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July 31st, 2024

Grid Square Recon with Chris Lancia

  1. Grid Square Recon with Chris Lancia HomeFront Sitrep 1:28:37

Dedicated professional offering exceptional skills in leadership, event and project management, and communications. Proven ability to develop and maintain favorable Relationships with internal and external audiences. Excellent team-building abilities; able to motivate and work effectively with all types of people from diverse backgrounds while promoting team values. Adept at managing multiple tasks simultaneously; known for accuracy and attention to detail as well as excellent organizational and interpersonal skill sets. Consistent, focused performer who works efficiently to achieve high quality results under strict deadlines.

When a military family receives orders to move to a new location, accurate information can be hard to find. Most of what’s available is often outdated, irrelevant, or validates poor perceptions about the local community around the military installation.

Our aim is to provide information on areas surrounding military installations to build a more positive outlook and experience for military members and their families. Our goal is to replace the dread and Anxiety often associated with military moves with the anticipatory savoring associated with a new adventure.

We provide information on the community using written products, still and video imagery, and interviews to share stories of local citizens and military members.

But what’s up with that name? The military community uses the Military Grid Reference System to navigate. We use squares as a reference, and a ‘grid’ is how we find our location. When we get orders to move, the first thing we do is recon the area. Hence, Grid Square Recon.

David Willis HomeFront Sitrep Podcast

My name is David Willis, I knew at a very early age that I was going into the military but didn’t know what branch. As I got older and started learning about each branch and quickly figured out that the Marines was the best. I served in the Marine Corps from 97-04. My MOS was 0311(infantry). I went to Paris Island for boot camp after boot camp I was stationed with 2nd blt 8th Marines Golf company. While with 2/8 I went on several deployments to port a prince Haiti, Okinawa, South Korea, Greece, also did two trips to Bridgeport California for cold weather training, I wasn’t going to make a Mediterranean float so I extended and joined 1st blt 8th Marines Bravo company. During my time there we deployed to the Mediterranean and had stops in Spain, Italy, Malta, Africa, and other ports. I got out of the Marines in August of 01, but 9/11 happened and was recalled to go back in where I was stationed with a mobilization support battalion and deployed.

 

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