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forfathersproject: What’s your name and rank? Jason Jacob...

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What’s your name and rank?

Jason Jacob Henry, Sergeant First Class

How long have you been in the military?

12 years and 5 months

What’s your job?

I work in the Operations office for the 72nd Field Artillery Brigade, Division East, First Army. I serve as an Operations Sergeant in a Brigade S-3 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JB MDL) responsible for training support, mobilization, and demobilization operations for deploying and re-deploying Soldiers; manages the coordination of demobilizing unit outbriefs to training support battalions, 72nd BDE HQ, and 1AE HQ; generates fragmentary orders (FRAGOS) for the Brigade; provides the Operations Officer updates on the outbriefing schedule and suspense tracker; coordinates and assists with VIP visits to JB MDL; coordinates the Quarter and Annual Soldier and Noncommissioned Officer programs; and a husband and father.

How long have you been a father?

I have been a father since October 31, 2003.

What are some challenges of being a father while serving in the military?

Some challenges of being a father that I personally experienced are being unable to see your kids grow up in their first two years while being deployed, missing the birthdays and all the special days for the kids and the wife, being unable to help my wife with the kids while deployed, having your kids shy of you during the first time of meeting after a year of absence.

Do you have a unique story you’d like to share?

My daughter is three years old now. She was born 7/7/07 and a month later, I was gone for a readiness exercise for two months. After the two months, I was on leave for two weeks and then out for fifteen months to Iraq. The next time I saw her was on R&R (rest and recuperation) when she was eleven months old. She did not know me at all. She knew the face, but she was afraid to come close to me. I had to beg her to come to me on her 11th month so I could hold her in my arms or hug her. Eight months later, after deployment, she was still afraid of me. At this time, she was already a year and six months old, but her actions toward me was no different than when she was eleven months old. She could not call me Daddy. All I wanted to hear from her was the word “DADDY”. Until she was two years old, I tried everything and got her everything that I know a little princess would appreciate. Until August of 2009, when I had to leave again enroute to my next duty station where my family could not go, she call me Daddy for the first time when I was hugging and shaking everyone’s hands before I walked through the security gate at the Kosrae International Airport, FM. I was surprised to hear that. My wife told me at the moment she didn’t want me to leave she would say DADDY. She did not know that I was leaving until I started shaking hands and hugging everyone. She was thinking that I was going to leave for Iraq again. I tried to explain to her, but she would not take it. She kept on crying and saying I don’t want you to go. I was the last one to get on the plane. She broke me. I told her that we will meet again soon. Five months later, I met back up with them and she was the first one hugging me. The first thing out of her mouth was, “Are you leaving again?” I told her that yes, but with everyone. She was happy. Until today, I have been explaining to her why I go away from them and why I deploy. She is only three years old now and she tells me, when I put the uniform on, if I am going to go and fight the bad guys. By saying this, I know that eventually, she will fully understand what I do.

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FATHER | Coltrane Curtis is an entrepreneur, a husband and a dad.

“Watching my son grow up and develop a personality just makes me want to be a better boss so I can manage my business more efficiently so I can go home and spend more time with him. Fatherhood for me is everything. I want to be able to be that role model that my father was for me for Ellington. I just want to be able to spend as much time with him as possible. People say that I obsess about his look: I definitely obsess about his look, but I also obsess about his education. I just want him to have the education that allows him to do anything. Creating a well rounded, smart individual is the goal. I hope that I’m a great husband. I’ve been able to be the man that I want to be for my wife because I saw what my father was to my mother and what my grandfather was to my grandmother. I know that I‘ve had the right model to aspire to.” - Coltrane Curtis

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