AUGUSTA
– On Thursday, Sen. Bill Diamond, D-Windham, welcomed Commander Michael Wisecup,
USN, Ret., to the Maine Senate for the day. Sen. Diamond and Commander Wisecup
took the picture below in the Senate Chamber immediately following the day’s
legislative session.
Commander
Wisecup, who retired from the Navy in Nov. 2018, graduated from the US Naval
Academy in 1998 and received a Master of Business Administration from the
Indian Institute for Technology in Mumbai, India. He was deployed multiple
times to Iraq, Afghanistan, and across Africa and Asia on military operational
assignments on SEAL Teams 1, 5 and 8 and Special Boat Team 12. He also had
various staff assignments at home and abroad, including most recently serving
as Deputy Commander of Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Iraq.
Commander Wisecup has received the Meritorious Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal
with Valor, Purple Heart, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service
Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Joint Service
Achievement Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, Navy and Marine
Corps Combat Action Ribbon, and various other unit, campaign and personal
citations. He is currently a Presidential Leadership Fellow at Colby College in
Waterville.
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