{"id":62,"date":"2015-08-05T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2020-01-23T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T15:34:15","slug":"employee-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/employee-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"TMI Employee Spotlight August 2015 – Oscar Garland"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSCAR GARLAND
\nPurchasing\/Shipping and Receiving<\/p>\n

Oscar was born in New Haven CT. His father was a P38 fighter pilot and after active service he remained in the reserves. Oscar’s family moved around a bit when he was a child landing in Reddington Beach Florida for his teenage years.\u00a0 Oscar was a \u00a0Florida State Barefoot Water Skiing Champion.\u00a0 Always ambitious, through his junior high and high school years, Oscar worked on the beach renting chairs and umbrellas to the tourists.<\/p>\n

After high school Oscar was drafted into the U.S. Army, proudly serving his country and earning the Bronze Star for Meritorious Service.\u00a0 Those who know Oscar well understand that service to his country is a part of his life of which \u00a0Oscar is most proud.\u00a0 After two years in Vietnam Oscar returned to civilian life,\u00a0 continuing his education at St Petersburg College in Florida.<\/p>\n

After college Oscar headed west to Houston TX, working as a rigger on Ocean Builder One<\/a> , an enormous \u00a0pipe-lay crane vessel used to setup offshore oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 Eventually Oscar found himself heading ashore, earning his real estate broker\u2019s license and working as a loan officer until the downturn of the economy within the Houston area.<\/p>\n

Texas\u2019 loss is TMI\u2019s gain as Oscar found his way to Savannah where he had (and still has) many friends and connections in the marine industry, working at 3124 River drive since 1993.\u00a0\u00a0 He enjoys \u00a0working in materials handling and taking on any of the challenges presented in meeting our client\u2019s needs.\u00a0\u00a0 Oscar loves the friendly small town atmosphere of Savannah.\u00a0 He loves meeting people and in his free time he takes advantage of all that Savannah offers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OSCAR GARLAND Purchasing\/Shipping and Receiving Oscar was born in New Haven CT. His father was a P38 fighter pilot and after active service he remained in the reserves. Oscar’s family moved around a bit when he was a child landing in Reddington Beach Florida for his teenage years.\u00a0 Oscar was a \u00a0Florida State Barefoot Water […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thunderboltmarine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}