steve mount

Steve joined the military prior to 9/11, born to missionary parents in Panama and raised between San Diego and Los Angeles surfing the coast. After graduating from UC Riverside he commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Marines in 1996. During his first deployment while conducting training operations in Darwin, Australia, in 2001, attached to the 15th MEU as a UH1N pilot with Helicopter Marine Light Attack Squadron (HMLA)-169 — they received the news of what was unfolding back home. Steve told the Communities Digital News, “It was a very anxious and excitable kind of feeling that we were out in the Arabian Sea and the country had been attacked and more than likely we were going to do something about it.”  ​

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