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FROM THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS

Harvard To Quantico,

And Now, To Okinawa

CCS Standout Laura Derouin Soldiers On
Standing in front of her family's Wall of Service – five Derouin veterans are presented there, going back to World War I – Marine Lt. Laura Derouin shows off her official military portrait. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Standing in front of her family’s Wall of Service – five Derouin veterans are presented there, going back to World War I – Marine Lt. Laura Derouin shows off her official military portrait. (Jim Kevlin/AllOTSEGO.com)

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 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit…

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