Lester Mungro (G’24) has wanted to join the USArmy and earn a commission as an officer for as long as he can remember. The military lifestyle runs in his family. Mungro’s grandfather fought in the Vietnam War. His father also served in the Army, as well as his uncle. Even his wife is an Army sergeant, but no one in his family has been an officer in the military. It was Mungro’s father who pushed and inspired him to join the Army as an officer and build upon his family’s tradition. “That would be the one lesson I say that he taught me, and it stuck, to be better than the person that came before you,” Mungro said. “If they climb from one to three, don’t start at one. Start at four and just keep going. It’s one of the best things he taught me, and I want to teach that to my kids and set them up to be better than me.” That lesson from his father is what motivated Mungro to join an Army ROTC program when he first enrolled at Austin Peay State University in 2015. But when his wife became ...