Mike Karpenkopfm

I got a chance to interview Mike Karpenkopfm, he is a United States Marine Corp. He grew up in Kharkov, Ukraine and migrated to the United States in 1992. He enlisted into the Marine Corps right after he graduated from Fort Hamilton high school, in Brooklyn. He was 18 at the time. He was raised in Brooklyn, but now resides in Staten Island. He did 3months of basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina. He also did 2 weeks in North Carolina for combat training and then another 3 to 4 months of military specialty training. Mike went out to Iraq for the Invasion in 2003. He served that year from February through May. His task while in service was to secure a certain area which was the oil fields. Mike is now 25 and he is inactive reserve . He can be called back to war until 2009.