[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 80 (Wednesday, May 16, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E658-E659]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CONGRATULATING GUNNERY SERGEANT JEREMY L. LONG ON HIS RETIREMENT

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                            HON. PETE OLSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 16, 2018

  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the United States Congress, it 
is an honor for me to rise today in recognition of the forthcoming 
retirement of Gunnery Sergeant Jeremy L. Long on June 30, 2018.
  GySgt Jeremy Long has served the United States Marine Corps with 
honor and distinction for twenty years. A career of such longevity in 
support of our national security is, in itself, an accomplishment 
worthy of recognition. GySgt Long has accomplished extraordinary 
achievements during his exceptional career that demands more than just 
recognition of a grateful nation. He has earned the respect of 
countless fellow Marines that have benefited from his leadership and 
technical expertise in six different military occupational specialties 
and the adulation of millions, who he has never met, but who benefited 
from his service nonetheless.
  Jeremy Long's Human Intelligence occupational specialty put him 
directly into harm's way on multiple deployments into the most 
dangerous battlefields of his generation. GySgt Long deployed to Iraq 
three times. First to Mahmudiyyah in 2003, then Husaybah in 2004 and 
again in 2005 with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special 
Operations Capable). Later, he deployed to Afghanistan three more 
times. First, with the 1st Marine Special Operations Battalion (MSOB) 
in 2007 to Helmand Province, again in 2009 with the 1st MSOB in 2009 
and finally with the Special Operations Task Force-81 in 2012.

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  GySgt Long has served his country in some of the most dangerous 
places in the world. He has also dedicated significant effort 
developing the necessary skills that enabled him to be an enormous 
asset and enabler for the units he served. For example, he spent 52 
weeks learning the Pashtu language, an extremely difficult language to 
learn. He attended other schools such as the very intense and difficult 
Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape course (SERE), Technical 
Surveillance Sciences Course, the Close Quarters Battle courses and 
Electronic Surveillance courses.
  Finally, as a Command Counterintelligence Staff Officer assigned to 
the Marine Corps Embassy Security Group, he has conducted multiple 
counterintelligence site visits to Marine Corps Security Guard 
Detachments in places like Moscow, Russia; Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 
Freetown, Sierra Leone; and Bridgetown, Barbados.
  Over the course of 20 years of dedicated service, GySgt Long has 
repeatedly demonstrated honor and dedication indicative of a great 
Marine and American hero. His valiant efforts both across oceans in 
enemy territory as well as here at home have helped to protect and 
shape our nation. On behalf of the United States Congress, and the 
American people we represent, I extend my deep appreciation to Gunnery 
Sergeant Jeremy L. Long for his service to our country. My best wishes 
on a happy retirement and continued success.

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