at the University of Southern California. He is currently a Junior there and is majoring in International Business. Upon graduation, Chris will return to the Marine Corps to serve as a commissioned officer. Jacob Loya is originally from Diamond Bar, CA until he joined the Marine Corps in August 2004. As a Marine Jacob was a Signals Intelligence Analyst stationed in Kunia, Hawaii until he was accepted in the Marine Enlisted Commissioning Education Program. He will earn his degree in Political Science and return to the fleet Marine Corps as a commissioned Officer. [Profiler bio]
John Trodden was born in the San Francisco Bay Area and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1996. After graduating from boot camp, a Marine combat training school, and a personnel administration school, Trodden served in the 1st Light Armor Reconnaissance Battalion, the 1st Battalion 4th Marines, and the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, the last of which was deployed in 2005-2006 to Fallujah, Iraq. Trodden was awarded a Combat Action Ribbon for his actions during an ambush of his squad while deployed in Fallujah. Since his return from Iraq, Trodden has been working in the Marine Enlisted Commissioning Program and the Reserve Officer Training Corps at USC, where he is also majoring in communications. [Profile bio]
Type
image
Format
1 image
1 video file (00:10:26)
1 transcript
Identifier
troddenjohn-profileimage
troddenjohn-vid1
troddenjohn-vid1_tr1
http://doi.org/10.25549/viet-c80-108
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/troddenjohn-profileimage.jpg
Language
English
Subject
War
Deployment
Enlistment
Marine corp
Time Period
1996
Place
California
San Francisco
Fallujah
USA
Iraq
Source
University of Southern California [Contributing entity]
Relation
An Other War Memorial--Memories of the American War in Viet Nam

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