Who has been in the news?

2014-04-23T16:34:41-04:00

Back in 2005, I was helping a recruiter at a job fair. The local paper did a piece on it, and my picture (with an inaccurate job title) was picked up by the AP.

It was probably attractive to other outlets because the prospect we were talking to was wearing a Green Day American Idiot T-shirt.

This, comrades, is how my face wound up as representing failure of the Army's recruiting efforts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR [login to see] 897.html

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Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 23 at 2014 9:40 PM

2014-04-23T21:40:24-04:00

I made the Bolivian newspaper when I attended a diplomatic reception at the Ecuadorian Embassy in Bolivia.

Response by SSG Jeffrey Spencer made Apr 23 at 2014 9:45 PM

2014-04-23T21:45:47-04:00

The Sacramento Bee did a special interest article on me back in 1993 when I won the area salsa contest. I went to Reno for the International Salsa contest and placed 8th.

Response by SGT Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 23 at 2014 10:54 PM

2014-04-23T22:54:30-04:00

I was lucky.

Just this month i was quated at a local news paper after 16 people from my unit (including myself) returend successfully from the bataaon bataan memorial that's March

Response by MCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 24 at 2014 12:05 AM

2014-04-24T00:05:04-04:00

I was the Coast Guard spokesman for probably three dozen televised news reports, another 60-80 print articles, and a couple of "in depth" interviews: one for being the Coastie Liaison at the Air Force Senior NCO Academy, and another for an upcoming deployment (back in 2002).

I'm glad I already knew how the media worked - the worst I got was a great big drip of snot coming out of my nose during a major ship grounding on Long Island, NY, when it was 10 degrees and gale-force winds. My entire face was numb, and the reporter insisted on getting the interview with the grounded ship in the background. Bad choice on my part.

Response by PO3 Candace Gracik made Apr 24 at 2014 7:26 PM

2014-04-24T19:26:06-04:00

I was the leader of a Culinary Arts team in the Coast Guard in 2009 were we won first place in Iron Chef, and individually placed first in Cake Decorating and Sugar Sculpting. We were published in several areas including the Coast Guard Magazine in 2007 for the Culinary Olympics and in many other media outlets.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 24 at 2014 7:56 PM

2014-04-24T19:56:12-04:00

I ran a support group for the Crohns and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). I help stage a bowl-a-thon where we raised over 22,000 for research for that disease. We had race cars, 22 Tampa Bay Bucs, two TV radio stations and a TV station. Reginald Rountree of Channel 10 called my house and asked me how I did that. The year before they had 2 lanes and that year we had 22 lanes.

I have also forecast the weather on or about 100 radio stations in the USA, Caribbean and the Philippines and also help short track racing across this country. I have helped with the Florida Blood Services at Hooters where we did a blood drive.

My current aim is to spread awareness of ALS in the military population using these radio stations, race tracks and the media to this end.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 24 at 2014 9:15 PM

2014-04-24T21:15:49-04:00

I did an interview while I was recruiting in Ohio. I had actually forgotten about it and figured that it was in the middle near the obituaries. About a month later I was walking by a news paper box and saw my face on the front page of the paper...needless to say I did a double take.

http://blog.cleveland.com/brunswicksuntimes/2011/01/emily_wesemann_brunswick_sun_p.html

Emily Wesemann: Brunswick Sun Person of the Week

While a life in the Army proposes to show recruits the world, Sgt. Emily Wesemann found a new appreciation for her old hometown.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 25 at 2014 6:54 AM

2014-04-25T06:54:44-04:00

A couple of times on DVIDs for our DART Training in Iraq

Response by WO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 26 at 2014 12:14 PM

2014-04-26T12:14:56-04:00

For a short while if you Googled "Infantry" there was an image of me shaking GEN Casey's hand in a chow hall in Korea. Which is funny since I'm a Scout...

Response by 1LT Nick Kidwell made Feb 21 at 2015 1:32 PM

2015-02-21T13:32:18-05:00

I and my family were interviewed by a relatively clueless local reporter not long before my company mobilized to Iraq, and we were broadcast on that night's news.