Jutta Cortes:  

CLASS OF 1986
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Emmaus High SchoolClass of 1986
Emmaus, PA

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Life My the time has flown by. Since the last time I have seen most of you, a lifetime has passed...I entered the military a few months after we graduated. From there I was assigned to live in Athens Greece for 4 years where I met my husband and gave birth to my son Devon. Just after leaving Greece to move to Tampa Bay Fla, for the next 4 years, I divorced my husband and went on with life as a single parent. After 4 years there, I was transfered to Cheyenne Wy where I attended college in the evenings. After a few years I received my degree from Park College in Criminal Justice. I then decided to apply for a commission in the Air Force. After a few years, I received my commission and was reassigned to Knob Knoster Mo where I spent almost 2 years before heading back to WY for my second tour there but as an officer this time. During my time here, I was selected tio represent the Air Force as team leader for the first Air Force team to go to Iraq and train the Iraqi Army. It definitly has been a most exciting year here. Our training did not prepare us for what was ...Expand for more
instore. I learned many new skills and there are alot of experiences I will never forget from extracting an entire family from their home and into safety from insurgents to running convoys thru Iraq, from treating my soldiers who were hit by mortars to being accepted by the Iraqi Military as a leader they could go to and trust. I was so impressed by one of our young translators that was vital to our mission success that I volunteered to sponsor him to America while in persuit of his citizenship. After I returned in May 2005 I realized that my time in Iraq has forever changed me and makes me appreciate life so much more. Now that I find myself home this Christmas, it is almost surreal that the war still goes on and I am not there to help. January 2007 will finally bring my translator to America and I will get his set up at the local community college and guide him on his way to a new life lacking destruction and fear. 2007 will also bring the start of my new life again being single (husband could not ajust to me being deployed) and pressing forward with a new life.
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