Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Julianna Pinder will report to duty Jan. 8 at the Marine Corps Recruiting RSS East in Aurora, Colorado, next door to Army Recruiting Aurora where she used to work.
Julianna Pinder, now a sergeant first class in the U.S. Army was forced out of the Marines for not meeting body composition requirements after having a baby.
Everly Dannemiller, all snuggled in a patriotic fleece blanket and with a tiny camouflage bow holding back her wisps of hair, didn’t really know what to make of the music played by the military band or the tears and smiles and laughs that Mom and Dad rained down on her all at once.
She’s just under 4 months old, so forgive her. But the sign affixed to the front of her stroller said it all: “I’ve waited my whole life to meet my Dada.”
Dada is Army Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Dannemiller, who was one of about
who returned home Tuesday afternoon from an 11-month overseas deployment in support of missions across Southwest Asia and the Middle East.