So, he decided to try the Tennessee Highway Patrol.
“While I was there, I applied at police and sheriff’s departments and it turned out again to be that it’s who you know and I didn’t get a job. So, he took a job at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail in Abingdon and worked there for three years. “It was too political and I didn’t know the right people,” he said. He wanted to be in the coal mining industry but the collapse of that work got him thinking about being a game warden. He was honorably discharged in 2010, came home, enrolled at Emory & Henry University and earned degrees in environmental sciences and geography. When the ramp went down and we unloaded, bullets were whizzing past our heads and we were taking machine gun fire and grenades.” “My first time going in our unit was on a C-130 flying into the Baghdad airport and we were taking fire as we were coming in to land. He was deployed twice to Iraq – in 20 – a combat infantryman on fire teams. The day after graduation in 2003 he reported to Parris Island, S.C., to begin what would be a six-year hitch in the U.S. His father owned a landscaping business and his mother cleaned houses. Powers graduated from Patrick Henry High in Emory, Virginia, but was reared in the small rural community of Meadowview. He also has a stepdaughter, Adalyn, who is 8. He and wife Santana adopted a little boy, Landon Reed, in Virginia and brought him home to Halls this weekend.
He’s a very humble kid.”įor the next few weeks, he is on family leave. He always has our goals and objectives in mind. Eric Miller, his direct supervisor in Troop A, says the young trooper is on track. He spends the majority of his time in Knox County. He’s assigned to Knox and Union counties in Troop A of the East Tennessee District. Powers has been a trooper for only two years, but this 34-year-old native of Abingdon, Virginia, has seen plenty already. The evening before our interview he stopped a 16-year-old driving 103 mph on the same section of Pellissippi Parkway and the night before that a man flew past him going a mere 90. He also left her with some legal paperwork – citations for speeding, reckless driving, driving on a suspended license, no seatbelt and other minor charges. I got her out of the car and gave her a good talking to about what she was doing and what can happen at those speeds.” “I guess I was a little surprised that a woman would be going that fast at that time of the night.
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“It was a car full of women and the driver was in her 30s and she wasn’t drinking – just in a hurry for some reason I didn’t really understand when she tried to explain it all to me,” Powers said. “I just wanted to get them stopped before they killed themselves or someone else,” he said.
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