This Sunday, Shelby County Assistant District Attorney Michael McCusker will join his U.S. Army National Guard Unit and report for active duty at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
McCusker is a Captain in the 3rd Battalion, 115th Field Artillery, which was activated by President Bush on August 19, 2002 to support the War on Terrorism. He will take part in homeland defense and security for the next 365 days as part of “Operation Noble Eagle.”
As an assistant district attorney assigned to Shelby County General Sessions Court Division 12, McCusker prosecutes domestic violence cases. He has worked in the District Attorney General’s Office for a little more than one year.
“We will miss Mike’s public service as a prosecutor,” said District Attorney General Bill Gibbons. “But we are proud of his public service to the country as a member of the National Guard,” General Gibbons added.
“I’m ready,” said McCusker, although he will be leaving his wife, Theresa McCusker, who is also a Shelby County Assistant District Attorney, and their 4-month-old child.
McCusker has been a soldier in the Army National Guard for 17 years. He joined the Army Reserves when he was just 17-years-old. While on active duty, he will command a battery of approximately 102 soldiers.
He will leave Saturday for Fort Bragg and will spend three weeks there preparing
the battalion, before they are moved to another domestic location.
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