Mom follows Army, Marine sons into service

[unhappycamper]

Mom follows Army, Marine sons into service
The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Nov 29, 2007 20:10:09 EST

DOLLAR BAY, Mich. — Children often follow a parent’s career path. Vickie Myllyoja did the opposite, joining the military after her two sons signed up.

Myllyoja, 37, enlisted in the Army last June, a few months after her husband died of heart failure. A resident of Houghton County’s Torch Lake Township, she now is a private stationed in Fort Lee, Va.

Her son Coalton Campioni, 19, is an Army private first class deployed in Iraq. Another son, 18-year-old Cody Campioni, is a Marine private at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Vickie Myllyoja visited home over the Thanksgiving holiday before returning to duty.

She said she had a pragmatic reason for joining the Army: “The economy is just so bad, there really weren’t any jobs out there. I think Cody felt the same way.”

Myllyoja finished basic training in September, shortly after Cody. It definitely helped mother and son relate to each other.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/11/ap_armymom_071129/

[MADem]

1. Lords and serfs.... nt

[rakeeb]

2. reminded me of a story in the LA Times today

At 61, doctor joins Navy to honor his son
By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
December 1, 2007
SAN DIEGO -- When Marines came to his door a year ago to tell him that his eldest son had been killed in Iraq, Bill Krissoff reacted like any father: with confusion, devastation, then numbness.

Nathan Krissoff was so young, a lover of poetry, a champion athlete, a leader whose maturity and selflessness had impressed fellow Marines.

The father in Krissoff found no resolution to his grief. The physician in him did.

At an age when many people think about retirement, Krissoff decided earlier this year that he would enlist as a doctor. He was 60 years old, decades above the military's preferred demographic.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-doctor1dec01,0,7221630.story?coll=la-home-center