Rep. Sara Wojcicki Jimenez (R-Leland Grove) is seeing to it Cpl. Chad Young is remembered.
Introduced at the April 20 House floor debate, Jimenez presented HR74, which designates a portion of Route 4 through Chatham as the "U.S. Army Corporal James 'Chad' Young Memorial Highway," to her peers.
Jimenez noted Young’s military career.
Rep. Sara Wojcicki Jimenez (R-Leland Grove)
According to the bill text, Young “joined the United States Army in 2004; he served in Korea before being deployed to Afghanistan for the first time, returning in late 2007; he was called back for a second tour of duty and arrived in Afghanistan in early June of 2010; where he was assigned to the 863rd Engineer Battalion.”
Young died Nov. 3, 2010, in Nar-Kariz in the Kandahar province of Afghanistan and was promoted to corporal posthumously.
HRJ74 passed 105-0.
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