Veterans’ stories: Master Sgt. Marty Pendergraft

Posted November 12, 2009 at 2:16 pm and filed under Community. Updated November 24, 2009 at 3:31 pm.

Master Sgt. Marty Pendergraft, U.S. Army, is stationed at Fort Bragg with the 1st Battalion, 311th Regiment, 189th Infantry Brigade. He is a 1979 graduate of Garner Senior High School and of Johnston Community College with a degree in police science.

Master Sgt. Marty Pendergraft

Master Sgt. Marty Pendergraft

Pendergraft began his career as a military policeman with the 805th Military Police Company within the Army Reserves of Raleigh in April 1980. He has completed tours at Fort Carson, Colo., and Subic Bay, Philippines. He transitioned into an infantry instructor and was stationed in Charlotte with the 108th Division, teaching map reading and land navigation to basic trainees at Fort Jackson, S.C.

In 1994 he returned to the Military Police Corps as a military police instructor and a basic and advanced noncommissioned officer course instructor. Pendergraft has instructed soldiers across the country at Fort Dix, N.J., Fort McClellan, Ala., Fort Gordon, Ga., Fort Jackson, S.C. and Fort Hunter-Liggett, Calif.

Pendergraft was deployed with the 4th Det. of the XVIII Airborne Corps of Fort Bragg to Baghdad, Iraq.  He was responsible for tracking the Iraqi security forces and ensuring their ammo, weapons, fuel, bottled water and uniform needs were being met. This helped ensure the Iraqis were best equipped for meeting the insurgents and tracking the replenishment of such equipment.

For the past two years, Pendergraft has been an observer controller trainer while instructing the soldiers, sailors and airmen who train at Forth Bragg and Camp Atterbury, Ind., prior to their deployment to Afghanistan as a PRT team. These PRTs are embedded with InterAgency personnel from the state department, justice department, agriculture department and USAID to work with the development of the local Afghan people with the province they are assigned.

“It has been a real honor to wear the uniform and serve this great country and especially to be able to teach and mentor fellow warriors along the way and prior to their service to this great nation,” Pendergraft said.

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