Battlefield promotion for SGT Penderman
The Stars & Stripes reports that Jeremy Penderman, a multichannel transmission systems operator/maintainer, while serving in Iraq with Fort Bragg’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division as the brigade’s S6 communications shop leader, has received a battlefield promotion to Staff Sergeant. He’s occupying an officer’s duty position as a sergeant.
Today, Penderman might have been a Marine if it wasn’t for one more discovery.
“I found out about the airborne,” he said.
Over spring break his freshman year – March 2010 – Penderman walked into a recruiting center and enlisted in the Army.
At first, he wanted to be an airborne infantryman, but a recruiter instead guided him through a list of available jobs.
He described Penderman’s current military occupational specialty, known as a 25Q, as “half infantry, half radios” and promised he could still become a paratrooper. Also, the job came with an enlistment bonus.
Since enlisting, Penderman spent more than four years in Germany with the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team before joining the 82nd Airborne Division about two years ago.
He has seven years in the Army and plans to apply to become a warrant officer in the Signal Corps. While he wants to stay in the Army as long as possible, he said the skills he’s learned have opened the door to a bright future no matter if he wears the uniform or not.
Category: Real Soldiers
BZ!
Bravo Zulu, SSgt. Penderman!
Finally a Signal guy!!!! Airborne!
Lol. Here come the 25Q posers in 3… 2… 1
Way to go SSG!
Sounds like Blood Stripes may be making a comeback.
BZ.
Way to go, SSG.
BZ!
Good job Staff Sergeant Penderman. Keep it up troop!
Outfuckingstanding, SSG Penderman!
Now we need to talk about your recruiter. He put a damn good man into my beloved Signal Corps, but his sales pitch was highly questionable!
“Recruiter” and “sales pitch was highly questionable.”
Redundant, like “Military” and “Intelligence.”
🙂
True, dat.
“half infantry, half radios” is pretty much bullshit. I’m a retired 31Q/31M/31R/25Q/31W/25W (24 yrs). If it’s half infantry, you’re doing it wrong and you’re being overrun.
A refreshing story among so much negative stuff. Well done, young man, and hope you make it to Warrant. You seem to have the ‘right stuff’.
Signal. Nice career move. Good paying jobs await him on the outside.
Well done, young man. All best with your future endeavors.
(How do you spell “hooah?” Throw in however it’s spelt with the hearty appreciation of the Air Force.)
You got it right, lady. (smile)
Signal Corps….
“You can talk about us but you can’t talk without us”
A former 31E, Single Channel Field Radio Repairer.
Sweet.
So glad to see a good story on the Signal Corps! BZ Sarge, I wish you luck on the WO!! From a former MOS 31S30!
Great Job, SSG Penderman!
Unofficial motto of the Signal Corps:
When we do right no one remembers
When we do wrong no one forgets.
Having worked in many TOCs (Tactical Operations Centers) I’ve lost track of the times I’ve heard pissed off commanders yelling “SIGO! WHERE’S MY SIGO? WHY CAN’T I TALK TO MY UNITS GOD DAMMIT!”
I have starred in that movie many times. Pieces of my ass are still at Bragg, Dominican Republic and Viet of the Nam.
I learned it not wise to respond with: “cause you moved a rifle company into a hole from which I told you that electrons would not pass,”
KY-68 could be out for hours, Non-secure phone kaput, SIPR down for days, nobody cares. But the shit hits the fan when NIPR is out and the commander can’t surf the net!
BTW the 173rd is in Germany now? I thought they were at Vicenza, Italy?
Hooyah, Staff Sergeant!