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From enlisted soldier to colonel, Minnesota man reflects on 40 years of service
He rose from enlisted mechanic to senior logistics officer while teaching English and balancing military duties with a family of seven children.
- After more than four decades of service, Minnesota teacher Aaron Cheadle is retiring as a colonel, having risen from an 18-year-old Army National Guard enlistee to one of the Army's senior officer ranks.
- Cheadle's service included approximately 20 years in the Army National Guard and 20 years in the Army Reserve, where he managed logistics operations across Japan, Kuwait, Iraq, and Guatemala.
- Balancing military duties with seven children required significant planning, said his wife, Laura Cheadle, a former staff sergeant who served 17 years in the Army before retiring with an honorable medical release.
- Outside his military career, Cheadle teaches English at Fulda High School and plans to remain at the school for another decade after retiring from active service.
- "I liked being part of something bigger than myself," Cheadle said, noting he has spent his entire adult life in the military as a resident of Fulda in southwest Minnesota.
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From enlisted soldier to colonel, Minnesota man reflects on 40 years of service
FULDA, Minn. — When Aaron Cheadle enlisted in the Army National Guard in 1985, he was an 18-year-old high school student with little idea of what military life would hold for him. More than four decades later, Cheadle is retiring as a colonel after a military career that took him overseas, into leadership positions across multiple states and from the enlisted ranks to one of the Army's senior officer ranks. “I don't even know what it's like to b…
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