Full Text of HR1411 99th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 | | Representatives wish to congratulate Chief Tony Hernandez on | 4 | | the occasion of his retirement as the Law Office Manager to the | 5 | | Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in | 6 | | the Pentagon; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, On November 23, 1992, at the age of 17, Tony | 8 | | Hernandez enlisted in the United States Navy and attended | 9 | | Recruit Training in Orlando, Florida; in March 1993, he | 10 | | reported to his first command on the USS Savannah, homeported | 11 | | in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as an undesignated Seaman | 12 | | in the Deck Department; while onboard, he completed his first | 13 | | Mediterranean deployment and numerous other underway command | 14 | | exercises; in July of 1994, he was promoted to the rank of | 15 | | Boatswain Mate Third Class Petty Officer; upon the | 16 | | decommissioning of the USS Savannah in July of 1995, he | 17 | | reported to Assault Craft Unit 2, located in Little Creek, | 18 | | Virginia, where he was assigned to Landing Craft Utility 1662 | 19 | | as the Leading Boatswain Mate; he was then deployed on his | 20 | | second major deployment with the USS Saipan and earned his | 21 | | Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist device; and
| 22 | | WHEREAS, After his successful tour at Assault Craft Unit 2, | 23 | | Tony Hernandez transferred to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, |
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| 1 | | located in Little Creek, Virginia, in March of 1998; as a | 2 | | qualified Assault Boat Coxswain and a 15-Ton Mobile Crane | 3 | | operator, he was deployed to Cape Canaveral, Florida as a Heavy | 4 | | Lift Operator in support of the United States Air Force Titan | 5 | | IV Spacecraft Recovery; in July of 1999, he was promoted to the | 6 | | rank of Petty Officer Second Class and was selected as the | 7 | | MDSU-2 FY-99 Senior Shore Sailor of the Year, becoming the only | 8 | | non-United States Navy Diver to be selected for the | 9 | | designation; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, In May of 2001, Tony Hernandez was accepted for a | 11 | | lateral conversion to the Legalman (LN) rating and reported for | 12 | | duty under instruction to Naval Justice School in Newport, | 13 | | Rhode Island; after completing LN "A" School, he was converted | 14 | | to Legalman Second Class (LN2) in July of 2001; his first | 15 | | Legalman tour was at Naval Air Station Keflavik, Iceland, where | 16 | | he served in the Staff Judge Advocate Office as the Command | 17 | | Legalman; in June of 2003, he was promoted to Petty Officer | 18 | | First Class; in April of 2004, he reported to the USS Carl | 19 | | Vinson, homeported in Bremerton, Washington, where he served as | 20 | | the leading Petty Officer in the Legal Department; while | 21 | | onboard, he was deployed to his third major deployment, which | 22 | | included combat operations in support of Operation Iraqi | 23 | | Freedom, and earned his Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist | 24 | | device; and
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| 1 | | WHEREAS, In October of 2006, Chief Tony Hernandez reported | 2 | | to the Office of the Judge Advocate General, located in the | 3 | | Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., where he served as the Executive | 4 | | Assistant to the Command Master Chief and Command Career | 5 | | Counselor to the Naval Legal Service Commands; in September of | 6 | | 2009, he was promoted to Chief Petty Officer; in November of | 7 | | 2009, he reported to the USS Essex, located in Sasebo, Japan, | 8 | | where he served as the Independent Duty Legalman onboard; in | 9 | | October of 2011, he assumed the duties as the Law Office | 10 | | Manager to the Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint | 11 | | Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon; and | 12 | | WHEREAS, Chief Tony Hernandez's personal awards include | 13 | | the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, three Navy and Marine | 14 | | Corps Commendation Medals, five Navy and Marine Corps | 15 | | Achievement Medals, and numerous campaign medals and ribbons; | 16 | | and
| 17 | | WHEREAS, Chief Tony Hernandez and his wife Denise live in | 18 | | Hometown with their daughters, Maya and Elliana; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, Chief Tony Hernandez serves as a model of hard | 20 | | work, integrity, and dedication for the people of the State of | 21 | | Illinois; therefore, be it
| 22 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| 1 | | NINETY-NINTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 2 | | congratulate Chief Tony Hernandez on the occasion of his | 3 | | retirement and wish him continued success and happiness in the | 4 | | future; and be it further
| 5 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 6 | | presented to Chief Tony Hernandez as a symbol of our esteem and | 7 | | respect.
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