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Who is Jim Thiessen?
CEO
Western Discoveries Inc.
Publisher
Colorado Explorer Magazine
I earned the Expert Infantry Badge in South Korea in 1989. I served as an infantryman (11B) during my time in the Army (1983 - 1998). I served in the following units:
- 3rd Platoon, A Company, 2nd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Division
- 1st Platoon, Joint Security Force (JSF) Company, Joint Security Area (JSA), Pan Mun Jom, Korea
- 1st Platoon, A Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division
- 2nd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment, 96th Infantry Division
- 2nd Brigade, 91st Infantry Division
"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the Army which gives more and gets less than anybody else." Bill Mauldin, Up Front (1945)