Mother Honors Navy Veteran Who Is Now A Tampa Firefighter

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00:00Tampa Bay's morning crew want to honor and thank those who protect and serve our country.

00:05Time now for Military Monday on 99.5 QYK.

00:10We got Shelby on the phone and we are honoring her son Garrett today.

00:14Shelby, why don't you tell us about Garrett's service?

00:16Well, he's currently a Naval Air Crewman Petty Officer First Class in the Navy Reserve

00:22serving out of the MacDill Air Force Base currently.

00:25All right.

00:26He graduated Tampa Tech, so he's a local Tampa boy, and he went straight into the Navy out of high school.

00:32He did some training in Chicago, Pensacola, and that's where he became a Naval Airman Operator.

00:38Wow.

00:39Yeah, he did six years active in the Navy, and during that time he went on three deployments

00:45and had been in 17 countries and received four achievement medals, one which he was real proud of.

00:52They were on the national news.

00:53They found some stranded people off an island in micro-Indonesia, so that was pretty cool.

01:00That's very cool.

01:01An amazing story.

01:02You know, Shelby, you talked about him graduating from Tampa Tech.

01:04Is this something that he's wanted to do since high school, go into the service?

01:08Yes.

01:09Ever since high school, someone inspired him there, and so he joined, you know, right after high school

01:16and then went into the reserves where he joined the funeral honor guard, and he's almost done 300 funerals at this point.

01:25Wow.

01:25Well, that especially is a very honorable job.

01:27So what are his plans now?

01:28Recently, he just got done with some schooling at HCC and Kaiser, and he got his EMT, and went through firefighting school,

01:36and he's going to be a firefighter.

01:39It's so neat.

01:41The city of Tampa just hired him a week ago, so he's really excited.

01:45Oh, my gosh.

01:45You can't stop this kid.

01:47No, he really has a drive, and he loves serving others, and he loves his military.

01:53He's very proud of it.

01:54Well, he should be proud of his service, and we are proud of him, and so thankful for him following his calling

02:00and now his calling to serve even more as a firefighter.

02:03Sounds like an incredible young man.

02:05You've got to be a proud mom.

02:06And we'd like to do this.

02:07We'd like to give you a $100 Amex gift card from Tampa Premium Outlets to hand over to him.

02:12Small way for us to say thank you.

02:14Maybe you guys can do something together.

02:15Maybe he needs something.

02:16But we really appreciate you, Shelby.

02:18Tell us about your son, Garrett.

02:19Well, I'm sure he's going to be excited, and thank you.

02:23Our pleasure.

02:25Listen, we want to hear those stories about that loved one in your life.

02:28Nominate them for Military Monday or First Responder Friday.

02:31Love shining a light on them.

02:33It is well-deserved.

02:34Just go to 995QIK.com to nominate someone today.

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