[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 208 (Thursday, December 2, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1305]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              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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