| Joe Scarpill was a member of the fire company for almost 3 years before going into the service in March 1992. Joe attained his state firefighter certification test on his 18th birthday. Joe has been in the Army for just over 21 years. He started his career in the military as a diesel mechanic and after 10 years he applied to become a Warrant Officer.
Joe is a technical expert in vehicle maintenance and manages the maintenance on a fleet of equipment ranging from HMMWV's to M1 Abrams Tanks.
Joe has been deployed to Kuwait and Iraq five times. He spent three years (Sept. 2009 to July 2012) at Fort Dix, training National Guard and Reservists who were getting ready to deploy overseas. CW4 Scarpill is currently the commander of the Headquarter Company for the Warrant Officer Career College, at Fort Rucker, AL. where they train enlisted members to be warrant officers and also train senior warrant officers on different staff functions within a unit.
Joe has about 35 military and 40 civilian instructors under his command. They teach subjects like, history of the warrant officer, operational environment, leadership, military history and much more.
Joe is married to his wife Tanya, and has been married since April 1994, Joe & Tanya have 4 children, Bryce 25, Cameron 22, Cierra 16, Torin 5. They also had custody of Tanya's little brother and little sister Ariel 21 and Shilo 18. Joe is also a grandfather with his son Bryce having a baby girl, 19 month old Kylie. Joe's son Cameron is a SGT in the Kentucky National Guard and just returned from a deployment to Africa this past June.
Congratulations on a job well done CW4 Joe Scarpill! |
