The completed Mallard Creek wastewater treatment plant , built by PRESA Construction for the City of Charlotte Water Department .
be able to join the United States Marine Corps ( USMC ).
Once he got to boot camp , Pedro remembers wondering what he ’ d gotten himself into , but there was no turning back . “ There ’ s only one way out – you have to graduate . They will keep recycling you in boot camp until you finally make it through or they break you . I stuck it out and was able to graduate without being recycled .” From there , he got more in-depth combat training and turned a childhood love of using tools and fixing things into his Military Occupation Specialty ( MOS ) in the Combat Engineer field . “ I remember starting my first job in
New Jersey at 11 years old – I went around with a shoe-shining kit that my dad and I had built together , so the idea of learning to fix complex machinery and do military construction really appealed to me .”
Pedro worked in a number of countries , including Okinawa , Japan , where he earned the title of Meritorious Corporal within three months . In Iraq , he worked hand-in-hand with Navy Combat Engineers “ See-Bees ” to build the necessary infrastructure for a military base . “ We ’ d been living in bunkers within a perimeter lined with sandbags , eating military rations ( MREs ) because we didn ’ t have anything better , so I was part of
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