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HONORING THE LIFE AND SERVICE OF DAVE FOSTER
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HON. DIANA HARSHBARGER
of tennessee
in the house of representatives
Thursday, December 2, 2021
Mrs. HARSHBARGER. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.) Dave Foster who is retiring as the superintendent of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site and the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery in Greeneville, Tennessee.
Before joining the National Park Service in 2009, he served twenty-
one years in the United States Marine Corps with deployments to Kuwait, Iraq, and the Horn of Africa in support of the global war on terrorism. While in the military, he held leadership assignments at the company and battalion levels and retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Dave began his National Park Service career as a subject-to-furlough maintenance worker at the Blue Ridge Parkway and has since served as a maintenance worker, utility systems operator, maintenance supervisor and facility manager on the Parkway. In 2014, he was selected by his peers to receive the class leadership award upon graduation from the Facility Manager Leaders Program. He attributes his success to the professional and dedicated teams he has worked with both at the Blue Ridge Parkway and the Andrew Johnson Historical Site. He said, ``as a veteran, I am especially humbled by the privilege of overseeing one of the final resting places for our nation's heroes.''
Born in western North Carolina, Dave holds a bachelor's degree in education from the University of South Carolina and a master's degree in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College. He and his wife Terri reside in Bedford, VA, and they have two children: Autumn and Brian.
Madam Speaker, Dave Foster, has served our country faithfully, first as a Marine across the world and later as an exemplary employee and leader in our National Park Service. I thank him for his service and congratulate him on his upcoming retirement in January of 2022.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 208
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