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Lt. Col. Stacey Walker presents Patty Kessler, spouse of Master Sgt. Tim Kessler, with a Certificate of Appreciation signed by the Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley thanking her for more than three decades of supporting Master Sgt. Kessler’s military service.

•October 3, 2018•

Master Sgt. Tim Kessler of Mode, Illinois, has retired from the Illinois Army National Guard after 34 years of service in which he attained seven different military jobs, deployed to Afghanistan and to Germany, earned the Soldiers Medal for saving a woman from a toxic gas leak and served on multiple state activations including the Great Flood of 1993.
Kessler has been a mainstay in the 634th Brigade Support Battalion, said Lt. Col. Stacey Walker, Commander of the 634th Brigade Support Battalion based in Sullivan.
“When I first joined this unit as a platoon leader many years ago, there was Master Sgt. Kessler. Then, years later, when I came back as Commander, there was Master Sgt. Kessler.”
Kessler’s knowledge and expertise with the 634th BSB and with his previous unit, B Co., 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment based in Effingham, was invaluable to the officers of those units as well as the hundreds of soldiers he mentored over the years, Walker said.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.