In our continuing series of interviews with Marines stationed in Afghanistan, managing editor Tami Roleff talked recently with Corporal Damian Davis, an embarkation specialist with Regimental Combat Team-7, about deployments, family, and the Marine Corps…
Corporal Damian Davis proves that you don’t have to be a youngster just out of high school to join the military. Davis enlisted when he was 27 and went to boot camp when he was 28. “Due to the recession, I lost my job. My younger brother was in the Marine Corps. You only get one shot.” Davis was married 2010, but he hasn’t spent much time with his wife and family. “I went on my first deployment to Afghanistan in 2010; I’ve spent two years in Afghanistan.” He said his wife, Takia, wasn’t too happy about his second year-long deployment to Afghanistan. “She didn’t like the first one. I really didn’t want to tell her. But I didn’t want to leave the house and not come back for a year.” But Davis is philosophical about the separations. “It comes with the territory. I signed a contract. It’s not as bad.” He keeps busy as an embarkation specialist, moving people and equipment between the States and Afghanistan, and in country as well. “I’m like the UPS and travel agent for the Marine Corps.”
