Here is a case in point:
Deputy Lauren Holley spent her holiday season with family and friends.
 Deputy Holley, 27, is a law enforcement deputy assigned to Patrol District III. She is a graduate of Florida Southern College with a degree in criminal justice. She went into active duty with the U.S. Army in 2004 as a 2nd Lieutenant and then attended Airborne School. After being stationed in Korea for a year and then in Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia for over two years, she joined the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, the largest National Guard unit in the state of Florida. When she joined the National Guard she was told that her unit was in rotation and in June 2009 they kept their promise by notifying her that on January 5, 2010, she will be deployed to Kuwait.
 Now an Army captain, Deputy Holley is anxious to serve her time in the Middle East. “All right, let’s just do it. I want to just go and do it,’’ she says. She has the same attitude about working at the Sheriff’s Office, anxious to get the job done. Holley has been with HCSO for almost a year.
“It’s the closest thing to military life, without the instability,” she says. Deputy Holley hit the ground running as a deputy. On her third day in patrol, she located a suspect in the shooting and wounding of a deputy in Town 'N Country. The suspect was hiding in the back seat of a car. “We set up a perimeter and Deputy (Kari) McVeigh and I approached this vehicle and saw a big pile of clothes in the back seat moving up and down.”
.jpg.aspx?width=200&height=133) Deputy Holley says she will be missed by her family, including her twin sister, a younger sister and brother, and her mother. “My mom pinned me when I became Captain. I know she’s proud of me, but like any mom I know she’s nervous and anxious” she says.
Holley will be stationed in Kuwait serving in the Signal Corps which develops, tests, provides, and manages communications and information systems support for the command and control of combined armed forces.
May God bless all of our troops.
HCSO Employees Called To Active Duty:
| Name |
HCSO Rank |
Military Branch |
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| Larissa Anderson |
Dispatcher |
Army National Guard |
| Richard Burton |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army Reserve |
| Jose Casillas |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army Reserve |
| Rosmelynn Castillo |
Detention Deputy |
Army Reserve |
| Pedro Cortes |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army National Guard |
| Daniel Cortes |
Detention Deputy |
Army National Guard |
| Henry Enchenique |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army National Guard |
| Luibeth Fortes |
CSO |
Army National Guard |
| David M. Freeman |
Child Protection Investigator |
Army Reserve |
| Lawrence "Brad" Goodwin |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army National Guard |
| Craig Henson |
Law Enforcement Corporal |
Army National Guard |
| James McDaniel |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army National Guard |
| Daniel Myrick |
Detention Deputy |
Army National Guard |
| Anibal Nieves |
Detention Deputy |
Army National Guard |
| Peter Palm |
Law Enforcement Detective |
Army National Guard |
| Jasen A. Pask |
Detective |
Army National Guard |
| Greg Peake |
Data Processing/Telecom Tech |
Army National Guard |
| Joel Ryals |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army Reserve |
| Ayanna Salmon |
Detention Deputy |
US Air Force |
| Sean Sadler |
Detention Deputy |
Navy |
| William Scobie |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army National Guard |
| Kiel Jason Varga |
Detention Deputy |
Marines |
| Dario Vasquez |
Law Enforcement Deputy |
Army Reserve |
| Richard Wester |
Detention Deputy |
Marines |
| Robert Wilson |
Detention Deputy |
Army National Guard |
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