Jack is a retired Army Veteran, with 14 years of active duty and 12 1/2 years with the IA Army National Guard. Jack spend the majority of his time serving in Armor and Cavalry units, with the last 5 years in MI. Jack joined the VFW in August of 2004, when he came back from deployment and was signed up by the Wisconsin VFW. Jack spend 4 years as a At-Large member before joining Post 9668 in 2008. Since then he has been Post commander for 5 years (2009-2012, 2016-2018) and Post Adjutant, while holding  JVC, and SVC positions. Jack also has been the VFW IA 5th District Deputy Post Inspector (2012-2018) and District QM (2015-2017). He is the current 5th District Adjutant and current District Post Inspector. Jack is in his 3 year as Department Sergeant-At-Arms and has been a member of the Department Color Guard for 4 years.