Hillsboro soldier Joshua Mahan meets Defense Secretary Panetta
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Hillsboro High School graduate and American soldier Joshua Mahan met Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta during Panetta's recent visit to Afghanistan.
Panetta honored Mahan by adding a Secretary of Defense coin to his collection of high-ranking military personnel coins.
Mahan is currently serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, where he is a member of the 1-77 Service Battery.
He is the son of Tom and Joanna Mahan and the grandson of Gary and Lois Drake and Clifford and Beulah Mahan.
Panetta was sworn in as the 23rd secretary of defense on July 1, 2011.
Before joining the Department of Defense, Panetta served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from February 2009 to June 2011. He led the agency and managed human intelligence and open source collection programs on behalf of the intelligence community.
Before joining CIA, he spent 10 years co-directing with his wife, Sylvia, the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay. The Institute is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit center that seeks to instill in young men and women the virtues and values of public service. He served as an Army intelligence officer from 1964 to 1966 and received the Army Commendation Medal.[[In-content Ad]]
Panetta honored Mahan by adding a Secretary of Defense coin to his collection of high-ranking military personnel coins.
Mahan is currently serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in Paktika Province, Afghanistan, where he is a member of the 1-77 Service Battery.
He is the son of Tom and Joanna Mahan and the grandson of Gary and Lois Drake and Clifford and Beulah Mahan.
Panetta was sworn in as the 23rd secretary of defense on July 1, 2011.
Before joining the Department of Defense, Panetta served as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency from February 2009 to June 2011. He led the agency and managed human intelligence and open source collection programs on behalf of the intelligence community.
Before joining CIA, he spent 10 years co-directing with his wife, Sylvia, the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy, based at California State University, Monterey Bay. The Institute is a nonpartisan, not-for-profit center that seeks to instill in young men and women the virtues and values of public service. He served as an Army intelligence officer from 1964 to 1966 and received the Army Commendation Medal.[[In-content Ad]]