NORWICH – 2016 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Operation Desert Storm, the middle east conflict in which more than 600,000 United States service members took part in the largest deployment of U.S. Armed Forces since Vietnam.

Craig Hackett, then a Specialist from Norwich was one of those who left friends and family behind to serve our nation and secure a victory for freedom.

On Memorial Day of this year, Hackett, who now serves as a Sargent at the Chenango County Correctional Facility, will march alongside more than 500 Gulf War veterans in the American Veterans Center’s National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, DC.