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Veteran Plants Seeds of Success in Rural Oklahoma BY E MMA W R I GHT ('2 0) There are a multitude of different ways to go about finding one’s vocation. For Ethan Feuerborn, enlisting in the Marine Corps after high school is what drove him to eventually get a degree at Southern Nazarene University (SNU) and find his vocation teaching and coaching in rural Oklahoma.
IT WAS HIS TIME IN AFGHANISTAN THAT CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE HIS SERVICE TO HIS COMMUNITY.
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Graduating in 2006 from Washington High School, a small rural school in Oklahoma, Feuerborn decided to enlist in the Marine Corps, following the legacy of his brother, father and grandfathers who participated in various military positions throughout their lives. From 2006 to 2010, Feuerborn was deployed twice, ending up in Afghanistan for his second deployment. It was his time in Afghanistan that continues to influence his service to his community. Stationed in a small farming town, Feuerborn participated in the “largest heliborne operation since the Vietnam War” that aimed to build relationships with the local Afghan people and assist in building their infrastructure in hopes of convincing them to switch from growing poppies to wheat.
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