TSgt Rick Petersen

TSgt Rick Petersen

Dates of Service: Sep 1974 - May 1980
RETIRED
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US Navy 1974-1980 (Active) --VAW115, USS Midway CV41, AIRCRAFT MACHINIST MATE, AD2; US Navy 1983-1985 (Reserves) --NAS Whidbey Island, AIMD; Air National Guard 1985-1995 (retired) --105th TCS, GROUND RADIO TECHNICIAN, TSGT; US Army Corps of Engineers 2008 - present --FESTA Teams, 34 EN DET & 565 EN DET 2009-2017, Mechanical Engineer - US Army Corps Of. Engineers (Currently)

Military Experiences

Jan 2016 - Aug 2016
Mobile District
Mechanical Engineer, 565th EN DET, FEST-A
Aug 2009 - Jan 2016
Seattle District
Mechanical Engineer, 34th EN DET, FEST-A
Apr 2008 - Aug 2009
Middle East District
Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), Lead Engineer for Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar, and Nuristan Provinces for the US Army Corps of Engineers.
Jun 1985 - Sep 1995
256 CCS
Ground Radio Repairman
105 TCS, Spokane WA (decommissioned)--Maintained VHF ground to air radio equipment

Deployments

(5 years, 9 months)
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
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Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR)
US Army Corps of Engineers FESTA team: Facility assessment support to military operations against ISIS/ISIL
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
Operation Atlantic Resolve
US Army Corps of Engineers FESTA team: Facility assessments in former Soviet Eastern Europe
Sep 2013 - May 2014
Afghanistan ribbon
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) - Afghanistan
US Army Corps of Engineers FESTA team: Base construction in Kandahar, Shindand, Leatherneck/Bastion AFG
Feb 2011 - Dec 2011
Iraq ribbon
Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF)
Provincial Reconstruction Team in Mosul, Union 3 (Baghdad), and Tallil Iraq.

Academic Degrees

Academic Degrees

1980 - 1986

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