A local of Lake Linden, Michigan, Capt. Strieter enlisted in the USA Navy in 1995. Her enlisted excursions embrace Nuclear Area Digital Technician A-school, Nuclear Energy Faculty, Naval Nuclear Energy Coaching Unit and aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, serving within the Reactor Controls Division the place she certified as reactor operator and shutdown reactor operator. She enlisted earlier than finishing her school schooling.
Capt. Strieter selected the Lincoln Memorial as the location for her promotion due to the respect she has for him regardless of his lack of a proper schooling.
“President Lincoln is considered one of my favourite folks and one of many issues I like about him is he was self-educated and self-motivated to make himself higher,” mentioned Capt. Strieter. “He didn’t want a proper schooling to turn out to be President of the USA. I believed, ‘Hey, if he might do this, I can do something I would like.’”
Capt. Strieter later graduated from Michigan Technological College in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering. She was chosen for Officer Candidate Faculty within the Civil Engineer Corps and was commissioned as an ensign in July of 2000. She earned a Grasp of Engineering in undertaking administration from the College of Maryland in Could of 2009.
Rear Adm. Aguayo took observe of Capt. Strieter’s ambition and shared a quote from the sixteenth President of the USA.
“President Lincoln mentioned, ‘I don’t assume a lot of a person,’ or on this case a girl, ‘who isn’t wiser at the moment than she was yesterday,’” mentioned Rear Adm. Aguayo. “So, that’s what Juli stored doing. Daily, difficult herself and studying extra. She by no means stops.”
As an officer, Capt. Strieter’s excursions embrace deployment to the Center East in help of Operation Iraqi Freedom as Charlie Firm commander and assistant coaching officer with Naval Cell Development Battalion FOUR. In 2014, she had the excellence of being the primary everlasting get together stationed at Naval Help Facility Deveselu, Romania, and was on the forefront of the institution of the Navy’s first new set up in over 20 years. She later served because the Amenities Sustainment, Restoration and Modernization analyst to the employees of the Chief of Naval Operations and oversaw all features from programming by means of execution of sustainment and recapitalization throughout the Navy’s $305 billion shore enterprise.
Taking measure of her spectacular profession to this point, Rear Adm. Aguayo acknowledged Capt. Strieter’s household and her spouse, Monica.
“[Sailors] don’t do that alone. We want our household help. All the prolonged household, all of you, play an element on this. Your love and help for Monica and Juli are important to their success. Monica, I wish to thanks particularly. There may be lots of sacrifice that comes with this and I do know you might have been there to assist Juli each step of the best way.”
Capt. Strieter follows in her household’s custom of Naval service. Her father was an aviation ordnanceman who served on the USS Forrestal in the course of the Vietnam Conflict and was aboard in the course of the hearth catastrophe in 1967. Her uncle, Ted Strieter, who was in attendance, served for 28 years as a Navy boiler technician. Along with her household, the ceremony was properly attended by her Navy household, a lot of whom are Seabees.
“Within the Lincoln Memorial, a phrase is engraved from his Second Inaugural. ‘With malice towards none with charity for all.’ That’s similar to the inscription on the Seabee Memorial, which reads, ‘With compassion for others, we construct, we struggle for peace with freedom,’ mentioned Capt. Strieter. “I believe that matches.”
