Got Heart Give Hope - Hope & Courage Award Recipient: SPC Hope Linder
SPC Hope LINDER, USA Hope enlisted in the Army on August 3, 1983. She was raised in a very strict home and tired of rules, so she walked away from a full ride scholarship to Penn State and joined the Army. Little did Hope know, the Army had even more rules and structure than her home. She went to Fort Dix, N.J., for boot camp and Fort Lee, Va., for her Advanced Individual Training (AIT) quartermaster school. Hope’s first duty station was Mannheim, Germany, where she earned many awards in the American/German Gun Club. After her time PCSing from Germany, Hope headed to Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz., and made Specialist-E4 after only being in for two years. Some of her other duty tours included Fort Hood, Texas, as well as Hawaii and Iraq. Hope is the proud mother of Ashley and four grandbabies: Carson (7), Daia (5), Ezra (3), and Fable (1).
SPC Hope LINDER, USA Hope enlisted in the Army on August 3, 1983. She was raised in a very strict home and tired of rules, so she walked away from a full ride scholarship to Penn State and joined the Army. Little did Hope know, the Army had even more rules and structure than her home. She went to Fort Dix, N.J., for boot camp and Fort Lee, Va., for her Advanced Individual Training (AIT) quartermaster school. Hope’s first duty station was Mannheim, Germany, where she earned many awards in the American/German Gun Club. After her time PCSing from Germany, Hope headed to Yuma Proving Grounds, Ariz., and made Specialist-E4 after only being in for two years. Some of her other duty tours included Fort Hood, Texas, as well as Hawaii and Iraq. Hope is the proud mother of Ashley and four grandbabies: Carson (7), Daia (5), Ezra (3), and Fable (1).