Vinn Strupp Family: Ranching and military service

Vinn & Debbie Strupp Vinn Strupp has been a rancher most of his life. He grew up on a western ranch, attended college for a year, then joined the Navy and became a machine repairman on a ship for four years. Later, he worked in a couple of states on various ranches before he and his wife Debbie came back to the ranch. At one time they had 250 sheep, but have cattle now. They also raised 4 children, and 3 of them have been in the military. Their son Vinn Adam spent 22 years in the Navy and retired last year to come back to the ranch. His wife Jennifer was also military.Vinn Adam helped on the ranch growing up but wanted to see the world. “I joined the Navy because my father and uncle had been in the Navy. My sister joined the Air Force, and my brother was in the Army, but I thought I could do more traveling in the Navy and see more places,” he says. “I was an electrician in the Navy.

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