HOFER HONORED AS LAKE ANDES VETERAN OF THE MONTH

Tyler Hofer is being honored as Lake Andes’ November Veteran of the Month. Hofer is a Veteran of the Iraq War. He first enlisted in the United States Navy in 2004 after graduating from Andes Central. Hofer then attended Recruit Training Command (also known as Navy boot camp) at the Naval Station Great Lakes in Great Lakes, IL for ten weeks. After graduating from boot camp, Hofer was then sent to the Naval Construction Training Center Gulfport in Gulfport, MS. There he began his “A School” training to be a part of the United States Naval Construction Battalion, better known as “Seabees”. The official motto of the Seabees is “We Build, We Fight”. Hofer was specifically trained as a naval steel worker, which included building, fabricating, cutting and welding steel in the building of buildings, bridges, tanks and towers for the Navy.