derrick ross

Derrick is a natural storyteller, a hard charger, and speaks on experience. Ever since childhood growing up in Skokie, a small suburb outside of Chicago, he dreamed about being a soldier. At 17-years-old between his junior and senior years of high school, Derrick went to basic training while in the Army reserves and upon graduation he went to job training in 2007 as an 89B (Ammunition Specialist). “I realized the civilian life wasn’t what I wanted, so I went active duty and got deployed to COB Adder, near Nasiriyah, Iraq,” Derrick said. “I spent the whole deployment outside the wire doing gun truck security convoys. We would escort 40-45 semi-trucks in a row all night to deliver supplies.”

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