Decades of duty

Submitted photoBryan Steven poses with his daughters Breanna and Neva after returning from a deployment in Antarctica.
Bryan Steven graduated from Forest Lake High Area School in 1984. Several years later, he felt called to join the Minnesota Air National Guard. That journey lasted 28 years.
“I felt like I needed something to do, and I wanted to help people,” he said. “I was working as an EMT and so I knew that those skills translated to something beyond just a traditional guardsman. I wanted to go into the medical field.”broadstreet.zone(48036);
Steven worked as a flight medic, and as such, he traveled often. His first assignment was as a part of Operation Desert Shield, and his last was a 49-day trip to Antarctica. His job was to assist in the returning of sick and wounded soldiers from foreign countries back to the U.S. He has evacuated service members from five different continents.
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