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Michael T. LoGiudice (1970)

Michael LoGiudice moved to Woodburn in 1976. As a young boy, he became a big fan of Soccer and played through High School. Michael LoGiudice attended FCS during his middle school years and participated in track and field, basketball and continued to play Soccer. Michael LoGiudice is from a large Italian family, he was 7 of 8. He worked various jobs almost as quickly as he learned to ride a bike. Establishing an early work ethic, by the age of 10 he was selling the "Grit" newspaper door-to-door. Not being very successful at door-to-door sales, he turned to larger, more recognizable newspapers. He was hired to deliver the 'Statesman Journal', a Salem based newspaper. After doing that for several years, he added another local newspaper to his resume; the Woodburn Independent. He continued working various jobs, Roy's Bike Shop, Young Street Market, Coleman Farm, Oregon Bulb Farm, Burger King. In 1988, one day before his 18th birthday he graduated from Woodburn High School, shortly after moving to Scotts Mills. He continues to work in the Woodbuen area until he enlisted in the USMC. The military does not allow recruits to ship to 'bootcamp' with any sort of orthodontics, so hhe had to wait about 18 months to ship out, heading to MCRD, Marine Corps Recruit Depot. MCRD is the West Coast Bootcamp for Marine Basic Training. Bootcamp is 3 months long and he successfully graduated in mid1990. All Marines are combat trained and must attend MCT, he continues onto SOI, and ARC. Upon graduation, your MOS, military occupational specialty is assigned. I was assigned an Infantry MOS. After MCT, he immediately started SOI. MCT and SOI was located on Camp Pendleton, California, just outside of Oceanside, California. During SOI, a Recon representative came down to SOI and spoke about opportunities to serve in 1st Recon Bn. Out of 20 other Marines, seven Marines made it and he was now headed down an exciting new career. Assigned to a reconnaissance unit and his first professional military school ARC, Amphibous Reconnaissance Course at Camp Coronado, just South of San Diego. ARC was a gut check, sleep deprivation, patrolling, long class room hours and countless hours of swimming in the ocean. Thank God he grew up with a love of the water. Making it through Recon School was not easy, but he made it through. Having served honorably for seven years in the USMC and deployed to many countries, some not so pleasant. Honorably discharged in 1997. Within 30 days of discharge, he enlisted in the CO Army National Guard and signed up to be a Medic. After only a short stint in Colorado, he moved to NJ to follow his family. Settling in Long Branch, NJ. The neighborhood was blighted by the town and they took all the homes. While residing in NJ, he took up several occupations; Mechanic; a customer service rep; electrician. He started his first handyman business. He managed to work, attend college using the Montgomery GI Bill and Army National Guard Tuition Assistance. At some point, he made a conscious decision to go back to school and become a chiropractor. His grandfather was a chiropractor...perhaps the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Having researched the fuled and in doing so making few friends that were chiropractors, it seemed like great occupation, get people better without drugs or surgery. Having served as an Army Medic, he had helped with surgies, gave many vaccinations, practiced phebotomy, and helped with atopsies. Applying to getting accepted at the University of Bridgeport, College of Chiropractic.

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