[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 187 (Friday, December 2, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1210]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING MARSEY RANDALL

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, December 2, 2022

  Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor a 
hero, Marsey Randall. Randall has shown what can be done through hard 
work, dedication, and a desire to achieve success. Marsey Randall, a 
Jackson, MS, native, came from a military family. She was reared up in 
Pearl, MS, and was a member of the very first Reserve Officer Training 
Corp (ROTC) class at Pearl High School in 1986.
  Randall joined the Navy in 1990 and remained on active duty for four 
years. Her first duty station was in Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, 
serving in the Signalman rating, which later merged with Quartermaster, 
and ultimately to Boatswain's Mate. She served as a deck seaman on 
tugboats escorting ships in and out of port, and ferrying passengers, 
including distinguished visitors (VIPs). She then transferred to USNS 
Guadalupe (TAO 200), a West Coast underway replenishment oiler, and 
served out her enlistment there.
  Seven years after her enlistment ended, she joined the Naval Reserves 
in October 2001, and was attached to the Navy Operational Support 
Center (NOSC) Meridian and would often drill in Gulfport. Very 
interesting timing for sure. That was just a month after September 11, 
2001. She was assigned to the Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support 
Group and then on extended deployment to the middle east. She spent the 
better part of three years (2006-2008) at Mohammed Al-Ahmad Kuwait 
Naval Base and U.S Army Installation Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, which 
accommodates elements of the Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Coast 
Guard, in addition to military personnel from the United Kingdom, 
Poland, Romania, Australia, and Canada. Randall received predeployment 
training at Naval Base Norfolk in Norfolk, VA, and at Fort Eustis in 
Newport News, VA.
  Randall and other Battalion staff were trained in the use of weapons, 
driving tactical vehicles, first aid, small unit tactics, hand-to-hand 
combat, and the procedures and standards required of items and 
personnel re-entering the United States from overseas. That training 
earned her a certification as a Customs Border Clearance Agent.
  When not deployed, Randall continued her formal education and earned 
a bachelor's degree in early childhood education and family planning in 
2011 from Jackson State University. Even while she was in the Reserves, 
she continued educating young people. She began a twenty-year teaching 
career in California and completed it back in Mississippi. She also 
served as an independent contractor assisting elderly people with 
transportation and health needs.
  Around that time, she began to think seriously about starting her own 
business. When the pandemic hit, the idea to open a Rage Room made 
perfect sense because it was needed--so much frustration and anguish, 
so many people needed to vent. Whether from unresolved anger, 
depression, anxiety, grief, or trauma, the Rage Room has become an 
outlet to express such pain by breaking objects in a room.
   Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in recognizing Marsey 
Randall for her service in the U.S. Navy and for being an exemplary 
citizen in the state of Mississippi.

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