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Army Spec. Michael Hanley has returned to his base in Oahu, Hawaii, from his second tour in Iraq. He is a member of the 25th ID and will be transferring to Fort Drum early next year.
The son of Pat and Eddie Perales of Keeseville and Michael and Kim Hanley of West Chazy, he is married to Melissa Fitzwater, who serves in the Army Reserves. He is a 2004 graduate of AuSable Valley Central School.
Lt. Col. Carolyn S. Jacobson, daughter of Lincoln and Ann Sunderland of Peru, retired from the U.S. Air Force on Sept. 30.
Jacobson was commissioned in 1989 through the ROTC program at Clarkson University and entered the Air Force as a research and development engineer at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. She then cross-trained into civil engineering and completed her master's degree at the Air Force Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 2000, she served as construction services chief in Los Angeles, Calif., and as environmental flight commander in Lajes Field, Portugal, and Spangdahlem, Air Base, Germany.
In 2001, Jacobsen cross-trained a second time to become a bioenvironmental engineer. From 2001 to the present, she served as pollution program manager at the C-17 Special Programs Office at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio, and as commander of bioenvironmental engineer flights at Brooks AFB, Texas, and Scott AFB, Ill.
Jacobsen and her husband, Lt. Col. John Jacobsen, have two daughters, Helen, 9, and Greta, 6. Upon retirement, she and her daughters have joined her husband at Offutt AFB, Omaha, Neb. She is now employed by the federal government as a natural and cultural resources manager at Offutt AFB.
Capt. Geoffrey Glebus, son of Gary and Shelley Glebus of Schroon Lake, was among 101 students to graduate from West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, W.Va.
As valedictorian of his class, Capt. Glebus was the recipient of the President Olen E. Jones Achievement Award for academic excellence and commitment to service. In addition to membership in the Psi Sigma Alpha Honor Society and the Sigma Sigma Phi Honor Society, he served as the WVSOM national liaison for SOSA, Student Osteopathic Surgical Association. He received his traditional doctoral hood from mentor, Col. William Doukas, former chief of orthopaedic surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center.
Upon graduation, Capt. Glebus was selected to enter a five-year residency program in orthopedic surgery at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, where he and his wife, Rachel, currently reside with their three daughters, Tara, Elizabeth and Alexa.
Pvt. 2nd Class Theresa Christian has graduated from basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C.
The daughter of Michael and Lisa Christian of Plattsburgh, she is currently at Fort Gordon, Ga., training as a 25U signals support specialist. She graduated from Beekmantown Central School in 2008.
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