MILITARY BRIEFS

Army Spc. Robert M.

Gardisser has returned to the U.S. after being deployed to Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. The servicemember is regularly assigned to the 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Wainwright, Fairbanks, Alaska.

Gardisser is an infantry/ weapons squad team leader with more than three years of military service.

He is the son of Cathy M.

and stepson of Robert W.

Dillion of Springdale.

His wife, Marisha, is the daughter of Leon H. and LisaA. Jones of Siloam Springs.

The specialist is a 2006 graduate of Prairie Grove High School.

Coast Guard Seaman Danielle M. Simon, daughter of Deborah and Gene Purdy of Bentonville, recently graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Recruit Training Center in Cape May, N.J.

Simon is a 2003 graduate of Bentonville High School.

She is a 2007 graduate of University of Central Arkansas in Conway with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Life, Pages 9 on 12/30/2009

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