10/27/2021
Capt. Joshua D. Dandridge decided at age 11 that he wanted to serve “something bigger than himself.”
“I just always felt called to the field of service,” the logistics officer said. “I wanted to be a member of a team … and that’s just where I found it, with the Army.”
Dandridge said his family is intimately connected to military service and war. His grandfather, Billy Rae Stacks, is a retired Army field artilleryman who served two tours in the Vietnam War, and his grandmother, Joanne Stacks, is a refugee of the Korean War who survived North Korean hostility. Additionally, his father, Buck Enfinger, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom after 9/11, and ultimately retired from the South Carolina National Guard.
“That also inspired me to serve and stand up for what is right against those who would seek to oppress others,” he said.
“The Army just opened up so many doors that I would have never been able to [go through] had I not been in the military,” the logistics officers said. “It’s been one door after another, and I keep walking through them."
Read his full story here: https://www.1tsc.army.mil/News/Article/2814455/why-i-serve-its-been-one-door-after-another-and-i-keep-walking-through-them/
