I joined the Colorado Army National Guard in 2009 and had my twenty second birthday while completing 11/C infantry mortarman training at Fort Benning, GA. I applied for the Routt County Sheriff's Office shortly after basic training, and my career in law enforcement and the military began. Life was busy! Drill weekends with the National Guard at an armory three hours away from home, twelve hour graveyard shifts in the jail, all the while spending as much time as I could with m