Ryan
Petrosky is the son of Mary and Lonnie Bathurst and a 2000 graduate of Litchfield High School. In 2004, he
graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. Degree in Finance. He then
enlisted in the Navy and after serving just under one year as an enlisted
sailor, was selected to attend Officer Candidate School. In 2005,
he received his commission and then attended the Naval Supply Corps School in
Athens Georgia. After training, he spent two years stationed onboard the
USS WASP (LHD 1), an amphibious assault ship whose primary mission is
transporting marines around the world and based in Norfolk, Va.
In May of 2008, he was "loaned" to the Army to serve in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Ryan attended combat training at Ft.
Riley, Kansas. While there, Ryan's class was challenged by one of the
instructors to share a first-hand account of each soldier's experience with
his or her local community so that, one by one, local communities here in
the US might have the opportunity to "see and hear" what is going on with
the troops in Afghanistan without the filter of the national media. As
a fulfillment to that challenge, Ryan is providing these articles to give
us a glimpse of his life at Camp Phoenix during his year-long deployment. He welcomes comments and questions at either of his email
addresses: petrogt@hotmail.com or
ryan.w.petrosky@afghan.swa.army.mil and promises to do his best to answer
everyone who writes to him.
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