A greater mission: Army vet’s career exceeds expectations

As big as New York City is, with its huge population and layers of culture, it wasn’t enough to contain Felix Figueroa. As a very young man he had a sense there was something beyond the boroughs of the Big Apple awaiting him.“What got me off of the couch and into the recruiters office,” Figueroa said, was a desire to explore life beyond “the surroundings of the city. I needed to get out of there.”The Army was a tradition in his family.

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