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Military news: Jacob E. Morrison
Army 1st Lt. Jacob E. Morrison has returned to Fort Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska after being deployed to Afghanistan for one year. The soldier is one of 3,500 members of the 4th Airborne Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division stationed at Fort Richardson. Airborne combat team members included soldiers assigned to one of six battalions and regiments of the 25th Infantry Division.
The airborne brigade served in three eastern provinces of Afghanistan, which included the Paktya, Paktika and Khost. Some of the challenges the brigade soldiers faced included poverty, unemployment, security, and management of natural resources and government institutions. Soldiers improved roads, provided vocational training in construction and civics, improved and re-opened 29 schools, remodeled six medical clinics and improved three district courthouses.
While deployed in Afghanistan, he was decorated with the Combat Action Badge, the Bronze Star Medal, and was promoted to first lieutenant.
Morrison, a M1 Abrams tank systems maintainer, is normally assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment. He has served in the military for two years.
He is the son of Mike and LaNelle Morrison, Deer Park. His wife, Rachel, is the daughter of Jesse Gonzales of Fort Worth. The lieutenant graduated in 2003 from Deer Park High School, and received a bachelor's degree in 2008 from Sam Houston State University.