“I went to college for two years for exercise science, and decided that it really wasn’t my thing,” said Staff Sgt. Melissa Tillison, a petroleum supply sergeant with the 310th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) in Indianapolis. “After two years my scholarship money ran out, and I had to pay for college somehow, so I joined the Reserve.”
Now on her second enlistment in the Reserve, and with a bachelor’s degree and successful civilian career, Staff Sgt. Tillison realizes she received much more than college tuition.
“I stay in the Reserve because I have met a lot of great people,” Tillison said. “I pretty much have friends in every state.”
It is easy to see how Tillison, a native of Shelbyville, Indiana, has...
