Patrick Wiesner on Homeland Security

	Patrick Wiesner on Homeland Security

Served 21 years in military; 3 years in Iraq & Afghanistan

In 2014, Patrick retired as a US Army Reserve Judge Advocate (the military term for attorney) with the rank of Major. He had over 21 years of military service, all as a reservist.

His military career started out by enlisting in the Naval Reserves; he joined the Army as a direct commission First Lieutenant assigned to the team at Fort Leavenworth. This duty included travel throughout western Kansas working to prepare Army Reserve units for deployments by drafting wills and powers of attorneys for soldiers and giving instructions of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, reemployment rights, and the law of war.

He has served on three year-long deployments; twice to Iraq and once to Afghanistan. In his two Iraq deployments, he gave legal opinions on Army requests to use the Iraqi Security Forces Fund to train and equip the Iraqi army, police, and border patrol.

Source: 2016 Kansas Senate campaign website, WiesnerForSenate.com , Apr 1, 2016

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