[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 8 (Tuesday, January 14, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Pages S189-S190]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            TRIBUTE TO LIEUTENANT COLONEL SARAH D. ECCLESTON

  Mr. TESTER. Madam President, I rise today to recognize LTC Sarah D. 
Eccleston for her exemplary dedication to duty and service to the U.S. 
Army and to the United States of America.
  Over the past year, she has served as the congressional analyst and 
congressional liaison in the Office of the Army Surgeon General.
  LTC Sarah Eccleston was born and raised in Dillon, MT, and began her 
Army service in 2001 as a cadet in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, 
ROTC.

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In 2004, she was commissioned as a distinguished military graduate from 
the University of Utah ROTC Program and received her bachelors of 
science degree in nursing from Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT.
  On her initial assignment as a lieutenant, she served as a staff 
nurse on a 32-bed multidisciplinary medical-surgical unit at the Carl 
R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, TX. She then attended the 
Critical Care Nurse Course at Brooke Army Medical Center, BAMC, in Fort 
Sam Houston, TX, where she began working as a clinical staff nurse in 
the surgical trauma intensive care unit at BAMC.
  In 2009, she deployed with the 10th Combat Support Hospital out of 
Fort Carson, CO, to Baghdad, Iraq, where she worked as a critical care 
nurse. Shortly thereafter, she began working as the 2nd Brigade ROTC 
nurse counselor at Fort Dix, NJ. She completed her time with ROTC in 
May of 2012 and was selected for long-term health education and 
training through Widener University, where she received a master's in 
nursing. After graduating as a critical care clinical nurse specialist, 
Lieutenant Colonel Eccleston was assigned to Madigan Army Medical 
Center in Fort Lewis, WA, where she oversaw policy and quality of 
practice in three intensive care units.
  Prior to her current assignment, in the summer of 2018, Lieutenant 
Colonel Eccleston was selected to serve as the executive nurse fellow 
to the Chief and Deputy Chief of the Army Nurse Corps.
  After graduating as a critical care clinical nurse specialist, 
Lieutenant Colonel Eccleston was assigned to Madigan Army Medical 
Center at Joint Base Fort Lewis-McChord, WA, where she oversaw policy 
and quality of practice in three intensive care units.
  Montanans and all Americans owe LTC Sarah Eccleston the deepest 
gratitude for her decade of active service to this Nation. I wish Sarah 
and her family all the best as they continue their journey of service.
  (At the request of Mr. Rounds, the following statement was ordered to 
be printed in the Record.)

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