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Christopher Murphy attended Winter Haven and Auburndale Senior High Schools prior to joining the United States Marine Corps in July 1996 where he spent most of his time at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
After completing his four-year contract, he returned to Florida and worked in warehousing and retail before deciding to reenlist with the U.S. Marine Corps in August of 2001.
For the next eleven years, he held many different job titles and completed multiple deployments to countries such as Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, Kuwait and Iraq. While away, he found time to enroll in college courses in Graphic Design at Independence University. After his final contract ended, he began working as an Administrative Assistant for the Provost Marshall’s Office for Homeland Security Solutions on Camp Lejeune and was promoted to Human Resource Assistant to recruit for the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Program.
In November of 2018, Christopher “Murph” joined the Ad-Vance family as a Recruiting Coordinator and can be found in the on-site office at Polk County Government.
Military Experiences
Jun 2010 - Jun 2012
Water Section Head/ Operation Chief/ Company Safety Hazmat
Feb 2008 - Jun 2010
Water Section Head/ Company Gunny/ Company Operation Chief
Oct 2001 - Oct 2004
Platoon Sergeant/ Water Section Marine
Deployments
(11 months)Feb 2003 - Jun 2003
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Since the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001, over 1.9 million US military personnel have been deployed in 3 million tours of duty lasting more than 30 days as part of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) or Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Those wars are fundamentally different from the first Gulf War and other previous wars in their heavy dependence on the National Guard and reserves and in the pace of deployments, the duration of deployments, the number of redeployments, the short dwell time between deployments, the type of warfare, the types of injuries sustained, and the effects on the service members, their families, and their communities. Moreover, OEF and OIF together make up the longest sustained US military operation since the Vietnam War, and they are the first extended conflicts to depend on an all-volunteer military. This background chapter is divided into three sections. The first provides information about the demographics of the all-volunteer military. The second highlights some of the issues faced by the troops who have served in OEF or OIF and their families that are being reported in the popular press, government reports, and the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
Feb 2002 - Jul 2002
Bulgaria
The multinational peacekeeping forces exercise, codenamed Cornerstone 2002, started in the village of Miryantsi near the town of Pazardzhik. More than 200 professional soldiers from seven countries in the Balkan region and another 130-member engineering brigade from the United States will take part in it. Cornerstone is a series of multinational “in the spirit of” Partnership for Peace exercises which provide an opportunity to enhance military interoperability with other nations. Cornerstone 2002 is the second exercise of the South-Eastern Europe Brigade (SEEBRIG) Engineering Task Force. This year, V Corps’ 130th Engineer Brigade takes the lead and teams with U.S. Navy, Marines and engineer units from Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey and the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia. The engineering units will train on task force and coalition organization and management while executing bridge construction and repair coupled with humanitarian assistance missions such as the renovation of a local orphanage and providing inoculations for local children. Corner Stone 2002 is funded under Partnership for Peace program and will continue till the end of June. A memorandum of understanding between the governments of Bulgaria and the US on Corner Stone 2002 in Bulgaria was ratified by Parliament at first reading May 22. The document was signed April 3, 2002. It regulates in detail the status of foreign troops during their stay in Bulgaria, as well as the rights and obligations of the host country and the country sending the troops. VAT payments that the host country has collected will be refunded to the sending country in compliance with the legislation of the host country.
Military Credentials
Certifications
2012
Master Trainer Suicide Prevention
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Security Clearance
Secret
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