SAN DIEGO — Petty Officer 3rd Class Meredith Lingerfelt, a native of Glenwood City, Wisconsin, serves the U.S. Navy at ...

eventually joining a battalion with the Navy Seabees as a steelworker. In 1992, he was deployed to Mogadishu, Somalia. "Things kind of spiraled out of control there," said Kost. "I had some things ...