FROM THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS

Harvard To Quantico,

And Now, To Okinawa

CCS Standout Laura Derouin Soldiers On

HARTWICK SEMINARY

When Laura Derouin headed off to Harvard five years ago, could dad Art, a former Army sergeant, have imagined joshing his daughter about the Basic Training perils of a poorly fitting gas-mask?

But there they were the other sunny afternoon, swapping yarns about military training on the front steps of the family’s Beaver Valley home, where Marine Lt. Laura Derouin is enjoying a couple weeks of R&R before heading off to her first assignment.

“I really wanted to go overseas,” she said, and she will spend the next two years on Okinawa with a Combat Logistics Battalion, part of the 31^st Marine Expeditionary Unit…

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