Political Quotes

“today I wish to recognize the life and service of Col. Ossen D'Haiti, who is retiring from Active Duty in the U.S. Marine Corps after 27 years. From an early age, he felt called to military service and attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point. As an engineering cadet, he sailed abroad on four ocean-going vessels with port calls in Egypt, Israel, Greece, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, and England. In 1990, he graduated Kings Point with a bachelor of science in marine engineering and a U.S. Coast Guard third assistant engineer's license. Commissioned as a Marine Corps officer, Colonel D'Haiti spent the next 27 years as an AV-8B Harrier pilot, completing notable assignments both in and out of the cockpit. He has deployed with aviation detachments aboard the USS Nassau, LHA-41, and the USS Bonhomme Richard, LHD-6, and has flown over 150 combat missions during Operations Joint Endeavor and Guardian Retrieval in 1996, Operations Enduring Freedom and Anaconda in 2002, and Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2006-2007. He has also served on the staff of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Navy, the Commandant of the Marine Corps' Strategic Initiatives Group, and the Marine Corps Forces Central Command Coordination Element forward deployed in Bahrain.…”