Hawarden, Iowa (Radio Iowa) — A Hawarden native is making waves nearly 10-thousand miles away on the small Island of Diego Garcia.
U-S Navy Lieutenant Commander Jeremy Huls became the officer in charge in May of the computer and naval support facility in the British Indian Ocean.
Huls oversees 95 people at the communications support facility which serves around 35-hundred people.
It is a unique assignment far away from family.
He says you can ask for a second year on the island, but that is rare due to its distance away from everything. Huls has been in the Navy for 16 years and prior to this assignment he was on the Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Virginia. Huls says their goal is to improve the communications, facilities and operations on the island that includes a project for the Department of Defense.
Huls is a 1999 graduate of West Sioux Community High School and a 2006 graduate of the University of Kansas. His wife Kelly is a 1998 graduate of West Sioux.
Photo caption: Jeremy Huls (left) takes over from previous commander Brian Baker.
