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CHAPTER 2 EXECUTIVE BRANCH Farm Technology HONORABLE MENTION Jennifer Jones, Belle OFFICE OF GOVERNOR 33 Eric Greitens Governor Elected November 8, 2016 Term expires January 2021 ERIC GREITENS (Republican) was born and ing from Officer Candidate School, Eric received raised in Missouri. His mom, Becky, was an early orders to Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL childhood special education teacher, and his Training (BUD/S), and reported for duty. He grad- dad, Rob, worked for the Department of Agri- uated with BUD/S class 237. culture. He grew up with two younger brothers, Eric served as a U.S. Navy SEAL on four de- Marc and Aaron. Eric attended Missouri public ployments: in Afghanistan with a counterterror- schools, where he played baseball and soccer ism U.S. Special Operations Special Mission and got his first job while he was in elementa- Unit, as the commander of a Mark V Special ry school. In 1992, he graduated from Parkway Operations Craft Detachment in Southeast Asia, North High School in St. Louis. and as the commander of Naval Special Warfare Eric earned a scholarship to Duke University, Task Unit Manda Bay in the Horn of Africa. In where he took up boxing. He also participated 2005-2006, he served as a White House Fellow in humanitarian missions overseas, working with under President George W. Bush, and in 2006, refugee and orphan children in Croatia and Bos- he deployed to Iraq for his fourth tour of duty, as nia, with Rwandan children and families who the commander of an al-Qaeda targeting cell in survived the genocide, and with children of the Fallujah.
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