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Guam Guard to commission new officer
The Guam National Guard will commission another new officer during a ceremony today, Aug. 30, beginning at 3pm in building 350 at the Guard’s Readiness Center in Barrigada.
Officer candidate Laurence Mariano joined the Guam Army National Guard in 2007 as a financial services technician assigned to the Guam National Guard Element.
In 2009, he was selected to perform active duty operational support at the National Guard Bureau Financial Services Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was later selected for an active guard reserve tour at the National Guard Bureau headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. In October 2017, Mariano returned to Guam to pursue an opportunity to attend Officer Candidate School. He graduated from OCS on July 27 at Rapid City, South Dakota.
Mariano will be commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army during a ceremony today, Aug. 30, at the Guard’s Readiness Center in Barrigada. Mariano will be branched infantry and assigned to Delta Company, 1st-294th Infantry Regiment as a platoon leader. (PR)
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- Photos show officer candidate Laurence Mariano after completing validation of Officer Candidate School, Phase 0, in Guam, in May; and immediately after graduating from OCS in Rapid City, South Dakota, in July. (GUAM NATIONAL GUARD)
